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Sanders campaign winding down.
Excerpts from the Boston Globe:
To travel with Sanders now — as his chances of capturing the Democratic nomination recede — is to see a politician in transition. He talks more about winning upcoming contests than winning the nomination that once seemed so plausible to his supporters.
Thousands still come to see him — waiting hours — even though the most fervent supporters acknowledge he’s not likely to win.
And the question surrounding him at every turn is: What’s next?
Driving through Kentucky and West Virginia this week there were no Sanders signs in lawns. The field staff in Kentucky was running low on gas money at one point.
The campaign staff has gotten dramatically smaller, with about 200 people laid off last month. Many news organizations have stopped following him.
The fund-raising shrank, too, dipping in April to $26 million from March’s jaw-dropping $44 million.
Sanders’ campaign TV advertising in West Virginia is about as faint as his chances of clinching the nomination: Federal records show that in the state’s largest town he bought a total of three dozen television spots.
The campaign took this weekend off, with Sanders returning to Vermont. He fired off a letter to Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, accusing her of “installing Clinton loyalists” in leading roles on the committees that will oversee the July convention and ignoring most of his suggestions.
Here’s the cruel reality, which was made abundantly clear this week: Even though Sanders bested Clinton in Indiana, the nomination prize actually slid further away. Before votes were tallied, Sanders needed 65 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to overtake Clinton’s edge. Afterward he needed 66 percent.
Does that math seem head-scratching? Yes. But with Indiana done, the pool of remaining pledged delegates grew smaller. That means in order to overcome Clinton’s commanding lead, he needs to win even more of the reduced pot.
The place with enough delegates left for him to overtake her is California, and by then he would probably have to win with an improbable margin of nearly 70 percent of the vote.
Thousands still come to see him — waiting hours — even though the most fervent supporters acknowledge he’s not likely to win.
And the question surrounding him at every turn is: What’s next?
Driving through Kentucky and West Virginia this week there were no Sanders signs in lawns. The field staff in Kentucky was running low on gas money at one point.
The campaign staff has gotten dramatically smaller, with about 200 people laid off last month. Many news organizations have stopped following him.
The fund-raising shrank, too, dipping in April to $26 million from March’s jaw-dropping $44 million.
Sanders’ campaign TV advertising in West Virginia is about as faint as his chances of clinching the nomination: Federal records show that in the state’s largest town he bought a total of three dozen television spots.
The campaign took this weekend off, with Sanders returning to Vermont. He fired off a letter to Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, accusing her of “installing Clinton loyalists” in leading roles on the committees that will oversee the July convention and ignoring most of his suggestions.
Here’s the cruel reality, which was made abundantly clear this week: Even though Sanders bested Clinton in Indiana, the nomination prize actually slid further away. Before votes were tallied, Sanders needed 65 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to overtake Clinton’s edge. Afterward he needed 66 percent.
Does that math seem head-scratching? Yes. But with Indiana done, the pool of remaining pledged delegates grew smaller. That means in order to overcome Clinton’s commanding lead, he needs to win even more of the reduced pot.
The place with enough delegates left for him to overtake her is California, and by then he would probably have to win with an improbable margin of nearly 70 percent of the vote.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/05/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-transition-but-not-smooth-one/I1UW3BZwlbfCoAXX8xjAhN/story.html
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(15,000 in the stadium and the remaining outside).
A zombie campaign that will win West Virginia today.
A zombie campaign that has a chance to shut Clinton out in Oregon.
Gotta love the M$M and Hillary fans. They've been trying to shut Bernie and his supporters' enthusiasm down since Iowa.
Pro-Tip: We don't listen to you guys. We have social media and we will be determining our fate.
Ever watch "Walking Dead?"
The presumptive Republican nominee, too, senses Sanders is useful staying in the race as a wedge to split the Democratic party.
“Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats — both with delegates & otherwise,” Trump posted on his Twitter account Thursday night. “He should show them, & run as an Independent.”
“Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats — both with delegates & otherwise,” Trump posted on his Twitter account Thursday night. “He should show them, & run as an Independent.”
That's unhelpful. And so's this:
...his wife, Jane, needed to tape an interview with Neil Cavuto, of Fox News.
She used the opportunity to blast the Democratic Party. “Bernie is bringing millions of people across the country into the Democratic Party, and yet the Democratic Party shuts the door on them and says: ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ ”
She used the opportunity to blast the Democratic Party. “Bernie is bringing millions of people across the country into the Democratic Party, and yet the Democratic Party shuts the door on them and says: ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ ”
You don't get your way by calling the people in the party who don't agree w/you names. He'd do better if he pivoted and became helpful. The sooner he does that, the better, but he's on his own time line. Nothing anyone says will convince him, save hard numbers and brutal reality.
When the money stops, so will he.
less than what corpo-Hill got in in one Wall Street speech?
