So Team Hillary is about to begin Operation Backfire......

[virtualobserver]

I guess her disapproval numbers are just too darn low.

[BillZBubb]

1. Desperate times. Team Hillary is sweating bullets now.

The road to the coronation took a big detour.

[virtualobserver]

5. if Bernie wins New York....all bets are off

Hillary is playing right into Bernie's hands.

[roguevalley]

14. she lost the last nine or ten including one she supposedly won.

[Betty Karlson]

18. Have I miscounted? I thought seven of the last eight?

(Arizona?)

[Kalidurga]

2. I think it's supposed to distract her supporters from the Panama Papers.

[virtualobserver]

7. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the campaign tonight

[Kalidurga]

10. Yep me too

I think she is in a panic because she knows there are some relationships there that will come out that she would rather not come out right before NY votes.

[Lucinda]

26. Bernie missed his numbers....I suspect team Hillary is not unhappy.

[virtualobserver]

28. yeah, they just love losing 7 out of 8 contests....

[Lucinda]

29. It's all about the delegates.

But I'm sure you know that already.

[virtualobserver]

30. That must be why they are panicking....because they have the nomination locked up.

[HereSince1628]

32. Actually he's reasonably close to his numbers if you calculate with NV flipped.

Before tonite he needed to AVERAGE 57-ish. Sanders does face the daunting task of needing to continue on mostly winning streak. Going into states dominated by urban populations that won't be easy.

It looks like the Brock plan going forward is more application of paint to Sanders as a white patriarch who wants more guns on the street to help bern down Wall St.

Will that work, or will it backfire?

It doesn't have to work perfectly, but if it doesn't work well enough to protect Clinton from Sanders closing strongly out West, she can't win with only pledged delegates.

There in are the makings for a nausea generating recipe of abandonment by independents and a dem defeat in Nov.

[morningfog]

33. He hit his numbers and cut Hillary's delegate lead.

[artislife]

3. Now that is ....funnneee! nt

[Bonobo]

4. Here's her new campaign head.

[Armstead]

6. Good I hope she shows her ugly side...It doesn't work well for her

[virtualobserver]

11. I'd like to hear Axelrod's analysis of her new strategy....I'll be watching for his tweets

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. she is acting like she is in bosnia and is running from the incoming

she only goes down

down down down

her high point was a year ago

down down down

she only goes down

by November she would have trouble beating a dead horse

down down down

she only goes down

[Holly_Hobby]

34. "...trouble beating a dead horse"

That cracked me up, thank you!

[Red Oak]

9. Operation Backfire - you broke the Internet!!

[DJ13]

13. Operation Backfire

[BernieforPres2016]

12. She is going to be on CNN at 11:15 AM EDT tomorrow

I would guess if this report of going after Bernie harder is accurate we should see the beginning of it then. I'm sure the CNN hosts will let her dictate the conversation.

[cui bono]

15. What is she going to do???

[virtualobserver]

16. Team Hillary DU will be showing us by tomorrow

[Betty Karlson]

17. Her campaign, like the rest of the 20th century, is OVER.

But as usual, she stubbornly clings to an outdated position until she reluctantly has to shift to the left: Gay rights, TPP, the Fight for Fifteen Dollars an Hour...

[renate]

19. I think you've put your finger right on it with that name

Operation Backfire it most certainly would be.

I posted this somewhere else tonight but I'm still wondering... Bernie has the momentum for sure, but because of the earlier primaries the numbers are not in his favor, at least not right now. I may wish it to be otherwise, but he really does have an uphill climb. So why are they worried?

I wonder whether they have information that us regular people don't. Because with Cruz looking stronger and with the RNC behind him (holding their noses, but still), how can it not be the stupidest idea in the history of politics to deliberately alienate Bernie's loyal and devoted supporters, if they're so sure that she has the superdelegates and the votes and everything? Why don't they just ignore Bernie and coast, if they have this in the bag?

The only two answers I can come up with are 1) they're committing political malpractice or 2) they know something--polls or Panamanian documents or indictments--the rest of us don't. I truly, honestly, sincerely don't want Hillary to look bad if she's the eventual nominee. I would vote for her in a heartbeat, if only because of who'll she be running against. But this is a very odd reaction to an underdog candidate.

[virtualobserver]

21. Personally, I think that it is as simple as the NY poll numbers tanking.....

If she can't win the state which twice elected her Senator, it redefines the race. It is impossible to spin, and would make 9 out of the last 10 victories, and this time in a closed primary with a diverse population.

They have seen this pattern over and over again.....as Bernie closes the gap....and this time, Bernie has plenty of time to devote to travelling the state. If Hillary did the same, it would call attention to the dramatically smaller crowds.

Plus, Bernie has more money to run ads, and we keep giving him more.

[AgingAmerican]

20. Operation windsock

[Vinca]

22. They could go lower.

Nothing says smart campaigning like the intent to trash a beloved political figure.

[virtualobserver]

24. They will go lower. Will she literally destroy her campaign during the run-up to NY?

Stay tuned!

[GreatGazoo]

23. But..but...but why would a campaign with an "insurmountable" lead do such a thing?

They are blowing their own meme, or perhaps they know it never caught on outside of cable news and the WaPo.

[virtualobserver]

25. Exactly.....Panicking nastily creates bad optics.

[Still In Wisconsin]

27. It's classic Republican tactics-- if you can't raise your favorables, then

raise your opponent's unfavorables.

[JackInGreen]

31. It'll be open public comment oriface

insert flaming dose of public STFU, and I will giggle and have a good day.
after I dunk my head to make sure I don't rage on instinct.