The Reverend points out that it's ironic to hear Bernie bragging about getting 30 percent of the black vote.
"Bernie Sanders may have improved his standing among black voters in Michigan, but that's not going to be enough to support him in a general election, Rev. Al Sharpton cautioned reporters on Thursday morning."
"He has not resonated with African-American voters," Sharpton said of Sanders while at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington. "Thirty percent of the black vote is good for a Republican but it isn't good for a progressive Democrat."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sharpton-sanders-is-failing-with-black-voters/article/2585462?custom_click=rss
I think part of Bernie's problem is that he never looks inwardly to explain this. He assumes that the reason he loses is people haven't heard him yet. But he's been campaigning for 11 months.
For Tad Devine to chalk it all up to HRC being the First Lady of Arkansas is absurd.
The more you think about Michigan, the more absurd is Bernie's claim that it was a game changer. We hear a lot about his alternate route to the nomination.
Winning in NY, California, doing the same thing in Ohio he did in Michigan. The cautionary tale is that Hillary won all these states in 2008. But she couldn't make up the deficit from the South. And Obama didn't win the Southern states overall by the margin HRC has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
She won NY in 2008 by 14 points. I very much doubt he can win NY. I imagine if he did win it would be closer than that. And her 14 point win didn't help her.
The idea that for her to lose a single contest by under 2 points somehow proves she's not on a glide path to the nomination is an absurd overreaction.
Here is the real problem: the Democratic races are all proportional.
"Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, those are the states that if you're sanders that you’ve got to be looking at to keep the Michigan momentum going," said Mike Fraioli, a longtime Democratic fundraiser whose clients have strong ties to organized labor. "If [delegate awarding is] all proportional, unless he just absolutely clobbers Hillary Clinton in one or all of those, which is unlikely, he’s going to continue to gain delegates but I don’t think he can gain enough delegates to catch her. He will gain delegates and be relevant at the convention, but I think that’s as best as it can go."
http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/bernie-sanders-nomination-chances/#FLLPSw7cwOq0
Wins aren't enough, they have to be huge blowouts. Which is not in the cards outside of his white, rural states.
"Bernie Sanders may have improved his standing among black voters in Michigan, but that's not going to be enough to support him in a general election, Rev. Al Sharpton cautioned reporters on Thursday morning."
"He has not resonated with African-American voters," Sharpton said of Sanders while at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington. "Thirty percent of the black vote is good for a Republican but it isn't good for a progressive Democrat."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sharpton-sanders-is-failing-with-black-voters/article/2585462?custom_click=rss
I think part of Bernie's problem is that he never looks inwardly to explain this. He assumes that the reason he loses is people haven't heard him yet. But he's been campaigning for 11 months.
For Tad Devine to chalk it all up to HRC being the First Lady of Arkansas is absurd.
The more you think about Michigan, the more absurd is Bernie's claim that it was a game changer. We hear a lot about his alternate route to the nomination.
Winning in NY, California, doing the same thing in Ohio he did in Michigan. The cautionary tale is that Hillary won all these states in 2008. But she couldn't make up the deficit from the South. And Obama didn't win the Southern states overall by the margin HRC has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
She won NY in 2008 by 14 points. I very much doubt he can win NY. I imagine if he did win it would be closer than that. And her 14 point win didn't help her.
The idea that for her to lose a single contest by under 2 points somehow proves she's not on a glide path to the nomination is an absurd overreaction.
Here is the real problem: the Democratic races are all proportional.
"Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, those are the states that if you're sanders that you’ve got to be looking at to keep the Michigan momentum going," said Mike Fraioli, a longtime Democratic fundraiser whose clients have strong ties to organized labor. "If [delegate awarding is] all proportional, unless he just absolutely clobbers Hillary Clinton in one or all of those, which is unlikely, he’s going to continue to gain delegates but I don’t think he can gain enough delegates to catch her. He will gain delegates and be relevant at the convention, but I think that’s as best as it can go."
http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/bernie-sanders-nomination-chances/#FLLPSw7cwOq0
Wins aren't enough, they have to be huge blowouts. Which is not in the cards outside of his white, rural states.
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