Another risk, which first showed up in Michigan: Sanders was losing the sort of rural, working class white areas that he won in 2016. For years he'd point to his Midwest/Appalachia wins as evidence that those voters wanted his agenda. 1/2
Running and losing on the rest of this map - Indiana, West Virginia, etc - would blow that up. A socialist candidate who could win West Virginia can shake up politics and establishment thinking; a socialist who wins Vermont and California can't. 2/2
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