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PATRICK

(12,228 posts)
3. Clinton's awkward position
Mon May 16, 2016, 03:59 AM
May 2016

is that she has to bury the Sanders candidacy and ALL his platform reform issues and somehow "unite" the party. Obviously she is NOT comfortable enough to even try that, is not interested or really has no clue. A slight barrier is that her donors MIGHT assume she is suckering the leftees but that the delegates by now will certainly not be so easily convinced.

She has already lost in two ways. The strength and inevitability and unity of message has evaporated simply by Sanders' CURRENT showing. She is absolutely incapable of giving enough credit to the Sanders people to pull this off. Please show me I am wrong about this! If Sanders was to bow down now would she suddenly be gracious toward liberal policies and start erasing the snowballing negatives?

It will be interesting to see which party is stupid enough to come out divided in June- or both- possibly giving a third party a golden path for the first time in American history. Except for some unreasonable blind faith in amorphous Dems doing kumbaya I have heard nothing of sense regarding our true present state.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
5. A meaningful chunk of the Democratic Party may just walk away for good.
Mon May 16, 2016, 06:26 AM
May 2016

They think Sanders supporters will just abandon their principles once the Primary is over. Sure, many will, but many will not.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
9. The Greens would win. Handily.
Mon May 16, 2016, 11:38 AM
May 2016

Should Bernie switch and go with Jill Stein, it would be an awesome ticket (and I think she'd be the VP in that scenario).

Personally, I wouldn't put any sort of shenanigans past the DNC, including cheating every way possible, and/or throwing the nomination to Biden. It won't make any difference to me, as I won't vote for him. He hasn't done a darn thing to prove himself in this election cycle, except to start kissing DNC ass.

I think Bernie will have enough delegates that trying to cheat him out of the nomination would start riots and have massive consequences the DNC does not want to deal with when they're facing Trump.

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in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
12. Nevada fraud for 2 delegates would never have happened if the queen 👑 had this locked down and
Mon May 16, 2016, 12:59 PM
May 2016

Clinton THUGS trying to change rules at the Democrats Abroad convention for 1 freakin' delegate wouldn't have happened if she thought she had this won.

SHE KNOWS BETTER, WE KNOW BETTER!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

TBF

(32,062 posts)
13. Yes we definitely got the gist of it in Nevada -
Mon May 16, 2016, 01:04 PM
May 2016


Now the millennials are seeing what we're really up against. We are right back in 1968. All I can say is that I'd like Nina Turner leading the charge (because she is calm & we are going to need to keep our wits), and I want Bernie protected. I don't trust Clinton's campaign one inch.
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