Yes, Millennials also cost us the election.

[That Guy 888]

107. "they should have given it to Bernie"

Sanders was only "new" to the Democratic Party. If he ran as an independent or Green, Clinton would have lost the popular vote too. You and other Clinton supporters know that. Although it must be tantalizing to imagine having that clear cut spoiler so the party leadership can keep failing upwards.

Why didn't Hillary win? Because the neo-liberal DLC brand stinks on ice. Even the DLC knew it, or else they wouldn't rebrand every three or four years. Not enough voters buy it anymore. We understand that DLC Democrats will pander (in increasingly unconvincing ways) to various politically identified sub-groups (don't forget your bottle of hot sauce). The only group they are truly loyal to are their financial backers. Had she been elected President, she undoubtedly would have continued Obama's policies - John King Jr. would have been replaced by another education privatization Education Secretary who cancels public meetings, there would be perhaps a different Goldman-Sachs executive as Treasury Secretary. It's the "fiscally conservative" side of the "New Democrats".

I'd ask why the Democratic Party Leadership is so clueless, but I already know. Cash is king - ideas don't matter. Beltway conventional thinking in all it's forms (if you want to be serious about finance, you have to be conservative). Rice bowl politics (I see Debbie Wassermann-Schultz as this election's Joe Lieberman - defending the unforgivable). "It's _______ turn", think Scott Brown's election(or Trump's for that matter).