return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days ago“They really did screw Bernie”: Here's what 2016 can teach Democrats todaywww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down120
arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-link“They really did screw Bernie”: Here's what 2016 can teach Democrats todaywww.motherjones.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoThat’s not quite true. Joe Biden got double the votes Bernie did in 2020, but in 2016 HRC only beat him with a 12% margin, which is still millions of votes but not double.
minus-squareedible_funk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoYou are correct, I was exaggerating the numbers, pulling incorrectly from memory.
That’s not quite true. Joe Biden got double the votes Bernie did in 2020, but in 2016 HRC only beat him with a 12% margin, which is still millions of votes but not double.
You are correct, I was exaggerating the numbers, pulling incorrectly from memory.