Morning Thrumbolio, hope you had a nice weekend.

SIDEBAR: I found myself in the “not going to bother talking politics with family” boat, though I couldn’t give less of a shit regarding whether the Obamas or Clintons speak out.

Oh, for sure, he would have won.

If you award Steins votes in PA to Clinton and make the assumption that if Gary Johnson wasn’t in play that at least 15k of his 142k voter base had common sense and voted for Hillary, she would have carried PA and thus the presidency. A similar argument could be made for FL though it would require a much higher margin…

I do actually wonder in all seriousness what would have happened if Sanders never entered the ring on the Democratic ticket. I don’t know what would have really happened and maybe nothing would have changed but I have a solid feeling that maybe a lot would be different today.

Yes, a Jewish socialist would’ve won the hearts and minds of white women and rural whites this year.

Yep, they should have put the guy on the ballot who *lost the primary*, because somehow he was going to magically win the general election!

No one has ever actually answered this question in a straight-forward way; if Sanders lost the primary, by a significant amount, how exactly is he going to do better in the…