BTRTN 2020 Vision: Can Bernie Be Stopped? State of the Race, a Nevada Preview, and Beyond

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Born To Run The Number's hot-off-the-presses snapshot of the 2020 Presidential race, with its prediction for the results of the Nevada caucuses, a look ahead to South Carolina and the Super Tuesday races, and an analysis of whether or not Bernie Sanders can be stopped:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/02/btrtn-2020-vision-can-bernie-be-stopped.html

Excerpts: "Bernie Sanders, despite managing only a squeaker of a win in New Hampshire (next door to his native Vermont) over Pete Buttigieg, in a commanding position in the race. He’s the odds-on leader in Nevada, in the top tier in South Carolina, and well-positioned in Super Tuesday polling. Mike Bloomberg loomed large over the field as the geyser-spending mystery guest for months, but when he finally made a live appearance in the Nevada debates, proved to be tentative, uninspiring, and shockingly under-prepared to defend his very obvious soft spots. The centrists are now scrambling to coalesce around a candidate from among Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar and stop the suddenly zooming Sanders’ express train to the Democratic Convention. Elizabeth Warren may have revived her candidacy with her skewering of Bloomberg, which could help slow down Sanders. But the field is already game-planning for a brokered convention, with only Sanders believing that the candidate with the most delegates should definitively get the nomination..."

"Can Bernie be derailed? Sanders is in a compelling position, to say the least. But there are at least a few plausible ways one can see this turning..."

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