Bernie Sanders
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Greetings, my friends! As I promised, in The After-MATH: West Virginia, I have returned to talk about the upcoming primaries and, quite unlike the NY Times & other dishonest media outlets, I shall be providing real numbers, citing sources, and generally being a pain in the @$$ to the manufacturers of our consent because they hate it when you use numbers.
It is Wednesday, May 12th, weve just come out of our victory in West Virginia, and I thought I would take advantage of this moment to provide you all with a birds-eye view of the real numbers that we will be working with as the race continues. I hope this post will answer most of your number-related questions (you know? the ones the media refuses to talk about?) and even provide you with some good-lookin numbers that youve never seen before but, first, lets re-cap.
For those of you who are just now entering the conversation, I suggest you start with the first article This Is What Will Happen At the Democratic Convention then, proceed as ye wish (all of the Math vs. Media articles, in chronological order, are listed HERE).
How Are We Doing?
As Ive already covered in the latest After-MATH, our current target for the remaining pledged delegates stands at 65.6% and, although the target has slipped about 1% from our original 64.4%, our recent string of victories has endowed us with the momentum that we need as we go into the last May primaries on the 17th. When we take those states (yes, I believe we will take them & Ill soon explain why), we will have won literally every state that voted in May and we will be going into the all-important June primaries with a lot of momentum! (Meanwhile, Clinton will have only a single, shriveled delegate from May, as a souvenir
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much more: https://johnlaurits.com/2016/05/12/the-real-numbers-oregon-kentucky-beyond/
fasttense
(17,301 posts)I went to the link and then read up on what the Democratic convention will be like. I am so relived. I know if Hillary gets it, we a bound to end up with Trump.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)That was a great piece. I'm feeling VERY, VERY positive about Oregon, Kentucky, SD, ND, Montana AND California! NJ? I dunno...they DID reelect Christie knowing how bad a Governor he was, so it's hard to say. One would think, after hurricane Sandy and how they were left to fend for themselves, they would know better than to vote for someone like Clinton.
Thanks for posting this.
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silvershadow
(10,336 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Last edited Fri May 13, 2016, 02:00 PM - Edit history (1)
Hearing now scheduled for June 6th. No link bec. posting from phone. See http://abc7ny.com.
EDIT: Now I see that CNN reports it's only delayed till next Tuesday. (?)(?)
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)support their candidate for some reason. Also turnout was less than 40%.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)A female Dem candidate, right?
I sure hope NJ Berniecrats show up in droves to vote.
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LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)NJ tends to be Democratic FWIW. Christie's re-election was called a landslide of course. But with fewer than 40% bothering to vote I'd say apathy was the biggest "winner."