Okay, at the moment 38% of likely Democratic voters intend to vote for a socialist over Clinton. Doesn't really sound that much better for her political adeptness.
I mean, aside from Obama, who had positive ratings in both '08 and '12, and Sanders, who has positive ratings now, and Rubio, who also has positive ratings, and fuck, even Carson manages to scrape over the 0 line. Meanwhile, Clinton, -13. Clinton is lucky the Democratic party is structurally advantaged because she is a hell of a millstone to drag.
I mean, I get that your new narrative to try and sell Bernie is to talk about how unlikable Hillary is (not a new argument) in terms of numbers (this is your new spin on an old argument).
But geez, if she's so unlikable, then Bernie's campaign must really suck. You're spinning Hillary's numbers into armageddon here, and if Bernie Sanders is soooooo likable and not "yesterday's leftovers" (because you know, women have to be called leftovers) and polling better as a generic Dem vs Trump, then why can't he beat Hillary?
The answer is pretty simple: Hillary is better prepared in organization, funding, establishment support, demographic support, technology, and she's running a tighter ship than Bernie Sanders. These are the factors that carry a presidential race today.
A candidate that fumbles with going off script (see the first encounter with BLM, the awkward spin to stump speech from mentions of Paris in second debate) and a campaign that fumbles with demographics (see their statements about women and minorities) are not going to get 'second chances' in the general. That popularity Bernie experiences now is the benefit of not being Hillary Clinton, and therefore not being substantial enough to merit heavy duty attacks by Republicans. His campaign can't even take a bit of heat without turning into a bunch of whiners. They're not going to be strong in anything.
By the way, this millstone raised 18 million for Democratic downticket races. Where's the act to back up Bernie's revolution? It's certainly not coming from him or his campaign.
EDIT: Hillary only won the most votes because a) Obama did better in caucus states which aren't tallied in the same way, and b) she competed in one states Obama did not out of protest. Even taking away b) is enough to have Obama with more votes. Come on, that's being deliberately misleading. Bluntly speaking, she's also a weaker candidate than in '08; nobody likes yesterday's leftovers.
And yet, even if you count the votes, Hillary has experienced significantly more support than Bernie ever has nationwide. Moreover, that was the level of support she achieved with a shoddy campaign back in 2008. This time she's coming with extremely solidified establishment support, Obama's grassroots machine, Obama's tech and Eric Schmidt's contracted tech, the addition of SecState to her resume, the lessons learned from 2008, in a climate where Planned Parenthood (females) and Latinos (a demo she has been strong in) are being threatened by the opposition.
And you would like to argue that she's weaker than she was in 2008?