Whose fault was 2004? Sometimes your chosen candidate just isn’t good/popular enough. That’s how democracies work - you need to forge a coalition and sometimes you can’t. You have to earn people’s votes (again, I think Clinton will win the popular vote and the electoral college).
If you tell people they have to vote for the least worst option, you’re saying that no party to the left of the Democrats should exist. Do you really feel that way?
I don’t like bananas. I’ll take none because fuck your experiment, monkey prison guard.