Bernie's South Carolina surrender

[MrWendel]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-schedule-219708

Sanders insists he isn't giving up on the state but his schedule suggests otherwise.

By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI



COLUMBIA, S.C. — With just a few days until the South Carolina Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders is all but writing the state off.

He hasn’t said that, of course, but his schedule reflects it.

Sanders was in Massachusetts Monday night and Virginia Tuesday morning. While he attended a televised town hall in South Carolina Tuesday night and followed with an early morning news conference, his itinerary Wednesday consisted of events in Kansas City, Missouri, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. After that, his schedule called for a trip to Ohio Thursday — with stops in other March-voting states likely to be added, an aide said.

A candidate’s time is a campaign’s most precious resource, so by spending so much of it somewhere other than South Carolina, the Sanders campaign is engaging in the cold calculus of primary politics — making the tough decision to send the senator to the states where he expects to be the most competitive.

It’s a reflection of the cloudy outlook in South Carolina — where Hillary Clinton currently holds a double-digit lead in every poll ahead of Saturday's primary — but also of Sanders’ strategic map through mid-March. The campaign's goal is to project the message that he is running a durable national campaign, and central to that plan is a strong showing on Super Tuesday (March 1), followed by solid performances in big-state primaries like Michigan on March 8 and Ohio on March 15.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. What is this talk of he wants an opportunity to speak at the Convention.

I am not familiar enough with Convention rules which entitles any candidate to speak at the Convention.

[72DejaVu]

4. If your name is placed in nomination, you get to speak

[Thinkingabout]

5. I am not being ugly but even if one does not have ample delegates do they

still get to speak?

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[fleabiscuit]

3. K&R