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Showing Original Post only (View all)Analysis: Why Winning California Will Not Be Easy For Bernie Sanders [View all]
But organizing a state with more than 7.4 million Democrats and an additional 4.1 million nonpartisan voters who can cast Democratic ballots this year is a giant exercise unlike any Sanders has pulled off in the campaign so far, as he conceded in Wednesdays interview.
Essentially he is trying to do what Barack Obama could not do in his 2008 primary battle here with Clinton and doing it without Obamas strength among African American voters.
"Her coalition is very similar to what it was in 2008," said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign aide in 2008 and now a California-based Clinton backer. "And shell probably do so much better than she did with African Americans, now that President Obama isnt in the race."
Arizona, where Clinton won on Tuesday, is a far smaller state than California, though its demographic makeup is somewhat similar. The results there were not good news for the Vermont senator particularly if they are replicated to the west.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-california-primary-20160324-story.html
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Analysis: Why Winning California Will Not Be Easy For Bernie Sanders [View all]
bravenak
Mar 2016
OP
No not true. These are proportional promaries. Both candidates pic up delegates. Before Tuesday
upaloopa
Mar 2016
#83
I thought the race was over? Why are you bothering posting about California?
ThePhilosopher04
Mar 2016
#3
Arizona has those too, they just figured more people were using them...
sweetloukillbot
Mar 2016
#59
Absolutely nothing about Sanders' campaign run would be easy. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
nc4bo
Mar 2016
#12
Not to mention that I will phone bank for Hillary in my county of Santa Barbara
upaloopa
Mar 2016
#27
I applied to the United Farm Workers headquarters in Keene, as a accountant after that position and
upaloopa
Mar 2016
#67
In the face of a possible Donald Trump or Ted Cruz White House, I am amazed
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#38
Trump or Cruz will be happy to hear you are making it easier for them to destroy the planet
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#53
Yes. I think that his rhetoric leave some of us demographically challenged folks
bravenak
Mar 2016
#50
Let me guess...massive early voting coupled with greatly reduced polling places,
NorthCarolina
Mar 2016
#81