2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLast night's Net Delegate haul...
SandersNorth Dakota: +8
Montana: +1
Total: +9
Clinton
New Jersey: +28
New Mexico: +2
South Dakota: 0
California: +83
Total: +113
Net Total: +104
(source: CNN)
apcalc
(4,465 posts)So now she has how many total?
2100 or so? 2200?
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)Clinton +391
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)We're screwn!
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Way to close out strong, Madame Nominee!
(With apologies to DC, who I am certain will pad her total even further!)
Sancho
(9,067 posts)It's getting silly at this point. This was a complete massacre.
Hillary set a modern record for endorsements by political leaders.
Hillary won the base including unions, diversity organizations, and notables.
Hillary raised the most money.
Hillary won with small group and moderate rallies, a detailed proposal for change, and personal appeal. She didn't print signs or run negative ads. She only ran a small number of ads of any kind.
Hillary won pledged delegate, super delegates, and the votes of people.
Hillary won in the most diverse states, and only lost strange primaries like caucuses not available to some voters, or races where repubs could disrupt the vote by crossing over.
Hillary even helped down ticket candidates.
At this point, calling it a "contested" convention is semantics. There's no contest. Bernie needs to learn from the master like a good grasshopper - and concede gracefully. He needs to hold rallies to support the Democratic nominee. He needs to go after Trump and attack the GOP. He needs to raise money for the progressive Democratic party.
If he does, he may have a job. If not he may end up as the ambassador from Burlington to Denmark - never to be heard from again.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)microphone and the spotlight as long as possible.....until he can blackmail his way to be bought off......truth hurts
his real character is no longer hidden and many of his supporters no longer deny it and admit they were mistaken about what sanders is
ProfessorPlum
(11,256 posts)I want you to think about why Sanders ran. You know that he never really thought he had a chance to beat Clinton - the deck was way stacked in her favor from the beginning. And so, if not to win, why run?
Perhaps to get a message out - that banks don't have to rule us, that corruption can be fought against, that we don't have to monger war, that there exist Democrats who don't want corporations to make every decision for us.
And with the idea that getting that message out is the most important thing, even apart from winning or losing, doesn't it make a little more sense that Sanders would keep his hand on the bullhorn for as long as possible?
his run was always more about education than victory. Look at the type of campaign he ran, and the gentlemanly way he refrained from attacking Clinton in dozens of ways that would have hurt her.
_Thats_ why he has been in it this long - and why people continue to support him. It is his message . .