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During the 2016 Democratic primary Bernie Sanders jumped in relatively late in the process and was pretty clearly initially a message candidate to push Hillary Clinton to the left, but was surprised, along with everyone else, with him becoming a stiff challenger to Clinton. Yesterday I heard a theory by a Clinton supporting pundit that had Sanders thought he could potentially win and started his primary run a year early, which meant preparing to run and assembling a time, not necessarily officially announcing a year earlier than IOTL. Apparently he was talking about a run as early as 2012, so it's not like he decided out of the blue to run in April 2015. So what if he started preparing for 2016 in 2014 and really made an early effort to win and get his name out there in preparation for a run, while assembling a better primary campaign staff? Do you think he might have had a shot to win with better preparation and expectation that he would actually try and win, rather than run a message campaign?
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