It's time for Sanders to bow out gracefully - San Diego Union Tribune

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5. Ugh. This again?

In 2016, an estimated 12% of Sanders supporters...blah blah blah.

As has been pointed out numerous times on DU, many Sanders voters aren't Democrats to begin with so we weren't going to get their votes anyway. People don't vote for the nominee; it happens in every fucking election.

According to a Gallup poll taken at the end of March 2008, only 59 percent of Clinton supporters said they’d vote for Obama and 28 percent of them said they’d vote for John McCain. Likewise, a Washington Post survey from May of that year found 26 percent of Clinton supporters promising to vote McCain and only 64 percent promising to vote for Obama.

As the Post noted on Wednesday, though, “Obama’s support among Clinton primary supporters rose from 64 percent in May to 73 percent in mid-September, 79 percent in mid-October and 83 percent by Election Day, according to [a CNN] exit poll.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/06/obama-says-democrats-will-unite-like-in-2008-will-they.html

Our energies would be better spent getting those who didn't vote at all in 2016 to the polls in 2020.