I think it matters more than you think. And I was directing Magilla's point towards millennials because I honestly hadn't thought about that before he mentioned it, but the past day or so I've just been mulling around, running this election through my head, asking myself why she didn't articulate her policies better to millennials, the center she was courting, etc...OscarGuy wrote
Really, she adopted almost every single one of Bernie's positions into her own platform. You say she didn't reach out to millennials, but then reference Magilla's statement about older voters. They aren't the same thing. Youngsters are more likely to go online to look at things. Maybe she could have been more articulate about some things, but I remember very clearly from the town hall debate where she spoke directly to those asking questions and advised them what she stood for and what it would do to help.
But then it hit me. During the Democratic Primaries, she articulated her policies just fine. The minute the nominations were sealed, the media turned the entire thing into cult of personality. I remember several occasions, the miserable Matt Lauer "debate" for example, where she would basically get cut off in the middle of a policy explanation to pivot back to the emails or whatever. I don't blame her campaign staff for thinking this was a good compromise, but in retrospect it didn't work. But it was a direct response to an election that the media setup. I have so much contempt for the networks, from their clown-car treatment of the GOP debates, allowing Donald Trump to coast without any serious policy ideas, to getting the polls for Hillary so damn wrong.