Kentucky Courier Journal on the Kentucky Primary Campaign

[George II]

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2016/05/15/sanders-spends-weekend-campaigning-kentucky/84415116/

Bowling Green, Ky. Bernie Sanders spent the weekend in Western Kentucky trying to convince voters that he can win the Democratic primary for president and perhaps, more importantly, that he is best positioned to beat presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in the November election.

"Think very hard about which candidate and which campaign is most likely to beat Donald Trump," said Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, to a crowd Saturday night in Bowling Green. "We do very well with Democrats but we also do very well with independents and the Democratic leadership may not know it yet but independents are the fastest growing segment of the American political system."

While polling suggests that Sanders may be best suited to beat Trump in the fall, his argument that he can actually overtake Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination may be more difficult to believe.

With only eight state primaries to go and 1,053 delegates outstanding, Clinton leads Sanders by 767 delegates. For Sanders to overtake her at the Democratic National Convention in July, Sanders would have to win a huge percentage of remaining delegates and convince a huge number of superdelegates to bolt from Clinton.

The Associated Press views that scenario so unlikely that it is no longer covering Sanders on the campaign trail.

[lunamagica]

1. Oh,snap!

[NurseJackie]

2. Daaaamn!

[anotherproletariat]

3. Finally! I have been wondering why a fringe candidate, who has no chance of getting the nomination

was still being covered by the media. I really hope that Hillary is at least within 20 points in both Oregon and Kentucky, which would give them each essentially the same number of delegates (counting supers) and AGAIN show Sanders supporters that the math is against him.

[Sheepshank]

4. While Trump moves to GE activities, Bernie holds back Hillary merely for optics

its time to quit spending $ on the Primaries and move to the GE, with money, time, energy and effort being split between 2 campaigns, its very inefficient.