Bernie's South Carolina surrender

[book_worm]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — With just a few days left until the South Carolina Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders is all but writing the state off.

He hasn’t said that, of course, but his schedule reflects it.

Sanders was in Massachusetts Monday night and Virginia Tuesday morning. While he attended a televised town hall in South Carolina Tuesday night and followed with an early-morning press conference, his itinerary Wednesday consisted of events in Kansas City, Missouri, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. After that, his schedule called for a trip to Ohio Thursday -- with stops in other March-voting states likely to be added, said an aide.

A candidate’s time is a campaign’s most precious resource, so by spending so much of it somewhere other than South Carolina, the Sanders campaign is engaging in the cold calculus of primary politics – making the tough decision to send the senator to the states where he figures to be the most competitive.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-schedule-219708#ixzz416AWaUkM

Even with the polls overwhelmingly against her in New Hampshire--HRC campaigned hard there.

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[workinclasszero]

2. Hightailed it across the stateline eh Bernie?

Good move, see you on March 1st!

You can run, but you can't hide!

[Thinkingabout]

3. Hillary will be everywhere and for everyone.

She is not pushing anyone away, showing she wants to be everyone's president.

[CajunBlazer]

4. Notice Sanders is essentially conseding all of the other Southern as well

Over a thousand delegates are at stake and If Sanders gets beat by large margins in big delegate states like Georgia and Texas, that not a good thing for his campaign.

[jmowreader]

7. ESPECIALLY since she's already a fifth of the way there, and only three states have voted

[yallerdawg]

5. Hillary is fighting for every vote.

The 2008 Obama campaign taught her to take care of this primary, not the next.

And if she crushes in South Carolina, she'll know where to go for the March 1 primaries!

[William769]

6. Just goes to show he doesn't give a shit for the people of South Carolina.

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His MO is so predictable. It's me or screw you!.

[LuvLoogie]

8. I don't think that's it.

His main promise to his supporters is to take his campaign all the way to the convention.

What we are seeing is the difference between decades of cultivating relationships and Johnny Come Lately populism.

In national politics you have to lay the groundwork, inspire commitment over the long haul. Bernie is on his first date, so to speak, with the national electorate.

[BlueCaliDem]

9. I wonder if he'll keep his promise. The numbers don't look good for him and I don't think

he's the kind of man who'd want to run in a campaign that loses one State after another. It can look...sad.

[CajunBlazer]

10. I disagree, never underestimate a true believer who....

...finely has a national megaphone he can use to broadcast what he believes is his life's work to the voters in this country. Being the only other candidate for the Democratic nomination is the bulliest pulpit he will ever have.

I think He will hang around just as long as he is able to convince his donors to send him money to keep his campaign gong. That's why he abandoning the Southern stated and instead is putting all of his efforts into trying to get a few wins in the March 1st primaries instead of trying to keep down the number of delegates Hillary will pile up.

Wins are necessary to impress supporters that there is hope yet that his campaign will rebound later. He knows that even if he keeps Hillary's delegate lead down to a minimum in those primaries, but loses most of the states, his supporters might abandon him as a lost cause.

[book_worm]

12. I agree--he will go all the way even with a few wins

as long as he accumulates delegates even if he doesn't get enough to win the nomination.

[Yavin4]

11. Remember this is a man whose entire legislative strategy hinges on a "political revolution" where

millions and millions of Americans swarm the nation's capital and demand free college and single payer health care. Yet, he runs from states like S.C.