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RandySF

(58,939 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:36 PM May 2016

Does BS realize that California is not the only state voting on June 7?

The BS campaign plans to win the nomination by doing well in California. Did they forget that New Jersey, DC and New Mexico are voting that day, too? Do they think they are going to win enough delegates from my state to cancel losing elsewhere?

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Does BS realize that California is not the only state voting on June 7? (Original Post) RandySF May 2016 OP
CA, MT, ND, NJ, NM and SD vote on June 7. DC actually votes on June 14. LonePirate May 2016 #1
ooops! RandySF May 2016 #2
He'll need to win 80% of the CA vote to pass Hillary stopbush May 2016 #3
Shhhhh!!! nt anotherproletariat May 2016 #4
California is important for one big reason Reiyuki May 2016 #5
Sen. Sanders isn't great at multitasking. Kber May 2016 #6
Simple reason Setsuna1972 May 2016 #7
I live in California and Hillary is going to win California. We have a Democratic governor, skylucy May 2016 #8
Loved your report, lucy.. especially your Dad report! Cha May 2016 #10
Nope because of Bernie Math and those $27 donations that Tad wants to keep rolling in. SaschaHM May 2016 #9

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
3. He'll need to win 80% of the CA vote to pass Hillary
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:41 PM
May 2016

and that's in a state where he currently trails badly in the polls, where he's spending nothing on ads...and where his campaign director just quit.

His "plan" at this point seems to be averring that he can still win just so he can claim Hillary/the DNC/whoever cheated him out of the nomination.

Reiyuki

(96 posts)
5. California is important for one big reason
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:46 PM
May 2016

If Clinton wins California, she will cinch the election without having to use any superdelegates. The race is completely over, and no lobbying will change it (aside from candidates leaving for other reasons).

If Sanders wins California (and a couple other random states), then it will mean that neither candidate has the minimum delegates to automatically win, and the primaries get decided by superdelegates.

Like groundhog day, it also means another another 6 weeks of winter because superdelegates don't cast their votes until the convention.

Setsuna1972

(332 posts)
7. Simple reason
Wed May 11, 2016, 10:58 PM
May 2016

In Bernie logic, there are too many black people in DC for his tastes, and New Mexico is the place where ET crashed in 1947 !

skylucy

(3,739 posts)
8. I live in California and Hillary is going to win California. We have a Democratic governor,
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:38 PM
May 2016

two Democratic senators all supporting her and we have a large Hispanic population and also plenty of Asian and African American voters who will come out for Hillary. I live in the SF Bay Area and San Francisco is probably the most liberal city ever. Extremely liberal...You might think that would mean BS would be polling ahead in San Francisco. Wrong. Hillary is polling ahead of BS in San Francisco. *Fun Fact: My dad is going to be 90 years old soon...guess you would put him in the "old white guy" demographic. He voted for Obama and he is fired up to vote for Hillary. He also told me yesterday that Bernie needs to get the hell out of the race already.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
9. Nope because of Bernie Math and those $27 donations that Tad wants to keep rolling in.
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:51 PM
May 2016

Bernie is behind by 278ish delegates so to counter that every BS'r and the campaign bring up the fact that CA has 475 and that Sanders can magically do so well that he can erase that lead. He's going to win big there like he did NY... oh wait.

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