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RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 06:03 AM May 2016

Bernie Sanders will not be the nominee, and wild-eyed conspiracy theories won't change that.

Bernie doesn't have the votes, plain and simple. He doesn't have the PLEDGED delegates. Plain and simple. Nothing has been rigged. Nothing has been stolen from anyone. Bernie, someone who was never even a member of the party, is BEHIND because Hillary has gotten millions more votes from voters in these primaries. It was always a long shot for Bernie, as he said himself repeatedly in the early days of the campaign.

Hillary is brilliant, progressive, and the most qualified person to run for president in recent history. She is more qualified than Bernie, who is a good man who means well but who just doesn't have her breadth of experience, especially on foreign policy.

As to assertions about Bernie being "stronger against Trump," Bernie hasn't been fully vetted at all so those arguments are baseless. If he was nominated, the R's would jump for joy and start running ENDLESS "anti-socialist/communist" ads night and day. It would demolish him. It would be a NIGHTMARE for our party. The large majority of Americans simply are not socialists.

And there you have it.

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Bernie Sanders will not be the nominee, and wild-eyed conspiracy theories won't change that. (Original Post) RBInMaine May 2016 OP
Exactly...if there was a mercy rule in politics, this primary would have been called! Sancho May 2016 #1

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
1. Exactly...if there was a mercy rule in politics, this primary would have been called!
Wed May 18, 2016, 06:28 AM
May 2016

Hillary has been ahead on every metric from the beginning...

more votes
more pledged delegates
more super delegates
more money
more union endorsements
more Democratic leader endorsements
more newspaper endorsements

Hillary has outpaced Obama's record from 2008.

The media wants to pretend it's a contest so they can get ratings. Bernie pretends he has a chance while he is raking in $s.

She now has less than a hundred delegates to clinch. She may be down to a handful after Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands!

It's over...and time for Bernie to concede and campaign for the Democratic party (if he's really a Democrat).

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