Why is this supposed to be a big deal?

but I digress. Allow me to assist.

* Mr. Sanders & his campaign billed NY as a "have to" win state, as outlined in the post.
* Mr. Sanders & his campaign have since strapped a couple of jet engines to the goalposts. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511767355

But in reality (getting back to that whole pesky "math" thing) - http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/democrats/ he was correct at the outset. He really does have to win it.

Still don't understand why typical campaign rah! rah! language is all of the sudden being parsed to the nth degree.

Issue avoidance syndrome?

and that percentage will increase by a non-trivial amount within 24 hours.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/democrats/

On tuesday, she had 54% of pledged delegates, Bernie had 46%. 8% difference, with 40% yet to vote.
Now, she has lost a few since then, and Bernie gained a few, so how is that now 14%??

It's not that hard.

That spread will increase in less than 24 hours.

8% sounds much better than 200. You mentioned "issue avoidance"?

Not that there's anything wrong with that

How is this post going to affect your, or anyone else's life? What is the particular significance of the numbers 26, 23, 20 and 16 - are they perhaps related to the phases of Venus?

Thank you.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

of the month-old bananas I found in the back of my refrigerator.

and now basic food storage methods.

he's already a failed candidate.

He is over 200 pledged delegates down. MUCH more when you count supers.

His deficit will only get worse later today. Unless he wins by at LEAST 10 points, he's screwed.

And the reality is he's going to lose NY. Probably by a lot more than 10 points.


RIP Sanders Campaign.

Are you talking about the 194 number that has already been debunked?

Oh the iron knee!

right? Nope.

Before you start quoting a candidate who is running for office and would like to win in ALL the states, let me remind you that Hillary, on a constant and regular basis, says things many many times. And then says the opposite. On big and really important and life-affecting stuff.

I'd say winning NY is life affecting stuff for his campaign. Tomorrow 15% of all remaining delegates will be won or lost. If his last 7 wins in small states with low delegate counts were indicative of a shift in voter support, then he will win NY tomorrow.

If he does not win NY today, then the past 7 races were just coincidence that 7 Sanders-favorable contests happened together.

More importantly, it's not just about whether there's been a nationwide shift in voter support, it's about the delegates. He's pretty much out of time and MUST win NY today Not just win, but win by a big margin... 12 points... to be on track to where he needs to be.

Hillary needs to win big.
It is Hillary who came into this with a 90+ to almost nothing advantage.
It is Hillary who came into this with support from the DLC and all Dems in hock to the DLC, which is a shitload of Dems.

The Clintons bought up "the establishment $"when she and her husband took in those $200million, when their Foundation took in $2billion. No other candidate in history has been so brazen.

This is black and white.

You guys, I mean you, dispersing David Brock's PAC talking points, are very impressive.

You're like an energy bunny transformed into a roomba, set on its way by citizens united to do the work of idiots.

she is already illegally "borrowing" from down ticket money

In a letter to the DNC, the Sanders campaign describes how Clinton may be commingling funds between her joint fundraising committee with the DNC’s Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) and her campaign fund Hillary For America (HFA) by having HVA subsidize and even make “impermissible in-kind” contributions to HFA directly.

The letter points out that $15 million was used from the HVF for direct mail and online solicitations solely for Clinton, meaning the small donor return would only benefit one campaign and not be disbursed amongst the committee. The letter further states that the HVF is paying Clinton campaign staffers on an over reimbursement basis, allowing the committee to inject large sums of money into her campaign at any given time.

A recent filing with Federal Elections Committee cited that over 9 million dollars was given to HFA by HVF while less than 2 million was disbursed to the other committee members.

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24 million bucks she used that was supposed to be for downrace tickets

So that means that it's divisible by 9!

It's magic!

...to get out and vote!

I love it!

...as a candidate right from the start.

That's the terrible beauty of math. It doesn't care if you "believe."

That goes 9 innings, of course.

See how easy it is to play your game? Just go listen to her debate statements. Each one became more restrictive until she added the Sanders tax return caveat.

I'll throw it again, now, see if you can go get the ball!

"In October, as they gathered at a hotel outside Las Vegas to prepare for the first Democratic debate, Mr. Sanders’s advisers urged him to challenge Mrs. Clinton over accepting $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for delivering three speeches, according to two Sanders advisers. They thought the speaking fees meshed with the senator’s message about Wall Street excess and a rigged America. But Mr. Sanders, hunched over a U-shaped conference table, rejected it as a personal attack on Mrs. Clinton’s income — the sort of character assault he has long opposed. She has the right to make money, he offered."

Taken from Bernie's "autopsy." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html?

So, then you scramble to find a Hillary endorsed paper for more dirt. You try changing rules midstream. Your original post was about 27 times Bernie discussed the NY primary. Now your on to Bernie's original thoughts on her speech money. Sounds like a bipolar issue.

The fact that you don't like facts because they are published with sources not approved by the glorious leader of your "revolution" does, unfortunately for you, not stop them from being facts. They are direct quotes from Sanders and the campaign.

You are the one who trotted off subject with the speeches. Turns out Sanders is the one of two minds on the issue. Not convenient but still; factual. Nice of you to trivialize mental illness though. That's awesome.

Reading your "all over the board" responses concerns me. You started with one topic then responded with something totally different. If you honestly can't see that, I feel really sad for you. But I just want you to get help.

The "one topic" I responded to in this sub-thread was your assertion (not backed up with links or evidence) concerning the speeches.

I responded on the subject of speeches with links and more direct quotes.

You then poo-poo'd the information because the sources are not revolution approved and then trivialized mental illness -and now you're doubling down with obviously feigned concern.

It's called a hole, and you should put the shovel down now.

We do need you to send us another $27.00
So we can continue to fight and not win
in PA and MD.

This isn't about being passionate for one candidate or another, this is about the numbers and the game that Bernie signed up for. In order to win the Democratic Primary, he must land big in the closed primary states. He must convince Democrats that he's the man who best represents their interests. He must convince them that his policy goals and positions are also their policy goals and positions.

Simply being the cool, hip, outsider sticking it to the "man" won't do it. This is the game he volunteered for. These are the rules he accepted by coming over to the Democratic Party. If he wants the tools and toys the Democrats have, he has to earn that right by appealing to Democrats that he's the man for the job.

It doesn't matter about corruption in the party. It doesn't matter about name recognition and old habits dying hard. All of that was part of the package Bernie accepted when he joined the party. He has to get party Democrats behind him and not Hillary. That window of opportunity is rapidly closing. Pity, because I'd like to see a progressive run in the GE for a change.

that many of his supporters seem to think he is as pure as the driven snow and take standard campaign spin as gospel.

Reality will smack him in the face soon, like 9 hours from now.