NEW YORKER: Can Bernie Sanders Really Win the Nomination

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/can-bernie-sanders-really-win-the-nomination?intcid=mod-most-popular

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"Sanders and his supporters point out, with quite a bit of justification, that the pundits and the betting markets have underestimated him all along. Before Saturday, who would have predicted that Sanders would best Clinton by sixty-four percentage points in Alaska, forty-six points in Washington, and forty points in Hawaii?

The Sanders campaign is an impressive phenomenon, and in states like New York and California it is still growing. While out shopping on Third Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday, I came across hundreds of Sanders supporters, almost all of them young, who had gathered to mark the opening of a local campaign office. The candidate was thousands of miles away in Wisconsin, and the results from the Western states were still hours away, but a large crowd of his followers had given up their Saturday mornings to express their support for him."

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[rhett o rick]

1. We have known this all along. More than a million people have come out to participate all across

the country for Sanders. I wonder what Clinton's totals are. She prefers small events where she gets big bucks. It's obvious where her priorities are.

[RoccoR5955]

2. Bernie SHALL win NY.

Even though Clinton was senator, folks here consider her a carpetbagger. She only won the election because the alternative was so repugnant.

I see no support for Clinton. No bumper stickers, no yard signs, nobody talking about her.
I DO see plenty of yard signs, buttons and bumper stickers for Bernie though, here in the Hudson Valley.

As a matter of fact, with all the Bernie signs on my road, we are thinking of changing our little section Bernieville.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. That is so heartening to hear, Rocco

I grew up in Westchester County and have vivid memories of all the "I LIKE IKE" buttons. Of course, that was back in the 19th Century.

[mooseprime]

4. thanks for this comment! way

out here in wash state you kind of can't help feeling that 'the fix is in' for clinton in ny. between the ties to the financial movers and all the politicos she's no doubt picked up along the way, a bernie victory feels fairly improbable. i'll donate twice as much as i was going to...this week.

[davidpdx]

5. I am really worried about Wisconsin and NY

If Bernie can win both he's going to make it a close race. I won't even ponder the other side, too depressing.

[Capt.Rocky300]

6. Bernie SHALL win NY.

And so it shall be. Rocco has commanded it!

[PATRICK]

7. NYS

First of all their may be silence from the state leadership due toi interest that are local and entwined. Groups like Working Families Party(who though cannot vote if not registered Dem, many if not most are solely to infuence primaries) are mainly influential as a pressure on Albany. The mayor of NYC is a true progressive. No thumb on the scale or enthusiastic support will come from that quarter.
In a Dem primary she could easily lose the state from that quarter alone without even an endorsement. The negatives upstate floating from the GOP region do seem to work against her more than any other Dem issue or person. There is no legion of diehard support here worth mentioning. Sanders on the other hand...

The governor might do more harm than good and do himself no favors within the state by anything more than a bland endorsement of Clinton. Judging by the reality gap from certain polls showing Hillary in the lead, we might surmise, excepting any large voter suppression technique we can hardly imagine here, Sanders is well in the lead.

A wipeout would be nice and certainly more to be expected than any such thing happening to thank the erstwhile Senator from NYS and friend of Wall Street.

[Land of Enchantment]

8. Encouraging news-anything can happen-keep the faith. nt