Bernie is talking about going to the convention but the truth is last night was a horrible night for him. Yes, she was expected to win those six Southern states but the margins she won by were disastrous-anywhere from 30 to 60 points.
Bernie is bragging about all the money he's raising. But ironically enough, he''s also showing that money in politics isn't everything.
"Bernie Sanders: Money for nothing? You know a campaign is in trouble when they send out a press release touting a “Path Forward Breakfast” slated for Wednesday to explain how they plan to soldier on after a decidedly not-so-Super Tuesday. No doubt about it, Sanders’ presidential hopes are on life support after a string of big blowouts in the South, but it’s a gold-plated, diamond studded ventilator thanks to his defeat-defying online fundraising operation."
"Sanders has outraised Clinton decisively since the beginning of the year (scoring a record-breaking $40 million in February — including an amazing $5 million day) and he likely outspent her in Nevada and South Carolina, according to sources in both campaigns, burning through cash at a faster rate than Clinton’s Brooklyn operation."
"His reward? A string of game-changing defeats."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/five-takeaways-from-super-tuesday-220107#ixzz41ko831eO
The pressure for Bernie to get out so she can prepare for Trump is only going to build.
Even as Sanders attempts to push forward, Tuesday night’s results fundamentally altered his role in the Democratic primary -- from serious presidential contender to grassroots icon.
“If Sanders stays in the race, he’ll become a candidate running on a message, rather than a platform that he plans to enact,” said Ben LaBolt, an adviser to President Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Secretary Clinton faces a delicate balancing act – appealing to a general election audience while making clear that she remains concerned about income inequality and the outsized role special interests play in the political process.”
Sanders admitted as much in his election night party in Vermont. “This campaign is not just about electing a president,” he told supporters, indicating he would soldier on to promote his message of a rigged economy.
"The 74-year-old Democratic Socialist was chastened by his stunning, near-50-point loss in South Carolina, sources close to him said. But Sanders has been telling his advisers that he has two driving motivations for staying in the race: First, he wants to out-raise Clinton -- an establishment candidate with access to Wall Street cash -- to prove Democrats can thrive financially by locking out the special interest donors."
"The competitive politician belied by Sanders’ rumpled suit has been telling people around him that he cannot bow out as long as continues to poll better than Clinton in some head-to-head match-ups."
"But the calls for him to drop out began as the first polls closed Tuesday night."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clintons-how-to-let-bernie-sanders-down-easy-220104#ixzz41kooR5Lv
Harry Enten:
"But Democrats said Sanders is in a weaker position than Clinton was eight years ago. “While we were building a strong delegate lead, she continued to win big states and there was some chance she could regain the momentum needed to win the nomination,” LaBolt said. “After tonight, it would take a miracle for him to come back and win the nomination.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clintons-how-to-let-bernie-sanders-down-easy-220104#ixzz41kq5zdlg
"Sanders, perhaps not surprisingly, has indicated that he’ll continue to fight for votes across the country. But for every win he may get in mostly white states, Clinton will be marching toward the nomination with likely victories in states such as Michigan and Florida. The math indicates that Clinton eventually will win the nomination with relative ease."
Bernie is bragging about all the money he's raising. But ironically enough, he''s also showing that money in politics isn't everything.
"Bernie Sanders: Money for nothing? You know a campaign is in trouble when they send out a press release touting a “Path Forward Breakfast” slated for Wednesday to explain how they plan to soldier on after a decidedly not-so-Super Tuesday. No doubt about it, Sanders’ presidential hopes are on life support after a string of big blowouts in the South, but it’s a gold-plated, diamond studded ventilator thanks to his defeat-defying online fundraising operation."
"Sanders has outraised Clinton decisively since the beginning of the year (scoring a record-breaking $40 million in February — including an amazing $5 million day) and he likely outspent her in Nevada and South Carolina, according to sources in both campaigns, burning through cash at a faster rate than Clinton’s Brooklyn operation."
"His reward? A string of game-changing defeats."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/five-takeaways-from-super-tuesday-220107#ixzz41ko831eO
The pressure for Bernie to get out so she can prepare for Trump is only going to build.
Even as Sanders attempts to push forward, Tuesday night’s results fundamentally altered his role in the Democratic primary -- from serious presidential contender to grassroots icon.
“If Sanders stays in the race, he’ll become a candidate running on a message, rather than a platform that he plans to enact,” said Ben LaBolt, an adviser to President Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Secretary Clinton faces a delicate balancing act – appealing to a general election audience while making clear that she remains concerned about income inequality and the outsized role special interests play in the political process.”
Sanders admitted as much in his election night party in Vermont. “This campaign is not just about electing a president,” he told supporters, indicating he would soldier on to promote his message of a rigged economy.
"The 74-year-old Democratic Socialist was chastened by his stunning, near-50-point loss in South Carolina, sources close to him said. But Sanders has been telling his advisers that he has two driving motivations for staying in the race: First, he wants to out-raise Clinton -- an establishment candidate with access to Wall Street cash -- to prove Democrats can thrive financially by locking out the special interest donors."
"The competitive politician belied by Sanders’ rumpled suit has been telling people around him that he cannot bow out as long as continues to poll better than Clinton in some head-to-head match-ups."
"But the calls for him to drop out began as the first polls closed Tuesday night."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clintons-how-to-let-bernie-sanders-down-easy-220104#ixzz41kooR5Lv
Harry Enten:
"Hillary Clinton’s Got This."
"Something truly crazy would have to happen for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination."
"To borrow a phrase from Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton swept through the South like a big wheel through a delta cotton field on Super Tuesday. Shewon seven states total, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in the South. She also won Massachusetts and American Samoa. Bernie Sanders emerged victorious in four states (Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Vermont), but his victories tended to come by smaller margins and in smaller states. The end result is that Clinton has a clear path to winning the nomination, and Sanders’s only hope to derail her is for something very unusual to happen."
"We’ve now seen 15 states vote in the Democratic contest, and it’s clear that Clinton’s coalition is wider than Sanders’s. Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population. That’s not going to work this year when black voters are likely to make up more than 20 percent of Democratic primary voters nationwide."
"On Tuesday, we saw why. As she did in Nevada and South Carolina, Clinton won huge margins of black voters. Her worst performance was in Oklahoma, where 71 percent of black voters in the Democratic primary chose her. InAlabama, she won 93 percent of black voters on her way to winning 78 percent of Democrats overall. Clinton took no less than 64 percent of the overall vote in the southern states she won."
"It wasn’t just just black voters, either: Clinton dominated with Hispanics in Texas. There had been some questions about how Hispanics voted in Nevada, but there was little doubt in Texas. The exit poll showed Clinton with a 42 percentage point win among Hispanics, about the margin she won in counties such as Hidalgo, where Hispanics make up 91 percent of the population. Those results bode well for Clinton in states such as Arizona, California, Florida and New Mexico."
"The end result is that Clinton will now have a substantial delegate lead. When I wrote on Saturday that Clinton was on her way to winning the Democratic nomination, I projected that she would win 508 delegates on Tuesday. It will take a little while to get the exact delegate totals, but FiveThirtyEight contributor David Wasserman projects Clinton to win well over 500 delegates."
"To borrow a phrase from Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton swept through the South like a big wheel through a delta cotton field on Super Tuesday. Shewon seven states total, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in the South. She also won Massachusetts and American Samoa. Bernie Sanders emerged victorious in four states (Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Vermont), but his victories tended to come by smaller margins and in smaller states. The end result is that Clinton has a clear path to winning the nomination, and Sanders’s only hope to derail her is for something very unusual to happen."
"We’ve now seen 15 states vote in the Democratic contest, and it’s clear that Clinton’s coalition is wider than Sanders’s. Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population. That’s not going to work this year when black voters are likely to make up more than 20 percent of Democratic primary voters nationwide."
"On Tuesday, we saw why. As she did in Nevada and South Carolina, Clinton won huge margins of black voters. Her worst performance was in Oklahoma, where 71 percent of black voters in the Democratic primary chose her. InAlabama, she won 93 percent of black voters on her way to winning 78 percent of Democrats overall. Clinton took no less than 64 percent of the overall vote in the southern states she won."
"It wasn’t just just black voters, either: Clinton dominated with Hispanics in Texas. There had been some questions about how Hispanics voted in Nevada, but there was little doubt in Texas. The exit poll showed Clinton with a 42 percentage point win among Hispanics, about the margin she won in counties such as Hidalgo, where Hispanics make up 91 percent of the population. Those results bode well for Clinton in states such as Arizona, California, Florida and New Mexico."
"The end result is that Clinton will now have a substantial delegate lead. When I wrote on Saturday that Clinton was on her way to winning the Democratic nomination, I projected that she would win 508 delegates on Tuesday. It will take a little while to get the exact delegate totals, but FiveThirtyEight contributor David Wasserman projects Clinton to win well over 500 delegates."
"That will give her a lead of around 200 pledged delegates, not counting her large lead among superdelegates."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hillary-clintons-got-this/
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hillary-clintons-got-this/
No doubt, some will say that Hilary has no basis to ask Bernie to dropout as she didn't in 2008. But 2008 was different than where Bernie sits now:
"But Clinton has little footing to push Sanders out of the race after he defeated her in four states Tuesday, and may even understand his motivation for staying in -- she waged a protracted battle against Obama through June in 2008, even after it became virtually impossible for her to catch up with him after the 11 straight victories he won following Super Tuesday that year.""But Democrats said Sanders is in a weaker position than Clinton was eight years ago. “While we were building a strong delegate lead, she continued to win big states and there was some chance she could regain the momentum needed to win the nomination,” LaBolt said. “After tonight, it would take a miracle for him to come back and win the nomination.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clintons-how-to-let-bernie-sanders-down-easy-220104#ixzz41kq5zdlg
Of course, the Bernie Maniacs like to believe in miracles rather than the art of the possible. But what nobody wants to think about is the possibility of Trump. So expect the calls for Bernie to get out to only accelerate.
"Sanders needs a fundamental shift in the race. Unfortunately for him, it’s already a two-person affair — not like the Republican side, where we wonder how the race might change if one of the candidates dropped out. The votes on the Democratic side so far have been fairly predictable based on demographics; it just so happens that those demographics favor Clinton.""Sanders, perhaps not surprisingly, has indicated that he’ll continue to fight for votes across the country. But for every win he may get in mostly white states, Clinton will be marching toward the nomination with likely victories in states such as Michigan and Florida. The math indicates that Clinton eventually will win the nomination with relative ease."
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