.....The voting is now all but over, but Sanders is apparently going to continue to try to persuade super-delegates to support him.

The problem for Sanders is that this now requires him to explicitly call on the super-delegates to overturn the will of the voters as expressed in Dem primaries and caucuses. Given that she currently leads among them by 571-48, this would require a massive stampede away from the person who won far more votes.

Merkley — who is a super-delegate himself — said flatly that Sanders should not pursue this course any longer. “The super-delegates are set aside when you make the judgment that you have a majority of the pledged delegates,” Merkley told me. “I would not support a battle that involves trying to flip super-delegates.”

Grijalva, meanwhile, told me that he expected Sanders to continue trying to win over super-delegates, but only for a limited period of time.

“The reality is unattainable at some point. You deal with that. Bernie is going to deal with this much more rapidly than you think,” said Grijalva, who is also a super-delegate. “At some point, when we’re trying to flip 400 super-delegates, and it’s not gaining traction, I think you have to come to the conclusion that it’s not going to happen. You just move into a different direction. And that different direction is that we begin to try to integrate the party.”.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/08/top-supporters-of-bernie-sanders-gently-tell-him-its-time/

Because I am part of a reality-based community.

And while Sec. Clinton is not my first choice, she’s a hell of a lot better than Trump.

...now get to matching me.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/7/1535842/-I-support-Bernie-Sanders-And-I-just-donated-2700-to-Secretary-Clinton

Nate Cohn ?@Nate_Cohn 3h3 hours ago Washington, DC
More than 3.1 million absentee votes so far in California, per @paulmitche11 data. 68% older than age 55.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/paulmitche11#!/vizhome/PDIAV2016PrimaryWorksheet/PDI2016VOTERRETURNSDASHBOARD

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/740192455140777987

Nate Cohn ?@Nate_Cohn 14h14 hours ago Manhattan, NY
It should also be noted that many more ballots have been mailed but not yet received or tabulated by CA election officials

Live the Dream ?@aprogressivenow 14h14 hours ago
@busywriting @Nate_Cohn @paulmitche11 Last four presidential primaries: 00 - 7.9M, 04 - 6.7M, 08 - 9.1M, 12 - 5.3M http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee/ …

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.
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NOTE: Merkley supported Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whose campaign manager said yday will continue bid until July national convention

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-06-07/sanders-backer-sen-merkley-says-party-unity-to-begin-today