Horsey: President Sanders? Bernie would have beaten Trump

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71. I wonder if he would have been able to carry my state, NY, given the way

people here feel about him. The upstaters he won in the primary wound up solidly with Trump. And Sanders, even before any opposition research campaigns, struggled with woman, Blacks, and Latinos.

And, of course, this was even before the press and Republicans gave him a close look. I can only imagine how damaged he would have been by the "environmental racist" campaign that the Republicans were planning to wage against him. Jill Stein would have worked as hard against him as she did against Clinton.

There are also some questions as to exactly what Roger Stone and Wikileaks were holding against him. His unwillingness to leave a race that it was impossible for him to win, the purchase of a luxe vacation home (outside of his home state) after the convention, and his absence from the general election campaign were all signs that he may have been being manipulated by outside operatives.

You're also assuming that any untoward circumstance that affected Hillary would not have also affected Sanders as well. There were no early voting sites on or near any college campus in Wisconsin. Many PA voters found themselves purged from the voting rolls due to new laws concerning inactivity. (I spent weekends in September and October helping to re-register some of those people.) And, of course, the Detroit mess would have hurt our side no matter who was on the ticket.

http://patch.com/michigan/detroit/michigan-vote-recount-half-detroit-ballots-may-not-qualify