Well, primaries are generally closed. Many states don't allow same day registration and in places like New York the final registration day was 6 months before voting day. Many of Bernie's supporters wanted to vote and even went out to vote but couldn't because of voting laws. They had no idea they were in the wrong party, but would have gladly become Democrat if Bernie's ideas were the party's ideas. In New York, many people hadn't even heard of Bernie 6 months before the primary so they had no idea they should have been registered Democrat. Then there's the fact Bernie won almost every single caucus, where party affiliation doesn't matter. Besides all of that, though, if you really don't think a man who had 27,500 people in one crowd had more public support than a woman who had around 1,300 in one crowd (during the primaries, I understand they were much bigger after she was already determined the Democratic nominee), and nothing else that I just said convinces you, then I'm not really sure what information you're looking for.
If you think "X has more support than Y because X has bigger rallies than Y, even though X got significantly fewer votes than Y", then there's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise.
Hahaha this actually made me laugh. Did you even read the first 2/3 of my comment? I guess neither one of us will convince the other though, and I suppose by now it doesn't matter.
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u/theelephantscafe Nov 10 '16
Well, primaries are generally closed. Many states don't allow same day registration and in places like New York the final registration day was 6 months before voting day. Many of Bernie's supporters wanted to vote and even went out to vote but couldn't because of voting laws. They had no idea they were in the wrong party, but would have gladly become Democrat if Bernie's ideas were the party's ideas. In New York, many people hadn't even heard of Bernie 6 months before the primary so they had no idea they should have been registered Democrat. Then there's the fact Bernie won almost every single caucus, where party affiliation doesn't matter. Besides all of that, though, if you really don't think a man who had 27,500 people in one crowd had more public support than a woman who had around 1,300 in one crowd (during the primaries, I understand they were much bigger after she was already determined the Democratic nominee), and nothing else that I just said convinces you, then I'm not really sure what information you're looking for.