Bernie Underground is already predicting "fraud" on Tuesday

[jmowreader]

Because as we all know, the only way anyone could beat the Wise and Benevolent Senator Sanders is by screwing with the vote totals.

[shenmue]

1. Yeah

[UtahLib]

2. Yeah, somebody should keep an eye on bernie operatives. nt

[MADem]

3. In most places I've heard it's called "Snow."

Maybe they don't like precipitation...?

[FarPoint]

4. My intuitive alarm goes off way too often these days...

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Something is peculiar with the Sanders Campaign message..I think there is a puppet master behind the curtain....

[jmowreader]

9. I think you're right...

...and he probably has wild hair.

[George II]

13. The Wizard of Burlington

[stonecutter357]

5. K&R!

[leftofcool]

6. There are about 5 threads on the subject. But, we knew this was coming.

[Thinkingabout]

7. Maybe in the wrong mindset here, sometimes when you think

Conspiracy then you operate with conspiracy. Cognitive dissonance.

[bluestateguy]

8. They are covering their bases

If he wins (which is likely), then it's a clean, fair and transparent election, and the will of the people.

Anything less, or a narrow Bernie win, is "fraud".

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Spot on! eom

[Stuckinthebush]

21. If he doesn't win by 15

Then they wails peculiar about fraud.

It's pathetic

[OhZone]

11. There are a few reasons why the polls are tightening -

like the fact that Republicans are deciding to vote in their own primary since it's closer than they thought.

Yeah, OPEN primaries are a problem.

Oh well.

[Treant]

14. Snow and Wind predicted

that evening as well, turning weaker-motivated voters from likely to unlikely in the polls.

Independents also seem to be choosing to vote in the (hotly contested) Republican primary as well. Why, I'm not sure, but I was registered Repub in PA for the longest time to vote in primaries for the least-crazy Republican (then Dem in the Generals). Eventually all the Repubs were crazy and I changed my registration.

[peggysue2]

12. Sad and Not Productive

Regardless of the results, this isn't doing their candidate any great service. Bernie Sanders has a message, legitimate in my mind. But some of his supporters are diminishing the man and the message with this line of attack and nonsense. In fact, I wonder how many of the loyalists [the seething, insulting sort] are truly members of the Democratic Party.

We can agree to disagree but crying 'fraud' when you don't get the result you wish is . . . counterproductive.

Anyway this goes, we're going to have to coalesce around a single candidate and fight like hell for the WH and the majority. For me, that's HRC but Clinton taught me an important lesson years ago. By her own personal example.

I hated [and I mean hated] the result of the 2008 primary but Hillary Clinton was able to put the hard feelings aside and work for Barack Obama's election, and then [remarkably] join the Administration as SOS. It took me awhile to get my head around that but I came to see the moral strength in her decision.

That's why I still support her in 2016. But once the dust settles, I'm still my grandfather's girl, a Democrat from head to toe, ready to knock the naysayers, the Union busters and climate deniers flat. And laugh like hell while I'm doing it.

[Cha]

17. I agree.. Welcome to Hill's Group, Hill~

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Welcome to DU

Agreed about the personal example of HRC.

[Agnosticsherbet]

18. Independents can swing the election. If they decide to vote in the Republican Race

it would likely be bad for Sanders.

If Sanders looses, I suspect it will be the independents choosing to vote on the Republican side.

I am interested in seeing which side has the most energy. In Iowa, the majority of the energy and excitement was among the Republican Electorate, but Iowa is a very different pickle than New Hampshire.

[jmowreader]

20. Sanders' support is primarily from Independents

Bona fide Registered Democrats are breaking for Hillary.

One of the Bernie Underground denizens told me, "history will be made." Okay, what you are telling me is, a candidate on the Democratic ballot who despised and refused to join the Democratic Party until he had to, and who isn't pulling support from registered Democrats, African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, women, anyone over 30, anyone whose education ended at high school and anyone who went past a bachelor's degree is going to figure out how to unite all the people who don't like him to vote for him. Yeah, that WILL be kinda historic.

[NurseJackie]

19. Well, that's something that's easy to see coming from miles away.