sabvre42 said: The funny thing is moderates don't like Sanders (kinda like trump). While Sanders can do well in the primaries -- Hillary would do much better in the general. |
Polling numbers suggest otherwise. Sanders does better than Clinton when matched against Trump. Sanders is considered "acceptable" by 80% of NH voters in the Democratic primary (remember, that includes Independents that chose to vote on the Democratic side) compared with about 67% for Clinton.
The main thing that Sanders needs to counteract is the idea that he's unelectable. Quite a few people who end up voting for Clinton, according to Opinion polls, do so because they fear that Sanders wouldn't win a general election. It's kind of silly, considering that the only plausible republican candidate that polls as a serious threat if Sanders is the Dem candidate is Rubio (and even then, Sanders has consistently remained ahead on trends). Sanders does strongly against Cruz, Trump, and Bush. The only other two candidates that even warrant specific polling are Carson and Fiorina, and he mops the floor with both.
Hillary does similarly well overall, of course (with a few modifications - she has more trouble with Fiorina than Sanders does), but the point is, polling says Sanders can do fine in the general - especially when you factor in that Clinton currently has a lot more of the money... if Sanders wins the nomination, much of the money currently flowing to Clinton will instead flow to Sanders.