For the record, he is losing Michigan by a mile.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-race-bernie-just-doesnt-get-it.html
Politico's Glenn Thrush has a new interview with Bernie's campaign manager, Tad Stevens.
Stevens sounds a little more realistic than some of the comments made by Bernie and others on his campaign team publicly.
"But it hasn’t been enough to stop Clinton, not nearly enough, and the delegate math of the next six weeks does not add up to a Sanders candidacy. The big blow, Devine says, was Sanders’ 5-point loss in the Nevada last month that Devine and Co. view, a gut-punch and game-changer. The campaign, flush with online cash but lacking an established ground operation to spend it on, out-spent Clinton, to no effect. He blames himself for the loss, in part for not finding a just-right message to get out 20,000 more voters – and he admits that Nevada led to a wholesale strategic reassessment, the abandonment of a quick-knockout strategy and the adoption of a far less certain approach that boils down to raising heaps of online cash, fighting state-by-state and hoping for a big break."
"And while other Sanders officials say they intend to fight through the biggest contest of them all, California in June, Devine suggested that the campaign might reassess its position a little sooner – especially if Sanders loses Michigan on Tuesday, as polls suggest he will."
“We’re going to try to beat her in pledged delegates… [but] it’s going to be hard. It’s going to be tough,” he tells me when I ask him how long this thing will last. “Now, you know, we’re not going to know the answer to that, really, until, I’d say, maybe the middle of April, OK? Not the middle of March. You know, we’ll see where we are then, to make that decision.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/tad-devine-inside-bernie-sanders-campaign-220357#ixzz42Dv2wRDh
The idea that they would every have a quick knockout was absurd. They had honestly believed that as NH went, so would the rest of the country. I wonder if they were reading JA Goodman.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/ha-goodmans-southern-strategy-for.html
Everyone always says that Trump is purely momentum. There was a hopeful belief for the longest time that if he lost Iowa, he'd lose everywhere.
But if anything, the real momentum campaign was Bernie's. There was this idea that all you had to do was dent HRC's 'inevitability' and all the states would fall for Bernie like dominos. Goodman evidently thought he'd win every state.
So the Bernie theory of the race was never realistic.
But Stevens at least suggests that maybe they won't go through to California as BS won't win. See what we hear from them tomorrow after they lose Michigan and Mississippi.
P.S. Stevens does admit that the real difference is that Bernie represents those progs who were disappointed in Obama.
This is the problem. Most Dems are pleased with the President and want to build on his achievements not start over.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-race-bernie-just-doesnt-get-it.html
Politico's Glenn Thrush has a new interview with Bernie's campaign manager, Tad Stevens.
Stevens sounds a little more realistic than some of the comments made by Bernie and others on his campaign team publicly.
"But it hasn’t been enough to stop Clinton, not nearly enough, and the delegate math of the next six weeks does not add up to a Sanders candidacy. The big blow, Devine says, was Sanders’ 5-point loss in the Nevada last month that Devine and Co. view, a gut-punch and game-changer. The campaign, flush with online cash but lacking an established ground operation to spend it on, out-spent Clinton, to no effect. He blames himself for the loss, in part for not finding a just-right message to get out 20,000 more voters – and he admits that Nevada led to a wholesale strategic reassessment, the abandonment of a quick-knockout strategy and the adoption of a far less certain approach that boils down to raising heaps of online cash, fighting state-by-state and hoping for a big break."
"And while other Sanders officials say they intend to fight through the biggest contest of them all, California in June, Devine suggested that the campaign might reassess its position a little sooner – especially if Sanders loses Michigan on Tuesday, as polls suggest he will."
“We’re going to try to beat her in pledged delegates… [but] it’s going to be hard. It’s going to be tough,” he tells me when I ask him how long this thing will last. “Now, you know, we’re not going to know the answer to that, really, until, I’d say, maybe the middle of April, OK? Not the middle of March. You know, we’ll see where we are then, to make that decision.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/tad-devine-inside-bernie-sanders-campaign-220357#ixzz42Dv2wRDh
The idea that they would every have a quick knockout was absurd. They had honestly believed that as NH went, so would the rest of the country. I wonder if they were reading JA Goodman.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/ha-goodmans-southern-strategy-for.html
Everyone always says that Trump is purely momentum. There was a hopeful belief for the longest time that if he lost Iowa, he'd lose everywhere.
But if anything, the real momentum campaign was Bernie's. There was this idea that all you had to do was dent HRC's 'inevitability' and all the states would fall for Bernie like dominos. Goodman evidently thought he'd win every state.
So the Bernie theory of the race was never realistic.
But Stevens at least suggests that maybe they won't go through to California as BS won't win. See what we hear from them tomorrow after they lose Michigan and Mississippi.
P.S. Stevens does admit that the real difference is that Bernie represents those progs who were disappointed in Obama.
This is the problem. Most Dems are pleased with the President and want to build on his achievements not start over.
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