So Bernie needs to win all of CA, NJ, New Mexico, and most of DC to win, right? Or get a bunch of the super delegates to change their declared votes (so that he has to win less in those states, or others…).
I got halfway through his speech and had to turn the channel. Watching all the worldly 23-year-olds in the crowd booing the Democratic party was repugnant. (I was waiting for them to start chanting the B word when he mentioned Hillary like his Bros did in Nevada over the weekend to Barbara Boxer).
He has to knock of the sour, bitter old man routine and fast.
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance.”
Lloyd Christmas and the Bernie Bros.
One step closer to having to admit defeat.
Bernie is definitely winning some and he is definitely the strong second place finisher.
His letter today about the violence in Nevada was absolutely despicable.
To brush off the actions of his worst supporters when he’s called out the same problem with Trump’s campaign in the past, to encourage an us-vs-them mentality, to act aggrieved when he can’t overturn the will of the voters or seize more delegates than he actually won… Good Christ, all that talk about Clinton’s arrogance and entitlement and corruption looks like little more than projection.
I didn’t see his speech as I just can’t stomach it anymore, but here are some samples floating in the tweeter feed.
“Don’t tell Secy. Clinton, she might get nervous – I think we’re going to win California.”
“fight for every vote” until DC Dem primary on June 14 “and then we’re going to take our fight to the convention.”
entire event space booed fiercely when Bernie Sanders mentioned “leadership of the Dem party.”
I’ve never seen that before- CA crowd starts chanting “Bernie or Bust” repeatedly & holding signs that say the same.
So… this is it. The guy got in to destroy and take over the Democratic party, and some dead-enders are fervently and blindly following his lead.
I’m not surprised - he was here last week.
All I can say is, “God damn it.”
And he could have used that accomplishment in more positive ways. But clearly, that’s “not his style.”
Bernie is a flawed messenger delivering a crucial message. The Democratic Establishment is pretty corrupt. They know that they just have to be a little bit better than the Republicans, and we have no choice but to vote for their candidates.
Fortunately, Bernie will not win. Fortunately, because Democrats need to control the Presidency, having lost Congress. The place where the corruption needs to be cleaned up first is the state and local levels.
Credit to Bern for winning in OR and winning his first closed primary but his margin is gonna only net him about 5 pledged delegates which will be offset somewhat by the 1-2 HRC gained in KY. Hardly results that strengthen his pitch to his supporters and the SDs.
If he plays his cards right, he might be named Undersecretary of Hipster Angst and Manbuns in the Clinton Administration.
And the Virgin Islands Caucus,Puerto Rico Caucus,ND Caucus and SD and Montana primaries and get 70% of the vote in all June contests,just to tie in pledged delegates.
Josh just posted this on the front page.
It Comes From The Top – The vitriol and pugnacity is coming from the very top, from Bernie himself. So, there.
The Democratic Establishment is pretty corrupt.
So just exactly how are my two Michigan Senators Stabenow and Peters corrupt?
Look like Sanders will net 6 pledged delegates total on the night. So Sanders will need to win 528 pledged delegates out of the remaining 781 pledged delegates left in the remaining contests to simply tie Clinton in pledged delegates heading into the convention. By contrast Clinton will need to pick up only 254 pledged delegates to have the majority heading into the convention.
When it comes to total delegates, Clinton will need 108 more delegates to have a total majority (2,383) heading into the convention.
Or my Senators Merkley and Wyden?
(wry grin)
This is the “crucial message”? This is the original observation? No, the problem starts and ends with voters, who keep acting like they’re above it all, the ones who show up every four years with plenty of lectures to go around. I guess civics is no longer required in high school, because the first thing out of my teacher’s mouth was: “No solution, no problem.”
Everybody tosses out the word “corruption” in that same vague sense when someone tells you, “Well, you know…” and trails off, leaving a person to fill in the negative blanks. Bribes, payoffs, yeah, there’s concrete corruption for you, but everyone talks about Corruption in this moral sense, with the same kind of indignation that’s usually mocked as simplistic or evangelical if anyone else says it.
I don’t know who gave the okay to allow a non-Democrat to run as one, but that person or persons needs to lose his/her job. While we’re fighting the “corruption” of the Democratic establishment, let’s start with the bullshit that once again has let the Democratic Party descend into utter spectacle when they had the one chance to look they had their shit together in the face of the 16-candidate brawl of the GOP. It’s almost as if progressives decided they wanted to join in on the pandemonium.
Here is the early forecast from Benchmark on California.
Here is 538’s.
He has no money, has suspended his ad buys (though he is hinting at starting them up, but again…no money), and has had 3 of his 4 senior staffers working the California campaign leave in the past 2 weeks.
His win in Oregon was far short of what he needed,and woefully short of what many were predicting. He lost Kentucky, what most considered very favorable Bernie territory.
I suspect that this NV fiasco is going to continue to drag him down as well.
He is toast in the 7th. And it will be good riddance.
“The Establishment is corrupt” is a magic word – uttering it somehow makes you feel right and superior. Pretty addictive.