Many of his supporters there are registered indys.

Which means Hillary would be out of luck in the primary, because these people aren't tribalists and won't vote for her just because she has a D attached to her name. That's kind of a blind spot for the Clinton campaign. People have about as much enthusiasm for Hillary as they do for a root canal.

...it's realism.

rather to live with the delusion that voting against something is valid?

If you vote for Hillary, you don't vote against GOP - you vote FOR GOP since Hillary and her husband seem to be living in the same racist bubble as their fellow republican counterparts...

If you vote for Hillary, you vote to reward her for all her bad decisions that has helped create havoc both in the world and domestic.

If you vote for Hillary, you get to see Bill in the WH sll over again as if you are addicted to bad sequels of a rotten movie anyway.

Why do you want to unleash "Superpredators", the Clintons on the rest of the world?

They have already proven that they lack empathy and how they react when real life hits them in the face. That's when their masks come off and their true selves come to display. It's not pretty.

Why do you want to make the world dance after neocon, corporatists pipe all over again?

Many of those attending his rallies can't even vote in the primary. Someone should have thought of that long, long ago and worked on a registration or party change drive in time for the deadline. There are going to be many surprised people showing up at a polling place, only to be turned away for not being registered Democrats. Pity.

There is no reason to assume that.

And it's time to stop the indy-bashing and the "The Sanders campaign is just silly" attitude. Both of those are childish tactics.

I'm not in New York. Was there such an effort in time for the deadline? Are you in NY? From what the OP said, it sounds like many of Bernie's rally attendees aren't eligible to vote on the 19th. I know no more than that.

Can you add something to my knowledge.

It goes without saying that the Sanders campaign in NY would have done something to address this.

Bernie wouldn't have over 1,000 pledged delegates if his campaign were stupid enough to blow off something like that.

at the time of the deadline to change registration. I don't even know what that deadline was.

And, yes, it is an anecdote. If the campaign worked to get people to change their registrations, that's good news for him. I have no idea. I'll be looking at the results on the 20th, just like everyone else. I can't vote in NY.

if they had, a significant uptick in Democratic registrations would have been a newsworthy item.

As I recall, the Sanders supporters spent part of last year complaining that DNC wasn't doing it for them...

New York’s turnout was a shameful 28.8 percent, the fourth-lowest in the country, despite three statewide races (including the governor) and 27 House races.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/the-worst-voter-turnout-in-72-years.html


Oregon, also a closed Primary State, had 69% turnout that year. NY has big apathy problems when it comes to the ballot box.

The media tried its best to keep him under wraps until it was impossible to ignore due to word of mouth and the internet.

Sanders may continue to trend up, but the damage has been done.

I don't think the Sanders campaign failed to try. It is more about resources and time.

...in the past, I was registered as "non-partisan" - but I knew the rules about voting in the primaries. Hopefully, most of these people know about voting regulations.

It's anti-democratic that NY doesn't allow same-day re-registration.

And it's time to stop treating independents as the enemy. Their only crime is having strong principles.

that is what will happen. Do you live in NY? If so, work to change the law. It's too late this year.

There is no reason for anyone to think the Sanders campaign wouldn't have had a major re-registration effort going all this time. Obviously they would.

Maybe someone who knows will tell us if they had such a drive. I doubt it, actually. But, I could be wrong.

But there's no reason this, of all things, should be an issue.

Give the campaign credit for not being morons.

changing party affiliation in NY was October 9, 2015. I don't think there was even any organization at that time. New registration deadline is closer to the election, though. I don't know how that all breaks down in NY. It's possible it was overlooked, actually.

But someone with NY knowledge could probably clarify.

I think it will be an issue.

and having run a re-registration campaign earlier.

Where were St. Bern's expensive advisors on this issue? Why weren't they organizing on the ground?

Oh, well...so it goes.

And how do you know whether or not he changed his registration in Vermont? (Of course, to be eligible there, he wouldn't have to since the primary there was open.)

It's also silly to consider this a "blind spot" -- unless you know that his campaign has no demographic data analytics, which would obviously include registration status..

...not well suited to the hyper-defensiveness here.

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Approximately 129,000 people are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in New York State. Almost 80% live in New York City.⁵

1 in 5 people who are HIV + do not know their status.⁵
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like AZ.

New York Election Fraud: Is Arizona Happening Again?
http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/new-york-election-fraud-voter-registration-not-enrolled-in-a-party-dropped-sanders-clinton-democrat-what-to-do-how-vote-suppression/

in order to switch party affiliation, you had to do it by Oct 9th. the first democratic debate wasn't until the 13th so Bernie was an unknown commodity. in a fair race there would have been at least a couple of debates before deadlines like this. but i guess only the repubs believe this to be true (they had 2 before Oct 9th)...at least with DWS at the helm.