OMG BERNIE SANDERS IS SO FAR BEHIND IN THE POLLS YOU GUYS

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180. Yes, I should have been talking about that surge starting right around October, not March...

... March in 2008 was when it ended, not started. My bad in trying to write something quickly yesterday. But note that this surge started a few months before Edwards pulled out, in the times leading up to the Iowa caucus where Obama had a big win. So, Obama was surging with undecided and other candidates voters then. At the end, he grabbed a big chunk of Edwards voters then. The question is how many of Hillary's voters today are devoted as the 40 percent that was there for her then. Arguably many of them are just saying they support Hillary as up until now there haven't been other contenders that they've known yet like they did with both Edwards and Obama then (and arguably other candidates like Kucinich and Biden as well in the field too).

The point is that we're still very early in the season, and large surges of voters moving to another candidate has happened that can happen for Sanders too this time around, despite the media and other corporate entities trying to give this race to NON-incumbent Hillary Clinton. Traditionally, the Democratic Party hasn't just given the nomination to a candidate when that candidate is not an incumbent.

Basically numbers as many others say here as well don't mean that much (much as the corporate media would like them to) until later when the primary season actually starts and candidates campaigns are more underway then.