jwb

This is just reiterating the same calculus we're all familiar with, but I think it's a mistake to regard it a waste to make a riskier vote just because you didn't win the election.

Like I said, it's very unlikely for a party to change fundamentally over night or for any non status quo option to emerge as victorious over a single election.

It's much more likely it will take years or even decades of failed attempts and shifts in the mainstream conversation. I would say the conversation actually changed more radically due to Sanders failed attempts than it did under 8 years of Obama.

Of course, there's more to it than just "the conversation," holding power has real implications in terms of court picks etc, but I don't think it's nearly so cut and dry is all.