certain elements may decide that winning is more important then saving face.

candidate running as a Democrat off the battle, and the war being the general election

Granted the same access as any other Democratic candidate. I will likely vote for Hillary if she eins fair and square, but I see shenanigans, all bets are off.

You can't make this stuff up.

As such, we do not have a real national election, we have fifty synchronized state elections.

So if that happens, it has nothing to do with the current Democratic Party shutting Sanders out of the election through electoral jigggery pokery.

Sanders has said that he will do what ever it takes to run in all fifty states. The Democratic Party even made an announcement that to qualify to be the nominee, all he needed to do was to win delegates.

I am not sure why this story keeps surfacing.

the White House than for Bernie to become President, because I think for DINOs the real division is between the riff-raff and the fat-cats.

So it would not surprise me if corporatist Democrats undermined the democratic party to freeze out Bernie.

As to the truth of this specific rumor, I have not heard anything about it.

according to the rules. Maybe he should register as a democrat? He has also said he will not run a spoiler campaign and he seems to be a man of ethics and I believe he would stand behind that.

I also read same thing is true in Illinois, which means Obama wasn't a registered Dem either. If that is true, then they've set the precedent by allowing Obama on so if the Dem Party leaders try to leave Bernie out it will show their true colors, that they only want allow corporate Dems on the ballots any more.

In his state it is non-partisan. I'm not registered as a Democrat either. I was a precinct chair in 2008. The only requirements for that were that I voted Democrat in the last or current election.

ButSanders problem is that he claims he is not a Democrat.

After watching Claire McCaskill's (D) lame attack on him, it might be a plus.

The DNC does not set the rules, the states do.

spell his name and be prepared to write him in.

FEEL THE BERN!

Not directly related, but in '08, a couple of states had moved their primaries earlier than the DLC authorized, Obama and Hillary said they wouldn't campaign in those states to honor the DNC's wishes, somehow Hillary's name ended up on the ballot but not Obama's, then later on Hillary tried to get those delegates counted for her.

I may not have every detail right, but I'm pretty confident in its general accuracy. Playing dirty like that caused a lot of controversy, but they thought it was worth it and went for it anyway. I wouldn't be surprised to see Bernie excluded for some primaries, I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

candidates should not be on the Democratic ballot

Its's a recent example (the last primary) by the same candidate (Hillary) to bend the primary rules in a highly controversial way to get delegates from a state or states without her opponent having been on the ballot.

I made no claim that it is the situation you are describing, merely that is a relevant precedent, and we should beware.

Again thanks for your position on this issue, having everyone on the ballot, I appreciate it.

DU does not get to do that.