2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Wins California!
Because David Dayen Says So:
Bernie Sanders Has Already Won California
This is why we fight:
Delegates and vote counts and nominations aside, Sanderss campaign has reinvented Democratic politics in California. Whennot ifhis progressive successors rebuild the coalition, it will change liberal politics, both here and across the country.
And will keep fighting to the bitter end.
https://newrepublic.com/article/133945/bernie-sanders-already-won-california
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Hillary clinches, California doesn't matter
2banon
(7,321 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Best get used to it. Hillarys wins the primary race and is pronounce the democratic nominee 9 pm Tuesday night...
2banon
(7,321 posts)the only way to be so certain of an election result which hasn't occurred yet, is if election fraud is involved.
Duly Noted.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)will make their decision. No super delegate will support a candidate sporting a mug shot. I am sick of people saying states don't matter. They all do and if she's the one, she will need them all to beat trump which general election polling shows her losing to him. I would keep the smug cheap shots to yourself.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Renew Deal
(81,853 posts)Biden
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)That's a straw the Bernie side has grasped at ever since it became clear he was the loser.
2banon
(7,321 posts)Thank you so much Meteor Man..
This all made Hillary Clinton look like the perfect candidate for California. She garnered all the important endorsements, including governor and one-time bitter rival Jerry Brown. She certainly has the name ID. And shes had an edge throughout the Democratic primary season with minority voterswhich bodes well for a majority-minority state. A year ago this time, Clinton was up on Sanders in the well-respected Field Poll by a rather intimidating margin: 66-9.
But recent enhancements to voter registration laws have fostered political participation in California. Diligent work by progressives in 2012 to mobilize young and minority voters helped save the state, in fact, when they turned out to pass a budget-balancing tax hike on people making over $500,000 a year. (Dont believe the Jerry Brown hagiographies; it was progressives, who forced Brown to place a winnable initiative on the ballot, who really primed California for its turnaround.) In just the first three months of this year, nearly 1 million voters registeredmost of them Democratic, with big spikes for Latinos and young voters.
What is more striking is how the demographic splits weve seen across the country in the primaries arent translating to California. Sanders is only losing the Latino vote in the Field Poll 46-42. The African-American vote, while in favor of Clinton, is not the blowout weve seen elsewhere (57-36), and Sanders is winning the Asian-American/other category, which is actually bigger than the black vote (there are twice as many Asian-Americans as African-Americans in California), by a healthy margin.
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Renew Deal
(81,853 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)BzaDem
(11,142 posts)Of course, in any relevant sense, the primary will be settled within a few weeks (and in most relevant senses, was settled in March). There comes a point where people just stop paying attention to the few who claim it isn't settled.