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6 Experts say Sanders can’t win in the General Election

This is the possibility real that the Sanders candidacy is a gamble for democrats that might end up costing them everything.

Their general conclusion was:

Under some unlikely circumstances, Sanders could win a general election. But nominating him would make it significantly more difficult for Democrats to keep the White House.

[Sanders's] political views are more toward the ideological pole than the average voter's," said John Sides, a professor in political science at George Washington University, in an email. "Absent a very favorable set of conditions, nominating a candidate like Sanders as opposed to a more moderate Democrat creates the risk of a penalty at the ballot box

The famous social science experiment that shows why Sanders would be easy to beat
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But that in turn raises another (perhaps more obvious) question: What turns people off from extreme ideas? Why are voters less likely to support candidates who propose more radical solutions?

These 6 experts point out that the American people are reluctant to vote in one as radical as Bernie and they never have.

The two most frequently cited examples were the failed candidacies of George McGovern, the Democratic nominee who lost in a 24-point landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972, and Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee who carried just six states in 1964.