What exactly is Bernie's path to winning the nomination?

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this isnt an argument thread, im asking from a completely objective standpoint how anyone sees this happening

-the DNC has made it all but clear that theyve chosen biden already, unless bernie overwhelmingly was winning in the polls

-except hes not even winning at all. biden is up by a million votes, and is up in the polls 62-12 in florida

so where we're at today on saturday march 7th, how does bernie sanders win the democratic primary going forward?
 
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Polls don't mean shyt! Before super Tuesday Bernie had all the momentum. But it's definitely clear that Bernie is running against everyone at this point so it will probably be an L.

The only way Bernie wins is if people actually vote for him in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. Depending on how this progresses I might make a decision not to vote at all. Somebody else said it here before, the democrats are bought by the corporates. If no progressive candidates win then there's no reason for me as an educated individual who's doing decent for themselves to continue fighting for things like M4A and free education when folks of lower class who actually need the safety net more than I do get brainwashed by the media and vote for the corporate shills.
 
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1. Do well this coming Tuesday

2. Dominate Joe at the debate

3. overperform in FL and get a good amount of delegates, hold serve and/or overperform elsewhere

4. Don’t get blown out in any of the remaining contests and go for broke during the Acela primaries in April and try to win Puerto Rico by sweeping the 51 delegates there

That’s the only path I see.

The other path is Biden doing or saying a lot of stupid shid that people can’t ignore but his campaign has a limited exposure policy.
 
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I’m still trying to understand how folk are confused that Sanders is on an island. It’s like they have muted everything he has said up to this point. Whether I agree or not is irrelevant. He has alienated a shytload of people and then we got folk confused that the people he alienated don’t rock with him? :hhh:

Bernie’s only hope is a scandal or hope Joe exposes himself for being unwell, having early dementia, completely incapable.

Both candidates are a bad look for the Democratic Party IMO. All that talk and got people picking between two old white men.
 
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the cac mamba said:
this isnt an argument thread, im asking from a completely objective standpoint how anyone sees this happening

-the DNC has made it all but clear that theyve chosen biden already, unless bernie overwhelmingly was winning in the polls

-except hes not even winning at all. biden is up by a million votes, and is up in the polls 62-12 in florida

so where we're at today on saturday march 7th, how does bernie sanders win the democratic primary going forward?
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He's made a pretty clear path for him dropping out. IMO.
 
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The Fukin Prophecy said:
He has no path, he never had a path...

Been said it 100 times, the far left cannot win a general election...

It was painfully obvious Bernie would be in trouble when the 5 moderates in the race formed DNC voltron instead of siphoning votes from each other...
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Bingo.

and Bernie talks so much shyt about the “establishment”, those same people he will need in the General and if he’s fortunate to become President, he will need them to enact his policies in congress. Problem is nobody really likes Bernie. It’s been said over and over.
 
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Bernie’s support was always measured against everyone else’s combined, because it was obvious he was no one’s second choice. When that point was made after Iowa and New Hampshire Bernie Bro’s were all “he won lolz, you just mad”. And, here we are, exactly where anyone without their head firmly up their ass thought we’d be.
 
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Atlrocafella said:
Bingo.

and Bernie talks so much shyt about the “establishment”, those same people he will need in the General and if he’s fortunate to become President, he will need them to enact his policies in congress. Problem is nobody really likes Bernie. It’s been said over and over.
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Shogun said:
Bernie’s support was always measured against everyone else’s combined, because it was obvious he was no one’s second choice. When that point was made after Iowa and New Hampshire Bernie Bro’s were all “he won lolz, you just mad”. And, here we are, exactly where anyone without their head firmly up their ass thought we’d be.
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People like Bernie, he has high favorability ratings amongst Dems and left-leaning independents. He actually had solid 2nd choice support amongst Biden and Warren supporters over the last year.

The issue is the campaign. They never seriously went after reliable Dem primary voters. They didn't highlight Bernie being a team player in the Democratic caucus in the Senate and the House. They didn't highlight his bipartisan work.

Their comms strategy was not up to snuff.

I think its just general incompetence. Best fundraising operation in the entire field and they could have just hired ruthless political operatives to win.

Maybe they weren't serious about winning. Progressives have trouble wanting and wielding power just as moderate Dems have.
 
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