The rhetoric around "only Hillary can win!" is bad enough.

[MineralMan]

50. Well, anyone can post anything on DU.

I've seen very few OPs that oppose Senator Sanders' entry into the primary race. Frankly, I haven't bothered with those threads, because they're simply ridiculous and have no bearing on anything. DU is an open forum, so anyone can post any damned fool thing they please here.

I take elections and electoral politics very seriously. Despite my support for Bernie Sanders, I will be voting and campaigning during the general election for the candidate selected at the national convention. That will never change. I'd prefer that Sanders was that candidate, but my political experience leads me to believe he will not be. More's the pity, frankly.

We'll hear at length from all Democratic primary candidates, and then there will be Democratic primary elections. The results of those will determine who the eventual candidate will be. That's the system that is in place. I've worked within that system since I was a 15-year-old sophomore in high school in one way or another. It's far from a perfect system, to be sure. Too few people vote in primaries, so the ideal candidate often isn't the nominee on the general election ballot.

I live now in a caucus and convention state, although we do have a primary election, too. That system is fairly prone to being overwhelmed by a small number of supporters. I know a lot of the people who are most active in that caucus and convention system. I could probably predict who will be the delegates from my district to the state convention right now. I might possibly be able to become one of those delegates in 2016, and I'll try. But, what gets people elected as delegates is recognition as a leader by delegates to the district conventions. I'm not sure I have quite enough of that to create a caucus large enough to get me selected as a state convention delegate. We'll see.

I'm not paying any attention, frankly, to some posts and posters on DU right now. Some are posting things that make little to no sense, and from all directions. If an OP presents a silly argument, I simply move on to other threads. And that's the case will all OPs that suggest that Sanders shouldn't be in the primary race. Such posts are simply silly and meaningless.

It's a long time until November, 2016. It's a short time, though until the process of primary elections and caucuses begins. I'm focused on legislative races right now, not the presidential race, because I have more influence in them.