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Last night's Net Delegate haul... (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2016 OP
Thanks apcalc Jun 2016 #1
According to CNN, Clinton has 2,168 brooklynite Jun 2016 #6
According to BernieMath 202, that means that NEITHER candidate can win the nomination. OilemFirchen Jun 2016 #8
A virtual tie PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #2
Every vote for bernie is multiplied by 2. We all know that by now! boston bean Jun 2016 #3
Plus, the well-known, HRC's are only worth .79 each rule PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #4
Who can lose with that kind of math going for them! boston bean Jun 2016 #5
Wow. auntpurl Jun 2016 #7
By the time DC votes, Hillary will have almost enough delegates without the super delegates. Sancho Jun 2016 #9
its the all about ego, I have been saying for weeks, sanders is all about sanders and grasping the beachbum bob Jun 2016 #10
Hi bob ProfessorPlum Jun 2016 #12
Yuuuuge! DCBob Jun 2016 #11
HRC was dominant! n/t texstad79 Jun 2016 #13

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
7. Wow.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 07:42 AM
Jun 2016

Way to close out strong, Madame Nominee!

(With apologies to DC, who I am certain will pad her total even further!)

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
9. By the time DC votes, Hillary will have almost enough delegates without the super delegates.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 08:01 AM
Jun 2016

It's getting silly at this point. This was a complete massacre.

Hillary set a modern record for endorsements by political leaders.

Hillary won the base including unions, diversity organizations, and notables.

Hillary raised the most money.

Hillary won with small group and moderate rallies, a detailed proposal for change, and personal appeal. She didn't print signs or run negative ads. She only ran a small number of ads of any kind.

Hillary won pledged delegate, super delegates, and the votes of people.

Hillary won in the most diverse states, and only lost strange primaries like caucuses not available to some voters, or races where repubs could disrupt the vote by crossing over.

Hillary even helped down ticket candidates.

At this point, calling it a "contested" convention is semantics. There's no contest. Bernie needs to learn from the master like a good grasshopper - and concede gracefully. He needs to hold rallies to support the Democratic nominee. He needs to go after Trump and attack the GOP. He needs to raise money for the progressive Democratic party.

If he does, he may have a job. If not he may end up as the ambassador from Burlington to Denmark - never to be heard from again.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
10. its the all about ego, I have been saying for weeks, sanders is all about sanders and grasping the
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 08:04 AM
Jun 2016

microphone and the spotlight as long as possible.....until he can blackmail his way to be bought off......truth hurts

his real character is no longer hidden and many of his supporters no longer deny it and admit they were mistaken about what sanders is

ProfessorPlum

(11,256 posts)
12. Hi bob
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 08:49 AM
Jun 2016

I want you to think about why Sanders ran. You know that he never really thought he had a chance to beat Clinton - the deck was way stacked in her favor from the beginning. And so, if not to win, why run?

Perhaps to get a message out - that banks don't have to rule us, that corruption can be fought against, that we don't have to monger war, that there exist Democrats who don't want corporations to make every decision for us.

And with the idea that getting that message out is the most important thing, even apart from winning or losing, doesn't it make a little more sense that Sanders would keep his hand on the bullhorn for as long as possible?

his run was always more about education than victory. Look at the type of campaign he ran, and the gentlemanly way he refrained from attacking Clinton in dozens of ways that would have hurt her.

_Thats_ why he has been in it this long - and why people continue to support him. It is his message . .

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