Just looking at fivethirtyeights models of all the states that vote next week on Super Tuesday and Sanders is projected to win every one of them except Alabama and tie Klobochar in her home state of Minnesota as well as a possible tie in Tennessee with Biden. But the two big prizes California and Texas are in Sanders corner.
It wasn’t a month ago the majority of pundits were saying Sanders had no chance and for at least the past two years Biden was winning the democratic contest even haven’t even announced by over 35%. What are the thoughts by some of the democrats, I thought Sanders would do well and I knew the democrats have moved way more leftward than republicans to the right but I didn’t think they would nominate a socialist. But here we are. There is not a candidate to stop him after the results of super Tuesday are in half of contest is over at that point and at least half of the states left to vote after that are states Sanders did well in against Hillary, so no reason to think he won’t repeat/outperform the 2016 results in those states.
Keep in mind that typically primary voters are not really representative of the voters in either party, they are the very active core partisans.
Compare turnout for both parties in both the primaries and general elections, the difference is huge, even bigger than the difference between presidential election years and off year elections.
The average democrat I don’t believe has gone so far to the left, but they aren’t controlling the outcome of the primaries.
I’ve thought all along Bernie had a good chance of winning the nomination vote wise but it’s still questionable as to whether or not he comes out of the convention as the winner due to the convention rules and “Super Delegates”.
Screwing him out of the nomination in 2016 caused a big rift in the party and if they do it twice it could cause a major split with Bernie then running as an independent third party write in candidate or that a huge portion of his base sits the election out in retaliation.
It will all boil down to what the party’s leadership sees as being the greatest threat to the party in the long term.
I can pretty well guarantee you those numbers are scaring the hell out of the DNC leadership and all of the other candidates.
Good, and with their masks ripped off, the world can see who and what the Democratic Party really is, and it take the fall into the ash heap of history. The ash heap is a good place for the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, etc…
Historians who are trying to preserve our history,warts and all, so we do not forget it. I support people who do not seek to whitewash our history and sanitize it.
I’m all for the population of a city agreeing to move a monument to another location. I’m not in favor of anarchy, where angry mobs indiscriminately start tearing them down.
See any difference? Which one looks whitewashed to you? The one with the vivid description of atrocities or the one that mentions in passing they had some slaves in addition to the awesome parties and horse races.
