Ezra Klein: "Why Bernie Sanders's rise is more impressive than Donald Trump's"

[Attorney in Texas]

17. I'm with you. I like Clinton and Sanders -- I just prefer Sanders. If Clinton gets the nomination,

I'll be happy to vote for her in the general election, but I hope it does not come to that because I'll be voting for Sanders in the primary.

I think the biggest threat to Sanders' campaign is all of this Biden speculation. The whole discussion about a potential Biden candidacy is based on two false assumptions:

(1) that the Clinton campaign is broken (she's had a bad month but she is still very strong by any objective measure; compare the Clinton campaign to the Bush campaign if you want some context);

(2) and we need someone to offer an alternative to Clinton (Sanders is an excellent alternative to Clinton, and we don't need some white knight to rescue us from having to choose between Clinton and Sanders and O'Malley and Chafee and Webb).