Reasons Why Sanders is Not Winning the Nomination..

[Cha]

Sanders says he has lost primaries to Clinton because ‘poor people don’t vote’

rivers http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141426518

Just his latest lame excuse. It's the Southern States, They're not caucus states, not enough people know about him.. even though he has Mega Million $$$$$$ rallies with thousands of people that do NOT translate into votes.. whose fault is that? Anymore excuses to whine about? How about that interview with the NYDN?! I think we got to know him all too well and how much he doesn't know.

Hillary's Group~Mahalo

[Iliyah]

1. Yep!

[oasis]

2. k and r

[NanceGreggs]

3. Kicked!!!!!

[Cha]

6. Thank you, Nance.. I just edited and added some of the excuses they've come up

with on why he's losing to Hillary.

[UtahLib]

4. Truth! eom

[MFM008]

5. im poor... I voted

just not for him.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. Yup. BS is full of "reasons", among other things.

[Cha]

8. 'Fraid so.

Can you even believe this BS?

Who in the world tries to be so divisive like this in a Dem primary?!!

[stopbush]

9. Because real Ds effing loathe effing Bernie Sanders?

Guessing here.

[Cha]

30. lol.. the way BS, his surrogates, and his fans denigrate Hillary supporters?!

Now why would we ever loathe effing BS?!

stop.. thank you!

[all american girl]

10. K&R Cha

Let's see which voter group goes under the bus after tuesday...I think they are running out

[Cha]

12. That's right American Girl.. BS has already labeled Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign,

and all the member of Congress, who didn't endorse him, as #SoEstablishment.. So. who's left to whine about?!

I think he's covered all the bases of those who prefer the best candidate, Hillary Clinton~

Mahalo~

[ncovington89]

11. It's not over!

He may pull through with the popular vote, and if not he might be chosen by the Superdelegates because he is more electable. Last but not least, there are those who work within the FBI who say an indictment is ahead or at least possible. Sanders is not through.

[KewlKat]

13. Talk about CT

This is the Hillary group.....perhaps you found your way in the wrong group? I doubt your a BSS as you've come awfully late to the game......only 6 posts after months of campaigning?

[Cha]

14. Then I got news for you! BS is So OVER. He's Done, Finished, Through. Gone, History,

Past, Completed.. Kaput.

He doesn't deserve to win.. he doesn't have what it takes to be the President.. I'll be so glad when it's official.

[Princess Turandot]

15. Or Hillary could be abducted by aliens!

That's probably your best bet!

[Cha]

18. LOL.. that's my line. Maybe

I stole it from you?

Turandot~

[BlueMTexpat]

23. Pixie dust will ensure

that this happens, for sure!

[Walk away]

26. Everyone needs a good one of these...

the first thing in the morning!!!

[Cha]

32. lol

[Legends303]

35. He is not pulling through with the popular vote

He has a current deficit of 2.4 million votes in the popular vote and his deficit only increased with his NY lost. I know Sanders supporters like to deny reality but don't make up your own facts.

[jmowreader]

54. He's FAR from being more electable

The last Democratic candidate to run on a platform calling for raising taxes lost 49 states - and Walter Mondale wasn't planning on nationalizing a sixth of the economy like Sanders is.

If Bernie Sanders is our standardbearer we could lose his home state. We WILL lose the other 49.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. His rationalizations are getting more and more pathetic.

Love that pie chart! LOLOL!

[Cha]

17. Oh yeah, that's what it is.. a pie chart.. lol.. a big ol orange ball of pie chart!

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141426518

Surya~Mahalo~

[stonecutter357]

19. K&R!

[Cha]

20. Good Mornin' stonecutter! From the link..

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

Mahalo~

[beachbum bob]

21. older voters don't by is rhetoric....and the fact he has never led anything and only been the guy

on the side lines railing against what is wrong....sanders has only helped sanders

[Cha]

34. "sanders has only helped sanders".. how true, beachbum bob.. It's all about him. We see

that now.. or he wouldn't be coming out with all these lies.

[BlueMTexpat]

22. Spot on!

That's really all it takes - the votes. And Sanders has at least 2.5 million fewer votes than Hillary.

[Cha]

24. Yes, The Voters Love Hillary, Surya~ He has to start coming to terms with that..

Hillary Clinton speaks with attendees during a town hall event at Cumberland United Methodist Church in Florence, S.C.

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/01/468185698/understanding-the-clintons-popularity-with-black-voters

And, stop with the useless excuses he and his team of crack BSrs come up with.. besides that he's either lying or doesn't know what he's talking about, A-gain.

From the link...

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

Mahalo, Blue~Thank you!

[Walk away]

27. Why would Sanders say the votes of these beautiful women don't count!

Little wonder is revolution is over.

[fleabiscuit]

37. Aren't women more likely to be in the 'poor' demographic?

BS doesn't think things through before his lips flap and fingers point does he.

[Cha]

38. NO, he doesn't, flea.. he's full of excuses and that's not all. I'm waiting for him to actually

say something that's true.

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

I just read he said on one of the Sunday shows..

"Democratic Party hasn't been fair to me"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107114117

I cannot wait until that ******* whining hypocrite gets out and goes away.

[Thinkingabout]

25. K & R, again just kick in the teeth of poor people, no, poor people

Are not in the top 6% of wage earners as Sanders, he does not need to kick the largest group in the US.

[Cha]

44. BS doesn't even know what he's whining about.. We "Poor People" Vote for Hillary!

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

Mahalo, Thinking~

[Thinkingabout]

45. Maybe he can convince the 66% of non voters in 2014 to vote for Hillary

In the GE. I personally feel it is terrible more voters do not vote, it foes not cost us to vote. The ones who cry "I don't have anyone exciting to vote for" and they don't run on the issues I like, those same people are not turning out to vote for Sanders and the issues he has proposed.

[DemonGoddess]

28. K&R!

[Her Sister]

29. After carefully studying that pie chart I have to say that

I agree conclusively! lol!!

Thanks for that!

[NurseJackie]

31. Oh that's absolutely BRILLIANT!

And amusing at the same time!

[kstewart33]

33. Cha, love your graphic.

Thanks!

[SharonClark]

36. Great graphic!

[otohara]

39. Complain, Whine, Blame - Repeat

is not a winning strategy.

[Cha]

40. They're all inveterate whiners over their @camp BS. Wonder if they can hear themselves

whine?

Mahalo, otohara~

[pandr32]

41. Sanders is losing

...because of Sanders.

Aloha Cha!

[Cha]

42. It's all on sanders.. he needs to look in the mirror and take personal responsibility

and stop trying to put the blame on everyone under the Sun but himself.

And, stop the gd whining.. it's embarrassing.

Aloha, pandr~

[pandr32]

43. He has always been this way

No way will he take personal responsibility.
Oh well!

[lanlady]

46. He's losing because--

--voters have figured out that he's a professional protester who'd make an ineffective president. It really is that simple!

[Cha]

50. So glad, lanlady!

Thank you!

[Tarheel_Dem]

52. "A professional protestor".

[Cha]

55. I know, huh?

lanlady!

[Gothmog]

47. Sorry, Bernie Sanders. There is zero evidence of your ‘political revolution’ yet

It is my understanding that the reason why Sanders is proposing a number of programs that have no chance of passing is that his revolution will force the GOP in congress to be reasonable. The trouble is that there are no signs of this revolution. revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/10/sorry-bernie-sanders-there-is-zero-evidence-of-your-political-revolution-yet/

Bernie Sanders recorded a resounding victory in New Hampshire's Democratic primary Tuesday. He crushed his rival, Hillary Clinton, with no less than 60 percent of the vote. If Sanders hopes not only to win the election but to achieve his ambitious progressive agenda, though, that might not be enough.

To succeed, Sanders might have to drive Americans who don't normally participate to the polls. Unfortunately for him, groups who usually do not vote did not turn out in unusually large numbers in New Hampshire, according to exit polling data.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

...As for Sanders, he credited his victory to turnout. "Because of a huge voter turnout -- and I say huge -- we won," he said in his speech declaring victory, dropping the "h" in "huge." "We harnessed the energy, and the excitement that the Democratic party will need to succeed in November."

In fact, Sanders won by persuading many habitual Democratic primary voters to support him. With 95 percent of precincts reporting their results as of Wednesday morning, just 241,000 ballots had been cast in the Democratic primary, fewer than the 268,000 projected by New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner last week. Nearly 289,000 voters cast ballots in the state's Democratic primary in 2008.

To be sure, the general election is still seven months away. Ordinary Americans might be paying little attention to the campaign at this point, and if Sanders wins the nomination, he'll have the help of the Democratic Party apparatus in registering new voters. The political revolution hasn't started, though, at least not yet.

Without this revolution, I am not sure how Sanders proposes to advance his unrealistic agenda.

I live in the real world and I simply do not believe that Sanders' agenda is realistic and the lack of any evidence of a Sanders revolution reinforces my opinion

Please vote for the candidate of your choice for any reason that you deem appropriate. Others are free to vote for the candidate of their choice based on the facts as they see them

[Gothmog]

48. Bernie's failed Revolution

The Sanders revolution has been a bust http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-new-york-primary-213829

And yet, the “revolution” that Sanders called for didn’t show up. Clinton’s 16-point New York win is simply the exclamation point. First, electorally, Sanders hasn’t been able to win any states on Clinton’s natural turf, while she picked off states like blue-collar Ohio and quintessentially liberal Massachusetts. Eleven of his 16 state wins were in low-turnout caucus states, while she has dominated well-populated primary states. He struggled to win the votes of older voters and whiffed with Southern African-Americans.
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But on a more important level, Sanders has also failed to substantially change the Democratic Party at its core: its acceptance of big-dollar fundraising and incremental policy advancement. That was a tough task for Sanders, especially considering he had steered clear of the party for most of his political career until his presidential quest (prompting Hillary to remark at one point, “I’m not even sure he is a Democrat”). For all his success at the polls, Sanders’ ideologically pure campaign foundered on the predictable shoals of policy specifics and political feasibility, obstacles that a progressive populist movement will need to overcome to truly succeed.....

Another Sanders misstep was making his campaign look like a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party apparatus—a great strategy for winning left-leaning independents but not so much for the larger pool of registered Democrats.

In January, he downplayed Clinton endorsements from Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Human Rights Campaign as coming from “the establishment.” In a fundraiser email in support of a candidate running in a Nevada House primary, he took a gratuitous swipe at EMILY’s List, a major funder of female Democrats. And instead of working with the Democratic National Committee to raise money for a wider range of congressional candidates, the Sanders campaign attacked Hillary Clinton for doing so at a big-dollar fundraiser hosted by George Clooney.

The cost was a smooth-talking smackdown from Clooney on Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press: “we need to take the Senate back, because we need … that fifth vote on the Supreme Court [to] overturn Citizens United and get this obscene, ridiculous amount of money out so I never have to do a fundraiser again.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-new-york-primary-213829#ixzz46asWEZ2w
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[Sparkly]

49. I think he sums it up in 3 simple terms.

Black people just aren't informed.
Poor people just don't vote.
And people south of DC just don't matter.

[Tarheel_Dem]

58. ^^^ THIS RIGHT HERE ^^^

[redstateblues]

51. It's the Pope's fault because he saw through Bernies naked political gambit

[NastyRiffraff]

53. "Poor people don't vote.."

for Bernie.

Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted. (He has lost by a wider 21 percentage-point margin among voters with incomes above $100,000, and by 9 points among middle income voters.)

Love the graph! Sanders is running out of excuses; the only reason he hasn't used is the only valid one: "not enough votes."

[ismnotwasm]

56. Yes indeed.

[fleabiscuit]

57. Until he changes his reasoning from "people" don’t...

To "I" don't, he's never going to truly understand his revolution is fighting windmills.

[Sancho]

59. Nice chart explains things perfectly

[Gothmog]

60. Bernie Sanders just accidentally explained why his political revolution has failed

Bernie Sanders just admitted that his so-called revolution is a failure. Sanders was unable to motivate and get poor people to vote which doomed his so-called revolution http://www.vox.com/2016/4/25/11497822/sanders-political-revolution-vote

The point of the "political revolution" was that Sanders would change who was turning out to vote

The problem with Sanders saying he's losing because "poor people don't vote," though, is that this wasn't a sad truth that he and his campaign discovered over the last several weeks. It — or rather, the possibility of fixing it — was at the core of his entire theory of winning.

Sanders isn't just running on his policy agenda. He's running on the idea of a "political revolution" that will allow him to accomplish that agenda. The theory of the "political revolution" is that Americans are so eager for free college and Medicare for all that they will not only sweep Bernie Sanders to the White House if he's nominated, but will elect more, and more progressive, Democrats down-ballot will then vote to pass Sanders's agenda through Congress.

Among people who typically vote, these policies aren't that popular. The "political revolution" is only plausible if it's about changing the composition of the electorate: bringing new people to the polls who don't normally vote, even in presidential elections.

But on those grounds, the "political revolution" theory is quite plausible. As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out earlier this month, 30 percent of eligible voters aren't registered to vote, or aren't accurately listed in the voter databases that campaigns use. Those voters are basically ignored by candidates. And, just like the nonvoting population as a whole, they're more likely to be poor than voters are — and more likely to support liberal policies on government spending.

A candidate who can figure out how to reach out to that 30 percent of voters could actually make a political revolution happen — or, at least, bring the median American voter to the left.

Bernie Sanders isn't the candidate who can make the "political revolution" happen

It's hard to mobilize that 30 percent of could-be voters, though. And it's pretty clear, at this point, that Sanders hasn't pulled it off.

Sanders hasn't been pulling in remarkable numbers of first-time primary voters. His base looks a lot like the existing progressive wing of the Democratic Party — the people who voted for Howard Dean over John Kerry and Bill Bradley over Al Gore.

The premise of Sanders' so-called revolution is that he would be able to motivate millions and millions of new voters which Sanders has failed to do.