When you're running for your LIFE, you don't quit at the halfway mark!

[BigBearJohn]

Only in THIS case, Bernie is running for ALL OUR lives. And God bless him for it. GO BERNIE!! I'm right beside you. We will carry you across the finish line if we have to.

[DrDan]

1. long after the winner has moved on the the championship race

[pdsimdars]

2. Just remember, when he was a young man he was a long distance runner.

So he has some experience even there.

[salinsky]

3. He's going the distance ...

[Trust Buster]

4. It's a simple, traditional negotiation. The losing candidate has a simple choice to make.

Graciously tip your hat in favor of the presumptive nominee and receive influence over the Party platform and a role at the convention or foolishly refuse to acknowledge the presumptive nominee and watch the influence over the platform and role at the convention decline precipitously. It's a simple choice as old as politics.

[virtualobserver]

5. or he can go into the convention leading Hillary in the national Democratic polls....

that would be revolutionary.

[Trust Buster]

6. No, he lost. Votes trump polls. Civics 101.

[virtualobserver]

9. Not if he keeps rising. His numbers rise in every state that he campaigns in.

That is democracy 101.

[Trust Buster]

11. He's falling farther and farther behind in votes and delegates. Polls are irrelevant.

[virtualobserver]

13. If Bernie goes into the convention leading in the polls, it WILL be relevant.

[Trust Buster]

14. Please learn your government civics.

[Buzz Clik]

18. Hillary's lead in the polls has not change for the entire month of April.

[azurnoir]

7. Lol as if...........

[Trust Buster]

8. It's historical fact. It's up to Sanders what he chooses to do with his political capital.

He can squander it for all I care.

[azurnoir]

10. IMO Hillary will say anything to get votes period Obama had that one right

when it comes to what she will actually do well let's look back to '90's when she was co-presidenting with her husband

[Trust Buster]

12. Totally off the topic but whatever.

[azurnoir]

15. Not really you were going on about how Bernie needs to concede to have influence on DNC/Hilary

my point is that any appearance of influence is just that an appearance

[Vincardog]

22. Who has the required number of deligates to win the nomination now?

[Buzz Clik]

16. He's running for his life? Please explain.

[COLGATE4]

19. No. It's just more 'I heart Bernie' pseudo-enthusiasm

for the Lost Cause. The canonization process is well underway.

[Buzz Clik]

21. I wondered if a grizzly bear or organized crime was involved somehow.

[COLGATE4]

28. My money's on it being a grizzly. nt

[Orsino]

23. It's not about Sanders.

This is about all of our lives, and we are not anywhere near the half-way mark. We are competing for the chance to begin to make urgently-needed progressive change.

If this were a cult of personality, we would have elevated a candidate with more personality.

No, Sanders is a symptom of the hunger for progress, and I hope, hope, hope that one day the Establishment front-runner will twitch an eyebrow in the direction of our needs.

[Buzz Clik]

24. Your post is 100% better than the OP. Thank you. And this:

I don't think you are giving the front-runner much credit. We all worry about some aspects of her past, but don't lose site of some of the amazing stances she's taken and effort she's made to move things forward. I truly hope she has no abandoned that core.

[Orsino]

25. I dunno. The most amazing of her stances...

...were no longer amazing by the time she took them. She's been a follower more than a leader, alas.

I understand that as a woman she has had to be ten times more cautious than a man, and ten times as hawkish and "tough" on minorities. I believe that her talents would have made her a national figure in her own right, and she would be a better person and leader, IMO, had she not married Bill Clinton.

The doors to the White House, however, have long been closed to women. If this is how we have to get over that last hurdle, so be it.

[LiberalElite]

17. HELL YEAH! nt

[Surya Gayatri]

20. Better build up those pecs and abs. It's gonna be a hard lift and carry.

Apparently, bench presses are really effective.

[haikugal]

26. Many hands make light work and Bernie has them without having to buy them. We've got this!

[Faux pas]

27. And, when you're going through

hell, you keep going!