Camp Hillary's sudden calls to have Bernie drop out betray a nervousness about the road ahead.
It's not the mark of a confident campaign. Not at all.
If they were truly confident about their chances, they'd have no problem with harmless 'Old Uncle Bernie' staying in the race all the way until the convention.
Behind their claims of a "99%" certainty that Hillary will win it all, we know they're still scared.
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I am a supporter, but not nervous or calling for anyone to drop out 
But there comes a point in time when you have to start cutting back, closing up, and settling invoices. He pays way too many staff, IMO, and we saw how much bang for his buck he got in SC with 240 paid staff at minimum fifteen bucks an hour, many paid more. He cut back in NC when he realized that was a no-go (and one fellow saw a conspiracy in it, apparently and created frantic YTs asserting strange conspiracies to include "internal corruption"
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Also, your link only goes through this point in time:
That was well before he was beaten down in five states in one night. I will say quite honestly, those multiple defeats surprised me. I thought Sanders was much stronger than he turned out to be, and I thought he'd run away with MO, win OH, and compete and maybe beat in IL. I figured Clinton would own FL and NC, as she did, and we'd slog on. But that was a DRUBBING, 'margins' notwithstanding. Sanders underperformed, yet again, and Clinton exceeded (yet again) expectations despite unkind and sexist media coverage.
Sanders doesn't have an endless supply of scratch, and with these losses most recently, and the likelihood that he is NOT going to succeed in his quest, a lot of those recurring donations are going to go away. And people who might have contributed had he done well are saying "Naaaah--I can spend this on those new shoes I was looking at."
Who throws good money after bad? His receipts will go down-down-down as more and more people realize that his chance is that of a snowball in Florida in July at high noon. Not everyone is a "Die Hard Fan." Some people have to watch their dollars, or just don't see a point in tilting at windmills.
Once you start cutting checks for severed campaign employees, paying the rents due on offices, settling those bills that are sitting in the in-box with a ninety day due date, etc., that money can go POOF in a real hurry. As he draws down, he needs to keep the cash flowing IN, and the way to do that is to insist that a) There is a path, and b) He's gonna do it, oh yes, he is! The people who want to believe, will, and they will keep handing over their money. Eventually even those Die Hards will figure it out, but in the meantime they will help him keep the lights on and the staff paid while he shrinks the staff, makes the economies, and does the draw down thing.
I don't worry about young voters at all. They get interested and most of the time, they don't show up because they didn't bother to register, or forgot, or didn't want to take the bus and couldn't grab a ride, or whatever.
Ask Howard Dean. He'll tell ya.
Thing is, they don't get "disillusioned." They fart around for a few years, then they grow up, become adults, and start voting. Did the kids who voted for McGovern "give up?" No. It took them awhile, but they got off their asses when they grew up and voted in Carter and Clinton. AND Gore (thanks a lot, Supremes). AND Obama. It's not Young Republicans of 1972 who put Barack in the White House, after all.
And as for coat-tails? Sanders can't even get super delegates to back him (and twenty some-odd people are a drop in the bucket) and he's been on the Hill for a quarter century. What is up with that--he has NO friends up there? Why is that, do you suppose?
Could it be that he's never gotten off his ass and campaigned for his 'pals' in the House/Senate? Could it be that Democrats don't like a guy who advocated primarying a sitting Dem POTUS in 2012? What makes you think he's going to help anyone now when he has never done it before?
By contrast, HRC has never been shy about supporting fellow Dems--she established a PAC to do just that (and she even gave money from it to .... wait for it ... BERNIE SANDERS--there's a reason he calls her his friend, he owes his Senate seat in no small part to her and other Senate Dems). She's got coat-tails, and she's also got a spouse who can draw crowds, produce media availabilities, put candidates on local TV simply by him showing up, and help downticket candidates in a big way.
But--to get back to the main point of this thread--no one is calling for Sanders to get out. He can drag this out as long as he wants. Hopefully, he'll be able to separate enough money from his supporters to keep the engine chugging while he slogs on, because I'd rather not have to donate to the DNC to pay his debts (and he will have them as his people peel away). I'd rather that kind of scratch go down ticket.
events and huge swaths of the Democratic party.
And no one invited me 
They are probably sitting around the campfire singing Who runs the World? Girls! and woking on their pantsuit badges right now without me
Priceless
breaking glass ceilings after 
Bey is black? 
Kidding..... Yes, that was hilarious.
That's what supporters of a candidate do just before they are disgraced.
they wouldn't be backing a candidate with such a high negative rating that a virtual unknown with no media coverage is giving her a challenge. If she didn't have the media and DNC in her pocket, she would already be out. 
If you want America to have a future, vote for Bernie!
Everything I've read has stated the contrary, that her campaign would not ask him to drop out.
