2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am not bothering with the story we just ran [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Indeed, they keep providing Clinton with her margin of victory. Last night, Sanders lost Miami-Dade (by 50 points!), Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Chicago Proper by more than the statewide margin (remember when people were saying the Clinton-Rahm connection would win Sanders Chicago? Neee-ope), St. Louis city, St. Louis County, and Jackson County (Kansas City). We'll leave out the ass whipping his campaign received in every major city in North Carolina, and the rest of the cities in Florida (he lost nearly 2-1 in Tampa!). It's not even fair.
So what's this roadmap to victory? It goes through Philadelphia? Is Philly going to be the first major city Sanders wins? It's going to go through Baltimore? Baltimore? Sanders is going to win New York 55-45? Where? In New York City? Really?
The only cities with a major league baseball team Sanders have won have been Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Those were caucuses. I mean, truly, congratulations on those, but I really don't see this vaunted "favorable map" when the Sanders campaign seems singularly unable to win a major urban area in an election. How?