Yeah. That's what happened.

and they heard "private hearts."

Someone else yelled, "Vote your vagina" and they heard "Vote your angina."

Hey. It could happen.

Arlo Gutherie - Alice's Resturant

I don't remember if it was here or JackpineRadicals.org. or one of each.

If Hillary is way ahead in the polls, you could think a vote for Sanders is just an expressive, sentimental vote.

Admit it, you know he doesn't stand a chance of winning the nomination. And wouldn't stand of winning the general if he somehow by magic got the nomination.

I don't vote for who I think will win. This is not a sports game, as too many believe. I vote for who I want to win. In this case, a person who we need to win.
Bernie Sanders stands for what most Americans want and have been increasingly denied for the last 50 some years.
Hillary is status quo, which is little steps to the Right with each election.

people shlep to polls to stand in line to vote for the candidate they don't want.

DU's much better than a comedy club sometimes.

So transparent.

Yeah. OK.

Here's how the GE looks. I guess you were unaware.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html

Or you're try to Clinton me, that is, spin and lie.

Hillary's primary election scheduling advantage is almost gone. Unless Bernie gets absolutely crushed next Tuesday, he's still very much in the hunt, and the delegate gap will do nothing but shrink. This is likely to go right down to the wire.

If Bernie is ahead in the primary national popular vote going into the convention and the superdelegates don't flip, I guarantee you that a big chunk of Bernie voters won't just walk away from the party, they'll work to destroy it and erect a legitimately progressive party in its place. They'll be demanding a true liberal party, not a center-right simulacrum of one with anti-democratic tendencies.

So ... you're just saying voters voted for the candidate they prefer. That's the idea of an election, right?

Did I miss something?

the most committed Democrats in the country when it comes to Presidential elections. She did much better against Obama in Massachusetts in 2008 than she did against Bernie.

That's one Sanders expected to win. So....

committed Democrats. The stuff in the OP you just posted. Did you forget already?

“On Tuesday, March 1, we’re going to make history here in Massachusetts,” Sanders told a crowd Monday at UMass Amherst. “This great state is going to lead us forward to a political revolution.”

If Sanders’ political revolution is going anywhere on Super Tuesday, it will have to be in states like Massachusetts, where he has a demographic advantage.


The point you seem to be making is that if Sanders CAN'T win in open primary states, he's definitely toast. I agree.

what the candidate says?

What demographic advantage are you assuming in Massachusetts.

The point you seem to be making is that if Sanders CAN'T win in open primary states, he's definitely toast

it seems confusing and incoherent. try explaining yourself again.

because I was dying to vote for a woman and thought it wouldn't matter.

That has to be the most laughable thing I've seen on Du since another poster claimed that the blueprint of the New Deal could not be followed because no living person remembered the Depression.

You guys are a riot.

PS. Hillary is all of six years younger than Bernie and looks a lot less healthy. Carry on.

you don't have to "declare" that you are Democrat to vote in the Ohio primaries. You only have to request to vote in the Democratic primary. This does not make one an official Democrat.

Party Affiliation: Under Ohio election law, you declare your political affiliation by requesting the ballot of a political party in a partisan primary election. If you do not desire to affiliate with a political party in Ohio, you are considered to be an unaffiliated voter and may vote the Official Questions & Issues Ballot, if there is one for your precinct at the election.

I went to the table and asked for the blue (democratic) ballot.

If I lived in Ohio, I would do the same.

EOM

The Super Tuesday Southern states Hillary won,
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Tennessee
Texas

plus South Carolina and Mississippi, had open primaries.

But what's your point? There are more factors at work than open/closed obviously. But it would be silly to deny that that's one factor.

"Texas has open primaries, meaning you can cast a ballot in either party’s primary, regardless of whether you’ve voted in that party’s primary before."

http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2016/voter-checklist/

And your whole premise was that open primaries are a "boon" for Sanders. I'm merely pointing out the open primaries in the South all favored Hillary.

...the path to victory for a Democrat in November without a huge chunk of the Independent vote (which accounts for over 40% of the national electorate).

I'm for that, I think. Sounds cumbersome.

Democratic membership has been falling for many years now. So Hillary solidly winning the Democratic vote doesn't mean as much as it used to.

Sanders has the greater majority of potential voters because he's appealing to a broader swath of people

are a pain! I want each person who is a citizen to be allowed to register to vote and I want every registered voter to be allowed to vote as they wish. That is democracy. eh?

what should it be run like one?

which is a risk you take if you exclude most voters from having a voice, and put all your faith in 538.