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

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Trump talked shyt about the establishment, alienated people, didn't build a coalition with anybody, and wound up winning Obama voters in critical areas, beating Hillary's dumb ass.

Don't listen to the centrists. They learned nothing from 2016. They're STILL saying Russia is behind everything.
The issue is Dem primary voters love the Dem establishment.

Obamaworld is not hated like the Bush world was inside the GOP. Obama has had high approval ratings since the tail end of his presidency.
 

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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.
It seems he keeps proving he couldnt be further from a team player. And, Warren voters aside (which, if we’re being honest, there haven’t been many of outside of some poll projections), were the only possible group Bernie could draw from. I’ll take your word on Biden voters, but it was a pretty common reaction following Iowa and New Hampshire for people to assume the moderates, once consolidated, would outnumber Bernie’s 30 whatever percent. The question was if the billionaire’s ego would prevent them from dropping out, and/or if the Pete-Amy rivalry would prevent them from dropping out.

The Bernie crowd mocked that analysis.
 

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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.

Y'all ain't got anything more interesting to do in Canada than to make bad faith arguments about American politics?

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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.

Y’all are really Overthinking what happened. Bernie was up in the polls by a healthy margin. Even in places like N.C, he was virtually tied. After Nevada, the two trusted liberal callable news sources (decided to go all in for Biden. A week’s worth of relentless anti Bernie propaganda resulted in what we witnessed on Super Tuesday. We saw 40 point swings in some of these states. The people that made up their minds late all went to Biden.
 

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Y’all are really Overthinking what happened. Bernie was up in the polls by a healthy margin. Even in places like N.C, he was virtually tied. After Nevada, the two trusted liberal callable news sources (decided to go all in for Biden. A week’s worth of relentless anti Bernie propaganda resulted in what we witnessed on Super Tuesday. We saw 40 point swings in some of these states. The people that made up their minds late all went to Biden.
This is true. Its unprecedented.

But the point still stands, these mofos should have been building up the tent and trying to get a slice of older voters ever since the surge in the polls happened in December.

No political campaign should ever, ever, ever, ever, rely on young voters to turnout. Ever.
 

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Y'all ain't got anything more interesting to do in Canada than to make bad faith arguments about American politics?

:russ:

Attack the poster not the content. You have no rebuttal.
 

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This is true. Its unprecedented.

But the point still stands, these mofos should have been building up the tent and trying to get a slice of older voters ever since the surge in the polls happened in December.

No political campaign should ever, ever, ever, ever, rely on young voters to turnout. Ever.
You're fukking shameless.

After ruining this forum you have the gall to be retrospective.

All of this should have been obvious to you for years.

You let white boys in Brooklyn gas you up.
 
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