Democrats can be their own worse enemy sometimes

[angrychair]

If you cannot win Independents, you lose everything. Sanders has carried Independents in every state so far.
In MI he carried Independents by 43 points. Today, if she can't carry IL or OH or worse cannot attract Independents, if Sanders carries Independents in OH than that is your candidate if you want to win the GE.
It is an insidious trap we can get mired in during the nomination process. You get trapped into thinking that this is about winning the nomination process and then about winning the General Election. It's not. It is always about winning the General Election. Many of you are determined to pick a candidate for a world that no longer exist. Canada knows it. Australia know it. Most countries in Europe know it. Centrist-corporatist just is not the direction the world needs or wants.
We're in this to win this election and 2018 and 2020 and 2022 and on. Not me, us. For everyone. In 2016, we are in this to win the General Election and pull as many Democrats down-ticket as we can into the House and Senate. Bernie Sanders is how you do that.

#VoteTogether
#TomorrowMatters

[nashville_brook]

1. i'm in FL -- indies/NPAs can't vote for Sanders in here (closed primary)

but there's been a big campaign to address this b/c the conventional wisdom is that this doesn't break well for Sanders. i'm looking at the SoE site for my county and the Dem registration is about 50K more than it was last cycle. unfortunately there's no way to tell if this is from NPAs switching.

doing a google search, i easily found the R county next-door reports a surge in R registration.

[angrychair]

2. Forgot FL was a closed primary.

Thanks! I edited my OP to remove that. It would be interesting to see how the "last minute" registrations (new registrations for this primary) play out in various counties based on who wins them.

[nashville_brook]

3. something that's been a real surprise to me

is the support from the hispanic community for Sanders. it's been overwhelming. i'm in central FL which has a progressive hispanic community...Alan Grayson country. will be interesting to see how South Florida breaks.

it's going to be a busy night analyzing data.