2016 Postmortem

A host quoting an article from Mother Jones magazine and asking a Democratic strategist about it. And then that strategist saying it is something the Sanders campaign would need to address, especially if Sanders became relevant.

As I and others have said, very little was made of that story (or his praise of Castro, etc.) during the campaign. If you think the 1-minute clip I just watched suggests otherwise, you're sorely mistaken.

All candidates get vetted, as they should, so of course oppo research gets mentioned here and there. It didn't really matter, though, because Sanders never had the support of the party's base. Had the race been tighter like it was in 2008, perhaps the kid gloves would have been taken off, but the race was essentially over by mid-March. The writing was on the wall after Super Tuesday.