2016 Postmortem

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...and the more they find out about him, the more they like him: long career of honesty and straight shooting; no corporate/billionaire money for his campaign; campaign financed entirely by millions of small donors--an astonishing accomplishment; New Deal-like programs to right the wrong of vast income inequality; decades of experience at the in's and out's of Congress, where he is well-liked; always attending to the needs of the many against the greed of the few. He is the candidate millions have hoped for, for decades--millions who thought it would never happen.

The contrary is true of Clinton. People are getting better informed about her, and the more they find out, the less they like her: her corruption of the Sec of State's office with pay-to-play at the Clinton Foundation, her use of her own email server for those transactions as well as getting classified info from a man with no security clearance whom Obama had banned from the administration--Sydney Blumenthal; her use of Henry Kissinger as an adviser, for godssakes, AND Robert (chief neocon) Kagan! (want wars much? Jeez!); her waffling on all major issues (now she's for the TPP and says it's the "gold standard" of trade agreements, now she's against it, sort of, etc.). Not trustworthy. Not honest. Sent her own daughter out in the media to lie about Sanders' health care plan. $200,000+ speeches to Goldman Sachs, of all the scumbags in the world! There are just SO MANY reasons to conclude that she is simply NOT the candidate of the 99% that Democrats are supposed to be (and have been historically).

But Sanders IS!

Sanders' gigantic rallies all over the country are working.
Internet activism is working.
Phone banking and canvassing are working.
Sanders' truly great ads are working.
Word of mouth is working.

The handicaps that this campaign have been burdened with have been enormous--some of them inflicted by our own party on Clinton's behalf. And now Sanders is catching up, in Clinton/Sanders matchups--from 50% down to only 5% down!--that is phenomenal!--and has been ahead of Clinton in matchups with Trump all along (beats Trump by twice the margin that Clinton does).

The Democratic Party establishment wants to crown a candidate who can't "close the deal." With her huge advantages, she should've been wa-a-a-y ahead by now. It should be over and it ISN'T. That is the "Seabiscuit"-like strength of the Sanders campaign.