Cited in the post above, with some analytics behind it too.
I do understand the argument you are making and don't dismiss it. That is what I meant when I said your only real counter argument is "well, maybe those voters weren't going to vote for Hillary ANYWAYS." That could be accurate, and there is a degree of support that shows at least some of those voters weren't big fans of Obama and may have just been looking for an "outsider".... but whether or not they would have voted for Trump anyways, voted for Hillary or voted for someone else isn't something the data answers.
We just know that a lot of voters who supported Bernie in the Dem primaries either stayed home, voted for Stein, or voted for Trump. In the three states that mattered (and Florida too), that number is greater than the number of votes Trump won by. So you CERTAINLY can't dismiss the impact that Bernie voters who did not vote for Clinton had on the election and call it "fake news." Although I do also fully understand that Bernie's a clever propagandist in his own right and that's the story his camp has been pimping for the last three years.
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Posted: 02/19/2020 at 4:42PM