Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumIt's not math, it's calculus! - ooh I like that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/the-democrats-are-headed-for-a-contested-convention-too_b_9620362.htmlSo heres what the Sanders campaign and certain commentators have been trying to tell us about the math: the math shows that the Clinton campaign is collapsing. The math shows that super-delegates backed Clinton before any votes had been cast and before her campaign had imploded an implosion that was not so much caused by unforced errors but by the historic strength of the Sanders campaign, as evidenced by its mobilization of young voters, record-breaking fundraising, and, most importantly, upward trajectory in the actual voting across the course of a five-month presidential primary season. And the math will show that Bernie Sanders polls much better than Clinton against every possible Republican candidate both nationally and in every battleground state.
But most importantly, the math would show, in this scenario, that not only had all the comparisons to the 2008 primary race been inapt, but that all the references to primary math as algebraic had occluded the fact that, in actuality, what were dealing with here is a very complicated and deeply human calculus.
And that calculus is leading the Democratic Party straight to a contested convention in Philadelphia this summer.
Merryland
(1,134 posts)it will be as bitterly divisive as the Humphrey-McCarthy chaos in 1968 Chicago. I am not saying there will be blood in the streets or battered heads, but she wouldn't win over a Republican, nor did Humphrey. People were disgusted, as they are now, at the corrupt system.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)I'm sorry that I lost the link; maybe someone else has it.
What will happen this time that's different from '68, is that people on the streets and people in the convention center will be able to communicate by cell phone. As soon as the number 'mysteriously' turn from Bernie to Hillary, things are going to get noisy.
I just hope the demonstration monitors are able to keep it peaceful.
DemocracyDirect
(708 posts)And she won't inspire any independents to vote for her.
But she will inspire a lot of Republicans to vote against her.