I and another over other analysts have already argued that it's not true that Bernie would have done better to go negative earlier.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/greg-sargent-weighs-in-on-bernies.html
It's the nature of campaigns that hindsight is always going to be 20-20.
"Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, is telling the New York Times that Sanders refused to spend more time on the road in the early days of the campaign, insisting on heading back to the Senate too often. Ted Devine, the top strategist for the campaign, is saying that Sanders insisted on only doing large rallies and had little interest in interacting one-on-one with locals when they would approach him in diners. Cornel West, a surrogate for the campaign, is blaming Sanders for not reaching out to minority voters sooner."
"Sanders confidants are now complaining exhaustively about all the ways in which they believe he would have had a better chance of winning if he had followed their advice. Weaver and Devine both wanted him to go negative against Clinton much earlier, even though his recent willingness to do so has alienated large chunks of the left against him, and has likely marred what could have been could have been a triumphant return to the Senate."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/top-two-bernie-sanders-advisers-throw-him-under-a-bus-for-not-following-their-advice/24357/
I do think though that Devine is right about Bernie's poor personal interactions with diners, etc. He's not a good retail politician.
You suspect that he sort of looks down on that whole mode of thought. As for Cornell West's point about reaching out to minority voters, I think that it's not just about reaching out but how you reach out.
It seems to me that in many ways, Bernie's preference for large rallies worked for millennial white voters but not so much for many African Americans. Like when he was in that South Carolina church and started trying to give a long stump speech when folks were eating on a Sunday morning.
It's the retail stuff that a lot of voters like. It's funny, but if you recall, Saturday Night Live did a sketch with Larry David playing Bernie that I think kind of sums him up pretty well.
Remember where he loses Iowa by four votes and these turn out to be four individual voters he offends by basically telling them to kiss off?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4tP7ogWIA
This sums up Bernie's whole personal pretty well I think. It is sort of prophetic as to why he won't make it and-also why he's not Presidential material for that matter.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/greg-sargent-weighs-in-on-bernies.html
It's the nature of campaigns that hindsight is always going to be 20-20.
"Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, is telling the New York Times that Sanders refused to spend more time on the road in the early days of the campaign, insisting on heading back to the Senate too often. Ted Devine, the top strategist for the campaign, is saying that Sanders insisted on only doing large rallies and had little interest in interacting one-on-one with locals when they would approach him in diners. Cornel West, a surrogate for the campaign, is blaming Sanders for not reaching out to minority voters sooner."
"Sanders confidants are now complaining exhaustively about all the ways in which they believe he would have had a better chance of winning if he had followed their advice. Weaver and Devine both wanted him to go negative against Clinton much earlier, even though his recent willingness to do so has alienated large chunks of the left against him, and has likely marred what could have been could have been a triumphant return to the Senate."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/top-two-bernie-sanders-advisers-throw-him-under-a-bus-for-not-following-their-advice/24357/
I do think though that Devine is right about Bernie's poor personal interactions with diners, etc. He's not a good retail politician.
You suspect that he sort of looks down on that whole mode of thought. As for Cornell West's point about reaching out to minority voters, I think that it's not just about reaching out but how you reach out.
It seems to me that in many ways, Bernie's preference for large rallies worked for millennial white voters but not so much for many African Americans. Like when he was in that South Carolina church and started trying to give a long stump speech when folks were eating on a Sunday morning.
It's the retail stuff that a lot of voters like. It's funny, but if you recall, Saturday Night Live did a sketch with Larry David playing Bernie that I think kind of sums him up pretty well.
Remember where he loses Iowa by four votes and these turn out to be four individual voters he offends by basically telling them to kiss off?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4tP7ogWIA
This sums up Bernie's whole personal pretty well I think. It is sort of prophetic as to why he won't make it and-also why he's not Presidential material for that matter.
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