2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumReminder: 12 months ago almost every voter outside of Vermont would have been "Bernie who?"
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
(16,184 posts)Outside of Vermont, obviously.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)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
(1,019 posts)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
(5,614 posts)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
(1,019 posts)Then again, the Sanders movement is 90% white male libertarians, so maybe that's to be expected.