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Insidb on 30 November 2016
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Trentonater said:
fatslob-:O said:

It's you and the others who are not thinking logically since I was able to struck a chord with a few posters in this thread already ...

Despite Hillary having higher unfavorability ratings she was still able to get just as much votes as Obama did in 2012 and the most ironic of all is that Trump still won even being the most unfavourable. Favorability ratings need to be put in question since it probably has no correlation in comparison to the electoral college ... 

Yes, I'm willing to accept that presidential primaries don't tell us a whole lot but what I'm interested in is any data regarding swing states ... 

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/primaries/PA

Bernie Sanders fell short with a 200K vote deficit for a reason in the Pennsylvania primary and EVEN with younger voters accounted for in the primary but in the end he STILL got blown away by Hillary! As Brexit has taught us, you don't win an election with the least likely voters, you win an election with the MOST LIKELY VOTERS. Bernie Sanders hype with his advantage in younger voters is just that when he couldn't make up the difference for the age 45 and up group. The very old voters (65+) don't take too kindly towards progressive views like Sander's ... 

Like it or not Bernie Sanders has a weakness with older voters in Pennsylvania that Trump can severely exploit ... 

Get over yourself. Hillary didn't come anywhere close to the number of votes for Obama in either election. Bernie and literally ever other candidate not named Hillary give Trump a one-sided stomp in every poll with general election voters. Brexit turnout was extremely high in every demographic. The real cause of Brexit is the gap between england/wales and Scotland/northern ireland.

You still don't get it. Sander's demographics in the primary says absolutely nothing about him with the general populace. Don't you think Sander's would make the millenials turn out more? After all they now out-number baby boomers. 

So Trump would not recieve any more votes since he already had maximum enthusiasm yet Sanders would greatly increase it for democratic voters. You are talking about another anti-establishment candidate. I predicted Trump's win because of the enthusiasm gap that was plain to see.

Pretty much this.