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So if he was already so popular he was outshining Clinton and Trump, why didn't people vote for him? Could it maybe be because he's only popular in highly populous cities that have relatively few electoral votes when compared to the rural areas where he's not as popular, and so nationwide polling isn't indicative of actual electoral success?
Also, as we all know now, presence on major TV news networks doesn't align with electoral success either. Trump basically cornered the podcast market and he won the election. People don't watch TV news anymore.
Really? You're saying that on a post of a picture showing his popularity across like 80% of the country? I would think that that applies better to Hillary than Bernie, but I have nothing to back that up and she was a fairly unpopular candidate regardless - Trump and Hillary were the two lowest ranking candidates in terms of popularity since they started tracking that. Also, we're talking about the Democratic primary here, not the election, where only Democrats and independents matter in terms of voting (and independents are allowed to vote in primaries only in some states. Others have closed primaries that are only open to people registered with that political party).
Right, which is why Trump lost both elections he ran in, since his face has been plastered on the TV day in and day out for practically a decade now. While I do agree that TV doesn't matter as much anymore, media presence very much does, as Trump shows, and this is where the Democratic Party kneecapped Bernie's campaign. Not only did they give funding and marketing priority to Hillary (a large portion of Bernie's funding was from donations from average Americans - I don't think he had any corporate donors or anything except his own "SuperPac" which is TINY compared to all the others and, again, made up of individual donations), but they also colluded with media organizations to limit the amount of media exposure he had. And even with that handicap on people even knowing about him, he still pulled major points during the primary.
Look at all those small town voting districts that voted for Bernie.