As California primary nears, even Sanders supporters are uniting behind Clinton and against a common

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As California primary nears, even Sanders supporters are uniting behind Clinton and against a common enemy: Trump

By David Lauter•Contact Reporter at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-latimes-democratic-primary-poll-20160328-story.html

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“Clinton’s challenge is not one of persuasion, it’s one of motivation,” said Dan Schnur, director of USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. “She’s not going to get Sanders supporters to fall in love with her,” he added, but “the other way to motivate your base is to frighten them about the alternative. Against Donald Trump, that should be very doable.”

That’s certainly the case for Gretta Whalen, a 32-year-old freelance writer and communications consultant from Los Angeles, who leans toward Sanders. Clinton, she said, “has been around for so long, and we know so much about her, and not all of it is positive.” Sanders, by contrast, seems attractive, and his ideas feel new, even if “some of them are very pie in the sky and would be very difficult to get the rest of the country on board with.”

But, she added, as she paused from feeding her newborn son, the contest is different “now that we’re looking at a likely race against Donald Trump.” She and her friends, most of whom back Sanders, “are all so shocked that we’re in this place where Donald Trump is a serious contender for president,” she said. Compared with past elections, this campaign “feels a little more surreal.”

“I was much more excited about Bernie” earlier in the campaign season, she added. “We love him as a candidate. We also recognize that he’s not the most realistic winner.”

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The other significant division in the primary is by party. California’s Democratic primary is open to registered Democrats as well as voters who decline to state a party. Clinton leads Sanders by 14 percentage points among registered Democrats; Sanders leads by 9 percentage points among the nonpartisan voters — again a pattern seen repeatedly in other states.



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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. More baloney

[peacebird]

2. M$M feeding the Delusional hopes of Hillary supporters....

[malokvale77]

9. When will they ever understand?

If we were that stupid, we would have been supporting her from the get go.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. And with that Sword of Damocles hanging over her head,

and Bernie's run of victories out West, and the California primary still more than 2 months away, why would Bernie supporters change horses in the middle of this raging stream?

[rachacha]

3. Laughable; I'm laughing. nt.

[bobbobbins01]

4. Said nobody ever.

Is today opposite day? Why wasn't I informed?

[malokvale77]

5. No they are not.

Bernie supporters know that he beats Trump by a bigger margin.

Quit deluding yourself.

[jfern]

6. Bernie beats Trump by 24 points nationwide in Ann Selzer's poll

[dchill]

7. "...that should be very doable.”

not.

[Trajan]

8. Yeah. . And he's gonna lose Michigan by 60 points ...

Uh huh ....

[2banon]

10. Southern California Yeah, no doubt, But not Northern California

Lots of Reagan Dems in So Cal. They'll vote for Hillary.

and maybe a number of hollywood Berners,

But Bernie supporters writ large? I rather doubt it.

There's a reason why we're Bernie Supporters, and it ain't about rainbows and unicorns.

[bkkyosemite]

11. There is no understanding in all this...none..........

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Wishful thinking or whistling past the graveyard? It hardly matters.

nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. June really came fast. and I missed my deadline to file my taxes

SHIT!

Oh wait, it is March 28... phew!!!!

Though the party is actually divided.

[malokvale77]

17. Ha ha...

I had a giggle.

Thank you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. You welcome

[malokvale77]

19. I always appreciate you. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I appreciate you too

[nc4bo]

14. So HRC campaign attached itself to Obama now it's

Attaching itself to Sanders (again).

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[840high]

15. Nope.