2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPsst...Clinton is now only +6 in California...
Only +2 out of the MOE.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/presidential-election/article70613117.html
Oh my, this is not going to make for a 'Happy Friday' in the Clinton camp.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)This is even a late close. Could be the beginning of a Sanders blowout in that state, which could obviously hand the nom to Sanders.
hereforthevoting
(241 posts)Cali's got to be excited to "matter" this time around.
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)the more the numbers shift towards Bernie. There's a reason Team Clinton limits her access and appearances. And as I've said before, I challenge any Clnton supporter to show me a Clinton rally with 1/2 the enthusiasm of any Bernie rally. You can't create that. It's either there or it's not.
Team Clinton wanted this all to be over quickly. The longer she has to campaign, the longer she has to try to portray herself as a progressive, which she clearly isn't. She's a centrist DLC style Democrat, which was just about all we could hope for in 1992, after the GOP had held the White House for TWENTY of the preceding TWENTY-FOUR YEARS. Hard to believe we survived that, but we did, and now that the Democrats have had the White House for 16 of the last 24 years (and if there were any justice in this world, it would have been 24 straight), we have come a long way from the "easy does it", "baby steps towards progress" era of triangulation and corporate-approved centrist politics.
America has begun to change course back towards the direction that FDR, JFK, and LBJ had steered us. Bernie will take the helm and steer us in that direction. HRC? I don't think so, not with all of the Wall Street cash she's accepted. Those folks expect a return on their investment. And deep down, I don't really know what she believes. Heck, I'm not sure SHE knows what she believes, other than that she REALLY REALLY REALLY wants to be President. And that's just not good enough for me. George Wallace really wanted to be President, but thankfully America said "no". As Mick Jaggar sang, "you can't always get what you want", but I'm sure the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Clintons have accumulated will help soothe the pain of rejection if/when HRC goes down to defeat.
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)Oh look the Clinton Campaign Bus is rolling into town:
Here is the demo breakdown:
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)And almost 2 months out.
When I calculate the 'delegate math' I figure he needs about +20 in CA. This shows he might just get it.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)At least the wheels hadn't come off the bus yet. Pennsylvania and New York will take care of that.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)delegates. 475 up for grabs on election day. VERY doable.