Democratic Primaries

The 2008 Democratic Primary Was Far Nastier Than 2016’s

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-2008-democratic-primary-was-far-nastier-than-2016s/

Still, the New York senator suspended her campaign only after the last primary in June that year. She dropped her bid to win over superdelegates—she trailed Obama in pledged delegates by 100, but essentially tied him in the popular vote, and he needed superdelegates to get him over the threshold for the nomination. But there was even a little drama at the Denver convention in August: Team Obama wanted him nominated by acclamation; some of Team Clinton wanted a roll-call vote, to reflect her “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling of presidential politics. In a compromise, Clinton herself, standing with the New York delegation she’d won, nominated Obama by acclamation. We know how the story ends: The man Clinton once argued was a doomed candidate won two terms as president.

Hillary used the same argument another poster you replied to just insinuated...that she was winning all the big blue states while Obama was "only" winning the red states that Dems can't win in the general election, so therefore she was the better nominee.

But she had it backwards...Dems who lose blue states in primaries will usually win them in the GE. But those Dems who can win primaries in red states stand a much better chance to win the crucial purple swing states. Which is exactly what Obama did.