PURE SPECULATION: Could Bernie be staying in because he knows something we don't?
As the title indicates, this is pure speculation and not based on any kind of insider knowledge.
Many of the Hillary folks have said that Bernie sounds delusional when he talks about flipping the superdelegates. I happen to agree with them on that, as I believe it is highly unlikely that the establishment Democrats who make up the superdelegates would override the will of the primary voters to take the nomination away from someone like Hillary in favor of someone like Bernie (the other way around is a different story).
In fact, I am pretty confident the superdelegates would not do such a thing, UNLESS something happened that rendered Hillary completely unelectable. Something big enough that it would be reasonable for the supers to conclude that the voters would have chosen differently had they known (think Edwards scandal in 2008).
The other day, after the IG report came out, I was wondering if perhaps Bernie knows/knew something that we don't that plays a part in motivating him to take it all the way to the convention. At first, I thought that was unlikely, because Bernie is such an outsider and so much of the party establishment is in Hillary's corner that it's unlikely he would have an inside track on information.
But then I remembered that Tad Devine, one of Bernie's campaign managers, was one of Kerry's top people in 2004.
As the current Secretary of State, there is a decent chance Kerry knows whether the Clinton e-mail scandal is big enough to tank her candidacy, or whether there is some other scandal lurking that is totally unrelated to the e-mails. And unlike many in the party establishment, Kerry has no reason at this point to be beholden to the Clintons, and in fact he is one of the few Democrats I trust not to be given his history. But I would assume that he, like most Democrats and most sane Americans, does not want to see Trump become president.
So is it possible that he or someone who works with him could have sent some sort of a signal to the Bernie campaign, probably through Devine, that Bernie should stay in the race? Obviously, I am not talking about leaking any classified information - he wouldn't have to and I have no reason to believe he would. All he would have to do is say something innocuous if he ran into Devine at an event, something like "I hope Bernie stays in until the end."
I can't speak for all Bernie supporters, but I myself am not hoping for an indictment or any other scandal that will take down Hillary. I have accepted at this point that she will probably be the nominee. But if her actions at State with e-mail or anything else were more damning than is currently public, I sure as hell hope it comes out before it's too late. And if my theory somehow turned out to be true, I would be pretty darn grateful to Kerry for helping to prevent a President Trump.
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Obama's been rope-a-dopin' Hillary all along. The look he gives when he talks about her reminds me of the look he had in the debate where he said something like "they like you enough, Hillary". The most recent that I saw was @ the correspondents dinner where he joked about her being tech savvy...the laugh afterword.."Ha Ha" OMG I almost spit take'd.
He knows how bad she can be, better than almost anyone. He knows that she did all of this w/ Blumenthal after he told her not to. that, IMHO, is why he's giving her enough rope to hang herself with.
whether Bernie is still in or not.
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He does not act as if he is anything but doggedly plugging away, and the fact an INDEPENDENT with no ties to the DNC or fears of them stepped up at age 74 --
He knows where stuff is going, and he is keeping clean hands while she goes down.
<-- I am not a Washington Insider. Pure gut. 
Like support for fracking in Bulgaria.
Good work.
