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I cannot imagine that many who were in favor of Bernie would switch to Trump. Believe it. People did not like the idea of voting for Hillary, and voting third
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
I cannot imagine that many who were in favor of Bernie would switch to Trump.
Believe it. People did not like the idea of voting for Hillary, and voting third party has its own issues.
Also, there was the X factor. People didn't really know what they were going to get with Trump.
- s73ver_ 9y agoAgain, I need more than "not Clinton" to believe that. I find it quite difficult to believe that someone who was supporting Sanders would be able to vote for a border wall, repealing the ACA, a Muslim ban, someone who bragged about sexual assault on tape, and general deregulation of business.
- maxerickson 9y agoYou don't think he was predictable? I bet this continues to hold up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12920911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12920911 (posted Nov 10 2016)
- takeda 9y agoThe thing about social media is that if after election Trump would turn out to be the best president in our history. Instead of you, someone else would now cited the post that they said that in November. The truth is, no one knew at the time. People had their theories, some were proved right, some were proven wrong. The people who you were responding to are example that your opinion was just one of many. There was hope that perhaps Trump's ego would motivate him to be better than previous presidents. Sadly that didn't happen.
- maxerickson 9y agoThat's a fair criticism. And I guess it still applies even though I was more specific than good vs bad. Because you just need a few dozen predictions for one to be right.