Reasons 1-10 for Bernie losing were Obama getting the other centrist candidates to drop out and endorse Biden on the eve of Super Tuesday. He was the clear frontrunner before that, and Biden was completely dead in the water until South Carolina, and even then he needed Obama's backstage jobbing to really be a serious candidate again. Other stuff matters -- Bernie could have done things better -- but they start at about Reason 11.
He should’ve gone all out against Joe
A candidate (not necessarily the candidate's campaign or supporters) being too negative almost never works -- it's arguably never worked in a modern presidential election with the exception of Trump. We can't criticize Hillary and Biden and all sorts of centrist Dems on the grounds of "give people something to vote for, not just reasons to vote against your opponent" and then turn around and say Bernie definitely needed to talk more about reasons to vote against his opponent. That's doubly true for an opponent like Biden, who was out of the picture entirely from about January through South Carolina. It would have made no sense for Bernie to start talking about Biden's record when Biden was getting smoked in all the early primary states. In reality there was only a small window when it made sense to try and hit Biden hard, and that type of negativity from a candidate almost never works, and at least two candidates (Harris and Bookers) had already ate shit despite making the most direct attacks on Biden.
Reasons 1-10 for Bernie losing were Obama getting the other centrist candidates to drop out and endorse Biden on the eve of Super Tuesday. He was the clear frontrunner before that, and Biden was completely dead in the water until South Carolina, and even then he needed Obama's backstage jobbing to really be a serious candidate again. Other stuff matters -- Bernie could have done things better -- but they start at about Reason 11.
A candidate (not necessarily the candidate's campaign or supporters) being too negative almost never works -- it's arguably never worked in a modern presidential election with the exception of Trump. We can't criticize Hillary and Biden and all sorts of centrist Dems on the grounds of "give people something to vote for, not just reasons to vote against your opponent" and then turn around and say Bernie definitely needed to talk more about reasons to vote against his opponent. That's doubly true for an opponent like Biden, who was out of the picture entirely from about January through South Carolina. It would have made no sense for Bernie to start talking about Biden's record when Biden was getting smoked in all the early primary states. In reality there was only a small window when it made sense to try and hit Biden hard, and that type of negativity from a candidate almost never works, and at least two candidates (Harris and Bookers) had already ate shit despite making the most direct attacks on Biden.
Dude you sound like libs who think that Obama was actually really progressive you guys, but there's nothing he can do because Republican in congress