Bernie Sanders Desperate For Win In Saturday’s Contest As Hillary Clinton Nears Clinching Nomination

[SecularMotion]

The U.S. Virgin Islands caucus will start at 10 a.m. and results are expected to come out by early afternoon. There are seven pledged delegates to go along with five superdelegates up for grabs.

It could be an important moment for Sanders, who has settled on a strategy that involves a big finish in the remaining primaries coupled with an active outreach to superdelegates, who would need to jump from Clinton’s side to his en masse in order to put him over the top.

It’s a long shot, and the results of the 2016 Virgin Islands caucus will likely make it a bit harder. While there is no polling from the American territory, the demographic heavily favors Hillary Clinton. The islands’ population of 106,405 is mostly Afro-Caribbean, and Clinton has held large leads among African-American voters.

With Virgin Islands voting on Saturday and Puerto Rico on Sunday, Hillary Clinton has a chance to pick up a big chunk of the 73 delegates she needs to clinch the nomination. The caucuses are worth a total of 79 delegates, and if she wins both as expected then she could have the race clinched even before results from California are announced.

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[passiveporcupine]

1. OMG OMG OMG

[flor-de-jasmim]

2. a) Desperation is in the eyes of the beholder; and (yet)

b) For those "beholding" recent poll numbers, Clinton is behind. If she loses, her momentum is gone.

After all, NO ONE expected the election to be this close.

[hack89]

6. It is not close

Her delegate lead is very large by historical comparisons.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Looking for good results

[jonmac511]

4. nice to know

The fact that 5 super delegates account for >40% of the virgin islands voice. The rules are the rules but they should change the name to the oligarch party because they're not very democratic.

[MFM008]

5. Her momentum may slow

But it doesn't change the numbers.
She needs 65 delegates as of tonight.
She will have those by Tuesday night.

[heaven05]

7. face it

Bernie will not win the nomination for our Party leadership role, yet I know that he can be a very important voice for reason, anti corporatebanking thinking when it comes to US and a true man of integrity and principle, not just a money grubbing, power seeking politician. Barring a true miracle 'from on high', I will be voting for the candidate of our Party in November. No ifs, no whining and threatening to not vote(very childish) given who could possibly slip into that office and no Green Party or other insane votes, given who could be YOUR POTUS in January

Let's all of us be adult and accept compromise that will deny Trump and and his followers their wish to destroy the human race.

Pragmatic thinking is the choice now.

[reddread]

8. "Sanders struggles"

and that was just the first week of the campaign.
and the second and third un so weiter.

its just a desperate struggle to elect Trump while running as a third party Nader commie.


where I come from, only losers lie knowingly.