In the primary election, Vanderwest said he supported Sanders "for a while", but has since transferred over to Clinton.
Lawrence said that she supported Sanders for his adamant insistence on rooting money out of politics, and that Clinton simply could not be trusted.
Here are 10 reasons our readers gave for supporting Sanders over Clinton.
When Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem seemed to disparage young women for supporting Sanders, and not the woman in the race, they did no one any good.
Albright warned there was a "special place in hell" for women who don't support other women, and Steinem suggested that young women supporting Sanders were in it for the boys.
To make matters even worse for those supporting Sanders, it's likely true that the campaign does in fact regret how it played in recent months.
Another group that also supports Sanders, People for Bernie — an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement — sent a tweet warning that even bigger battles may be ahead.
Serrano, who is a cook at McDonalds who has raised three children on a wage of $9.90 an hour, said that she supported Sanders more for his economic reform platform and stance on unions than on immigration.
The Sanders campaign can point to one recent hopeful poll: in an automated telephone survey conducted in the middle of last week, the research firm Gravis Marketing found that forty-seven per cent of likely voters in the Democratic primary supported Sanders, compared with fifty-three for Clinton, a gap of just six points.
When Americans are actually using their obituaries, asking mourners to support Sanders or not to vote for Hillary Clinton, there's a momentum in the Sanders campaign that simply can't be measured by numbers.
