What's with the slurs, dude? It's not helping your argument. I'm not bitter, just not enthused for at best another 4 years of obstructionist strongly partisan politics instead of working to reverse the gridlock over every single thing, no matter how inconsequential.
Furthermore, I didn't say anything of the sort that Sanders had widsepread appeal. I stated how he was the strong favorite amongst independent voters whereas Clinton was favored amonst your rank-and-file Democratic party member. The demographics of his supporters are largely, but not limited to, young people, those who lean further to the left than the Democratic platform, and are mostly white. It was going to be a hard fight for him to win the nomination from the start, but it's incorrect for you to assume it was a ROFLstomp seeing how he was polling at 3% months ago nobody took him as a serious contender, but then he went on to win numerous states.
Another phenomenon that was observed was multiple problems inherent in the primary systems to the extent that people in bother parties were wishing they had the system of their opponent. Republican candidates were dissatisfied with winner-take-all states that allowed Trump to gain a commanding lead in delegates while they received jack shit because they did not come in first overall. Democratic candidates (let's be honest, except Clinton) were frustrated by superdelegates and other quirks and rules that meant even if they won, they could potentially earn less delegates than the person in second or third.
I know Indiana went blue in 2008. Even my parents voted for Obama because of Palin poisoning McCains ticket. You'll recall, however, that it did not in 2012. Clinton is not 2008 Barack Obama. I'd be very pleased if we no longer had the electoral college, because as I stated, by and large my vote will not matter to the overall result. Unfortunately, we do have that system and first-past-the-post voting as well, so I will vote for the candidate I like, not the candidate I least dislike.
