Disappointing, Berners? Sure. NOT Devastating.

vs. Sanders as vs. Obama.

So are the delegates, but the thing is for Bernie to get the nomination he needs to actually win more than small, lily white caucus states and he just isn't doing it and he needs to win big and he isn't.

Hillary Clinton’s Support Among Nonwhite Voters Has Collapsed

Of Clinton’s five post-March 1st Election Day wins, four (Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and North Carolina) were in the South, and were made possible by a level of support among nonwhite voters that Clinton no longer enjoys. Indeed, this coalition was already collapsing when Clinton won in Florida and North Carolina on March 15th. At the polls in North Carolina on Election Day, Clinton won just 52 percent to 48 percent, including the tens of thousands of provisional ballots cast (which, still being counted, have gone, as expected, 57 percent for Senator Sanders). In Florida, the 36-point edge Clinton held in the first three weeks of early voting (February 15th to March 7th) dwindled to a 13.4-point edge among those who made their decision regarding who to vote for from March 8th to March 15th.

In short, the Clinton campaign is in the midst of an historic collapse — much of it due to the unraveling of support for Clinton among nonwhite voters — and the national media has yet to take any notice.

Clinton’s 48-point lead in New York less than two weeks ago is now just a 12-point lead, according to the latest Quinnipiac Poll. That poll shows Sanders with approximately 300 percent more support among African-American voters in New York than he had in Mississippi earlier this month.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/hillary-clintons-support-_b_9579544.html

The English professor should go back to grading English papers. Secretary Clinton won African American voters 75-25 and Hispanic voters 64-36 in New York. Don't take DSB's word for it:


http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/NY/Dem

If these numbers hold and there's no reason to believe they won't Senator Sanders will get shellacked in the Golden State.

And by wasn't I mean wasn't even competitive in. All those southern states that some Sanders supporters discount, Obama won them. Not coincidentally, he won the nomination as well.

Its going to be a laugh riot no doubt!!!!!!!

all the wailing and gnashing of teeth. oh my.

to be their candidate, you know we are in deep trouble.

Bernie Sanders for President

merrily -

When we started this campaign, we were down almost 50 points in New York — the state where Hillary Clinton was elected to two terms in the U.S. Senate.

We didn’t get the victory we had hoped for this evening, but what’s important is that it looks like we’re going to win a lot more delegates in New York than any state that voted or caucused before tonight.

So what does that mean? Five important states vote one week from tonight, with more delegates at stake than Hillary Clinton led by coming into tonight. And if we do well next Tuesday, we remain in a position to take the pledged delegate lead when almost 700 delegates are up for grabs on June 7.

As you read this, thousands of supporters are responding to tonight’s results with contributions because they believe we can win. I need to know if I can count on you to add yours.

Match your previous $-- contribution to our campaign tonight, and we are going to have the resources we need to do very well next week and to take the pledged delegate lead on June 7.

From the day we started this campaign, the corporate media counted us out. The political establishment and financial elite organized against us. But every great movement in American history faced many of the same obstacles and eventually won because of a simple, timeless human truth: when people come together, when they stand together even through adversity, they win.

And so will we.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

merrily needs you to know some stuff:

With the wind at Obama's back, including media and many Party PTB, Obama got a smaller share of the NY vote than did Sanders.

Hillary/Obama in New York 2008: Hillary 57.4% to Obama 40.3% while she defeated Bernie in New York by 57.9%
Hillary/Sanders in New York 2016 Hillary 57.9% to Sanders 42.1% I think Obama was ahead in general going into New York, though.

This is about a Presidential primary, but it is also about so much more.
[url]http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?5448-Sea-changes-in-US-politics-thanks-to-Senator-Sanders-and-his-supporters[/url]

In addition to the sea changes mentioned in the above-linked post, this primary has exposed the corruption of the DNC, some state Democratic parties and the mass media and the lengths to which the PTB will go to protect the status quo. It has also highlighted the absence of democracy inherent in the institution of super delegates and in closed primaries, unreasonable registration deadlines. I believe with all my heart that US politics will either change or people will begin to rise up and change them.

If you give up on Bernie now, you ensure that voters' only choice for the foreseeable the future will be a registered Republican or a registered Republican turned registered Democrat who is not openly racist, homophobic or anti-choice, but who may run a "racially-tinged" political campaign, come out for equal marriage only after the SCOTUS has declared unequal marriage unconstitutional, and offer Constitutional amendments to "compromise" on reproductive choice (or worse, because we are already at what this paragraph describes). Please see also [url]http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php?187-Why-are-Third-Way-Democrats-even-better-for-Wall-Street-than-Republicans-are[/url]

Many primaries remain [url]http://www.mytimetovote.com/2016-Primary-Election-Dates.html[/url] While votes were being counted in that mess last night, Sanders was campaigning in Pennsylvania.

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Couldn't see that coming eh?

I get these emails because I'm a donor.

is my point.

But hey Bernie's brain trust will be happy to spend more of yall's $$$ if you send it to them, I have no doubt!

what I want for my donations.

How about you worry about your own crappy returns on your own "investments?"

Thanks for your concern.

But, you make my point. I am in a position to decide whether or not I am getting what I want for my donations. You are not.

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Last week, many Sandersites were proclaiming that you'd win New York.

Then, within the last few days, the new goal was to keep it in single digits. Indeed, many were so confident of the single digits line that it was shouted up and down the corridors here yesterday as if it was a done deal.

A few of the really deluded ones decided that keeping the Clinton victory less than 20 points or 60% would be a total "humiliation" for Clinton! Talk about being able to read a trend line but not being able to interpret it!

Clinton took New York by 16 points. Sanders didn't win a county south of the Tappan Zee. He got shellacked in New York City, losing all five boroughs YUUUUUUGGE. The commuter counties also went big for Clinton, including Suffolk!

And now, we're at the old Republican canard of evaluating land mass in an election.

Needless to say, the margin of victory in some counties (Queens County, for example) swamps the total vote in many of the others (we could do the analysis, but it really is a monumental waste of time).

We do wonder how many states Bernie will have to lose next week for it to be "devastating." What if he loses all of them?

Ridiculous isn't it? SMH

It's Democrats who do not.

Substantial win, not a large delegate gain.

Proportional allocation is part of the reality that makes it so difficult for Bernie to mount a comeback. Funny that we don't hear his supporters talk about small net delegate hauls after a YUGE win in Wyoming.

negativity about Hillary coming from her supporters, nor would I expect to.

That's the R argument. ( look at all that red!). It's about votes.

Instead she had to campaign hard and rely on voter suppression to win. Having competition is making her campaign spend a lot more money than it had anticipated. Bottom line is that she's going broke and still has a fight in front of her, hence all the calls for Bernie to drop out for the good of the party.

This is too important. And it's about more than the nomination.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511507143