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Will never know. Keep in mind that only 28.5% of voters participated in primaries, so I am not sure the open primaries reasoning holds water. Plus, Trump also w

Will never know. Keep in mind that only 28.5% of voters participated in primaries, so I am not sure the open primaries reasoning holds water. Plus, Trump also won more primaries when they were open. Precisely twice as often. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/22/trumps-big-advantage-open-primaries.html https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/22/trumps-big-advantage-open-pr... Plus, Bernie wasn't attacked because of his policies because HRC's were similar. He would have been in the general election.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> Plus, Bernie wasn't attacked because of his policies because HRC's were similar Yes he was, from the right, by Clinton—that was a key part of Clinton's primary campaign—and, no, they weren't that similar. But I agree that there would have been more focus on policy in a general election campaign with Sanders as the nominee, which would have been bad for Trump.