Reminder: 12 months ago almost every voter outside of Vermont would have been "Bernie who?"

[phantom power]

Absolutely every voter knew who Clinton was.

Today, Sanders is crushing Clinton 80% to 20% in state primaries. Win, lose or draw, Clinton and the entire Democratic Party should be pondering how in the hell that happened, and why.

[NuclearDem]

1. Where exactly is he crushing Clinton 80-20 in primaries?

Outside of Vermont, obviously.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. 24,000 people voted in Idaho...

Tom Watson
‏@tomwatson
Only 24k voted in Democratic caucus in Idaho? Hillary will get more votes than that from a 10-block stretch of the Grand Concourse in April

[CalvinballPro]

2. Except not all "state primaries" are equal, as their delegates are established based on population.

As much as you might wish it, winning states with small populations and correspondingly small amounts of delegates isn't moving the needle in Sanders' favor. If anything, he barely tread water tonight in the delegate count. He is continually missing his delegate targets to actually be on track to win the nomination. He needs to win every contest with 60% of the vote now, which isn't going to happen in diverse states coming up like NJ and NY.

[mikehiggins]

4. The question is, what does the Sanders campaign mean?

Does it bode well for HRC if she does win the nomination?

Does it possibly leave a large number of unhappy activists disappointed in having fallen short at the end?

Should the HRC supporters and the Establishment voices do more than mouth slogans, even as they know HRC will slide back to the right as soon as the GE begins.

How will the HRC campaign convince Sanders' supporters that the Democratic Party will continue moving to the left when most of the Sanders' supporters think that would be a bald-face lie?

Does the disaffected, anti-Establishment vote swing over to the GOPuke clown?

Guess we'll know by the end of July.

See you at the convention.

[CalvinballPro]

5. If you swing from Sanders to Trump, your progressivism is just an act. And not fooling anyone either

Then again, the Sanders movement is 90% white male libertarians, so maybe that's to be expected.