Annoying ? Sure , that ' s subjective . But the part about being phony is not . Back when he was making Amnesiaother horror game videos all of his reactions were fake . Something makes a noise and he starts screaming like a girl . <| sep |> The assumption is based upon polling numbers before and after election . Sanders has consistently higher approval than either of the two candidates had at any point . Sure , it ' s wrong to pretend that we know he would have won because we just can ' t know . What we do know is that people wanted change so badly that they voted for Trump , regardless of the troublesome things he said during the campaign . Also , Bernie was popular in places like Wisconsin , which was an important state to win .