This is from a guy who knows a little bit about how to win a primary: Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe:
"Now that Bernie Sanders has lost the New York democratic primary in a blowout and his already incredibly unlikely path for a comeback in the primary race has has now become an absurdly unlikely one, it was inevitable that a growing number of prominent voices in the Democratic Party would begin calling on him – publicly or privately – to step aside or at least tone down his negative campaigning. However one prominent longtime ally of President Obama is taking things even further, accusing Sanders of “fraud” by remaining in the race."
"David Plouffe was the campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008, and was instrumental in helping him to defeat Hillary Clinton in the primary race and to ultimately get elected President. So he’s no stranger to bitterly contested primaries. But while the 2008 race saw Obama and Clinton locked in a consistently close race with each having a viable path to the nomination all the way to the end of state voting, Plouffe sees 2016 differently. Very differently."
"Bernie Sanders is now behind by millions of votes and hundreds of delegates, meaning that the superdelegates he keeps complaining about aren’t even a factor. This race is a blowout, and he would need to win seventy to eighty percent of the vote in every remaining state in order to climb back into contention, which is demographically impossible. Plouffe congratulated Sanders on the “stunningly strong campaign” that he’s run, but went on to state that “raising $ stating you have path to nomination is fraud.” There is no way that Plouffe, who sits on the board of the Obama Foundation, would say these words without President Obama’s implicit approval."
"That might be the harshest public rebuke of the sinking Sanders campaign to date by a prominent Democratic Party figure. The words carry more weight considering they’re coming from someone who is all too familiar with the realities of being inside primary races, and knows when they’re realistically over. While most critics have focused on the negative and accusatory tone which Sanders has taken toward Clinton as he’s fallen further behind, David Plouffe is focusing on the fact that Sanders continues to ask his supporters for more money by essentially lying about his remaining mathematical chances."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/politics/obama-campaign-man
ager-says-bernie-sanders-is-committing-fraud-by-pretending-he-can-win/24558/
It is true that he's ripping his supporters off and lying to them-though they do sound like they want to be lied to.
If he insists on staying through until June 7 though, he ought to pull back with the negative attacks if he wants to have any input at the convention.
Ryan Cooper imagines he has tremendous leverage and has all this power to force concessions.
http://theweek.com/authors/ryan-cooper
But if Bernie continues with the slashing attacks, why bother?
As for the Berners, I'm very skeptical that they have this power to sink her. Just look at the vote in NY. She got 70 percent more votes than the GOPers combined. This is obviously without the Bernie vote.
My question about the Bernie voters is this: how many of them voted for Obama in 2012? Anyone who didn't doesn't matter. They don't have to vote for her this time as their not voting in 2012 clearly didn't hurt Obama.
Hillary-Obama was different as this was two very popular Democrats. Bernie is not a Democrat period. Never has been. A large percentage of his supporters aren't Democrats. So if they again don't vote that is their problem.
"Now that Bernie Sanders has lost the New York democratic primary in a blowout and his already incredibly unlikely path for a comeback in the primary race has has now become an absurdly unlikely one, it was inevitable that a growing number of prominent voices in the Democratic Party would begin calling on him – publicly or privately – to step aside or at least tone down his negative campaigning. However one prominent longtime ally of President Obama is taking things even further, accusing Sanders of “fraud” by remaining in the race."
"David Plouffe was the campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008, and was instrumental in helping him to defeat Hillary Clinton in the primary race and to ultimately get elected President. So he’s no stranger to bitterly contested primaries. But while the 2008 race saw Obama and Clinton locked in a consistently close race with each having a viable path to the nomination all the way to the end of state voting, Plouffe sees 2016 differently. Very differently."
"Bernie Sanders is now behind by millions of votes and hundreds of delegates, meaning that the superdelegates he keeps complaining about aren’t even a factor. This race is a blowout, and he would need to win seventy to eighty percent of the vote in every remaining state in order to climb back into contention, which is demographically impossible. Plouffe congratulated Sanders on the “stunningly strong campaign” that he’s run, but went on to state that “raising $ stating you have path to nomination is fraud.” There is no way that Plouffe, who sits on the board of the Obama Foundation, would say these words without President Obama’s implicit approval."
"That might be the harshest public rebuke of the sinking Sanders campaign to date by a prominent Democratic Party figure. The words carry more weight considering they’re coming from someone who is all too familiar with the realities of being inside primary races, and knows when they’re realistically over. While most critics have focused on the negative and accusatory tone which Sanders has taken toward Clinton as he’s fallen further behind, David Plouffe is focusing on the fact that Sanders continues to ask his supporters for more money by essentially lying about his remaining mathematical chances."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/politics/obama-campaign-man
ager-says-bernie-sanders-is-committing-fraud-by-pretending-he-can-win/24558/
It is true that he's ripping his supporters off and lying to them-though they do sound like they want to be lied to.
If he insists on staying through until June 7 though, he ought to pull back with the negative attacks if he wants to have any input at the convention.
Ryan Cooper imagines he has tremendous leverage and has all this power to force concessions.
http://theweek.com/authors/ryan-cooper
But if Bernie continues with the slashing attacks, why bother?
As for the Berners, I'm very skeptical that they have this power to sink her. Just look at the vote in NY. She got 70 percent more votes than the GOPers combined. This is obviously without the Bernie vote.
My question about the Bernie voters is this: how many of them voted for Obama in 2012? Anyone who didn't doesn't matter. They don't have to vote for her this time as their not voting in 2012 clearly didn't hurt Obama.
Hillary-Obama was different as this was two very popular Democrats. Bernie is not a Democrat period. Never has been. A large percentage of his supporters aren't Democrats. So if they again don't vote that is their problem.
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