Especially 49.6--achieving a dead heat--coming from nowhere, starting with no name recognition, no money, no organization, near complete media blackout and a hostile DNC chair trying to rig it for your opponent.
That is not "toast." If anything, it means that Hillary Clinton may be toast. She gets no momentum from Iowa, had to spend way too much money just to get a tie--and even then, was dependent on lucky coin tosses (literally), it was such a squeaker--had to trash the good will of many Democrats by using the DNC to try to rig it in her favor, and had to cash in way too many chips in endorsements, way too early, just to get a tie.
If I was a Clinton supporter, I'd be very worried this morning, and not saying stupid things like Bernie Sanders "is likely toast." Besides being wrong, you risk alienating all the young new Democratic voters who have flocked to Sanders, and Sanders' large constituency for single payer health care, expansion of Social Security, fair taxation and other New Deal policies. Better if you would re-think these issues and advise your candidate to cut off her umbilical to our Corporate Rulers and run on her own merits as someone who could get these things done for the 99%. She has an argument there--she IS competent to do that--but we can't believe her while she's getting millions of dollars from our oppressors, and has a record of abandoning Democratic Party principles (on "free trade for the rich" agreements, on private prisons, on war, on health care, etc.). She needs to "revolutionize" her campaign (for instance, publicly drop her super-PACS and Corporate donors, and ask for small donations from everybody, join with Sanders in picking a new DNC chair and ousting her shill, and other such uniting moves). She COULD do that, and unite the party and most of the country around Sanders' issues. Will she? If she's a real leader, she will. I don't think she's a real leader now, but I DO think she's capable of it.
Bottom line, Sanders if far from being "toast." He has all the momentum right now, and, considering that huge majorities of Americans agree with his positions in polls on the ISSUES (not name recognition), the more they learn about him--that someone is actually advocating for what they want--the more support will he gain. The only things Clinton has going for her now are name recognition and that "electability" meme, but Iowa has put a serious dent in both. She and her supporters need to deal with this, and not tell yourselves lies--lies that will end up ripping the Democratic Party to pieces, like 1968! (Oh my, if Hubert Humphrey had only broken with LBJ and come out against the war, what a better world we would have now!)
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