That's where Sanders loses the popular vote and the delegate count, but begs for the delegates to pick him anyway.

life on the kibbutz.

Socialism was the reigning philosophy in the early Israeli communes--all for one, and one for all.

Individually earned and retained property was not encouraged. All was placed in the communal pot, as it were.

There is a Sanders campaign site of targeted super-delegates for Sanders' supporters to harass.

He's already more than 2.5M votes behind, 200+ delegates behind, AND to use their "will of the people" claim, Clinton has won states with a combined population of 220 million people, Sanders a mere 53 million. THAT is the "will of the people"!

Hillary will meet the threshold of pledged delegates and will not likely need the supers anyway.

who have been on the fence will endorse Hillary between now and then.

Prime example: MD's Elijah Cummings who endorsed Hillary yesterday.

The latest antics of the Sanders campaign, plus the OTT cyberbullying, have all contributed to those outcomes.

I love even more that he is my Rep.

Thanks for this great find, Cha!

Rep, Blue!

I had a great Rep for awhile.. Mazie Hirono who is now Senator. Then we got Tulsi who I thought was going to be good until she turned to be a big fat fail.

Here's the back of his head..



A Picture Worth a Thousand Words..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=22680

Yes, MD is my voting residence and I am in Elijah's district.

My condolences about Tulsi. What a disappointment she has turned out to be - even before she endorsed Bernie.

And, yes when she started disingenuously bashing President Obama.. she and I were through..

And, then she endorses BS. BS can't even answer questions on what his plan is to break up the banks or anything else in that interview with NYDN to get their endorsement.. not even in President Obama's and Hillary's league.

Thank you~

...and sadly may be stuck with Kathleen Matthews. Yuck!

I am really curious to hear. This is not a snark.

Republicans. He didn't hit back hard enough when it came to obstruction. Certainly not like Cummings did.

He's been an o.k. congressman, but his running neck and neck against Donna Edwards for the Senate is testament that not everyone has been pleased with him. He should be beating her handily but he isn't. She's making him work for it and rightly so.

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That is WONDERFUL news! He's not my rep, Chris Van Hollen is, but I love Elijah!

in Baltimore yesterday! We have an outstanding MD Dem delegation, IMO.

But sometimes life happens. And yes, we're good to go in MD. Can't wait for the primary!

He's been pretty good. I don't agree with him on everything, but overall I like him.

Integrifty- the quality of appearing to be honest and straightfoward as a method to swindle gullible donors out of additional monies.

"Bernie Sadners is known to be a man of integrifty, and his supporters pay the price, literally."

Tip O'The Hat to you ~.

Ha-ha! Works!!!

The caucuses/primaries he won in do not have huge populations of voters. So the argument that he has a winning streak among winning states is invalid. He's winning states with small populations, non-diverse populations, and pretty non-democratic fashion too (caucuses are not democratic).

In 2008, HRC was must closer to Obama in delegate totals. She was also close to him in the popular vote. She had much more of a reason to contest the election or go all the way to the end. She had every right no matter how upset I and other Obama supporters were.

Bernie Sanders is being a straight up pompous, arrogant asshole.

float fantasy.

When you are 210 delegates behind, a 50/50 split isn't even a win. You have to win 56% of the delegates and even then you are losing!

This guy will say anything for $$$$$$$!

especially for the "most exemplary and ethical Senator in history." (c)

Sanders already lost the race on March 15th. He is playing us all and the media is helping: http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/there-can-be-no-peace-among-liberals-until-bernie-sanders-is-out-of-the-race/24426/

Is he raising for Democrats? When he loses and drops out, where will that $$$ go?

Bernie is spending money as fast as he grifts it, and he's not grifting fast enough to deal with New York next Tuesday, Sorta-Super Tuesday the week after that, or the cross-country June 7 primary day that sees major action on both coasts. He is going to have to run up extreme debt to even be close to competitive ESPECIALLY in California. Plus, his troll bill must be getting outrageous.

Money (That's What I Want)
By The Beatles

The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want

He is using tax payer money for secret service,and what ever else...

Bernie Sanders is the GOP's dream candidate: the Democrat who really is as bad as Republicans always said we were. If we run Bernie, we lose 49 states. Simple as that. They don't even have to pull out Bernie's single-page resume; just the fact he's going to raise taxes by percentages never seen before to fund his grand experiment is enough to throw the election to anyone the Republicans care to run.

Bernie would last a week out there on his own. The GOP would shred him like aged Vermont Cheddar. Plus he doesn't know what he's talking about. That NY Daily News interview made him look like a total amateur to everyone but his Faithful Followers.

Hillary's negative are her strong points. It's going to be a tough time getting to November. Hillary is great at fighting these battles. They just make her look better in the end. Bernie can't even handle soft ball questions from local TV pundits.

WE'd then the number of required delegates goes down. If Sanders gets close to the GOP required delegate count he will probably say he has met the requirements and declare himself a winner.

Well we can hope it ends after New York but with him not so sure.....what point is he trying to make he's not going to win,,,,,

that is, not dropping out, not suspending the campaign. It seems fair and reasonable to allow all his supporters everywhere to vote for him.
As for contesting the convention....on what basis? He probably won't have more pledged delegates, he probably won't have more popular votes, and he won't have the most superdelegates supporting him.
At this time his campaign says supers will come over to him because polls show he beats Republicans by wider margins than Hillary does. My thinking is that when exposed to the Republican spinmeisters, he'll get crushed in the general. I expect many supers feel that way too.
There is no reasonable basis I can see on which to contest.

Otherwise he will go home to Vermont without bus fare.

....they're speaking out of both sides of their mouths (or both ends of their torsos)

They said the superdelegates should vote with the will of the people. So if Clinton gets more pledged delegate than Sanders, then "the will of the people" would be that Clinton get more superdelegates than Sanders.

What's the thinking about a "contested" convention?

I tried to explain it logically here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1707606

If Clinton has "more" (I'll stay away from using majority, even though Jeff did this morning) pledged delegates than Sanders, then it would be obvious that she'll wind up with more superdelegates than Sanders.

This isn't even math, it's simple deductive reasoning and logic:

If A is greater than B, and C is divided in proportion to the size of A and B, then A + >50% of C will STILL be greater than B + <50% of C.

I think Jeff should go back to selling comic books, it's a lot simpler than running a slipshod presidential campaign and Tad should rethink the way he helped set up the Democratic Party supedelegate scheme years ago.