The simple reason why the DNC wants to limit the number of debates.

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121. But I viewed that as a comment relevant to the original post...

... as a reason to fear Republicans winning. I was putting yet another reason to be concerned with Republicans winning, and what I felt to be an even bigger reason than this one, since the survival of the human race is far more important than just what the state of the Supreme Court is at some point in terms of who's on it (albeit it will be a very bad thing if we get more right wingers on it too).

I just thought not just looking at one issue as a blinder to everything else in the world that is relevant to this election was a good thing to do, especially on issues that are arguably more important to everyone and every element of life on this earth.

It depends on what poll you look at. The one just done in Wisconsin finds a lot closer race.

My concern is that we need to find ways to mobilize the masses to make sure we don't lose this election. The debt that is growing the most now is student debt. Young people are feeling very alienated to politics now, as they see the corporate money driven agendas of both polticians and their funders drowning out everything else and making them feel "Why Bother?!".

If Sanders mobilizes people to the extent he has already without big money donors and this continues, that is an inspiration to many to become a part of the process that they felt might be hopeless before.

Many at this point were saying Hillary had it locked up with the numbers she had at this point in 2007 too. But there's a long road ahead, and Bernie's running a very unique campaign, and we're in unique times too.

Many other countries like Greece and Spain, when pushed hard enough throw out their main traditional parties to try a new approach when they've felt screwed enough by them. I think we're reaching that tipping point here in America too. Bernie represents the hope many want out there, and I think his message and campaign style will be hard even for big money to fight, but we've still got to see what happens yet.

If someone like Bernie doesn't run, I think democracy as a system in this country is doomed, and we might as well hold up our hands vertically and say "Heil Kochs!", or perhaps what Fred Koch's business parter Joseph Stalin would rather us do rather than what the Germans would want us to do.

I'm concerned that if we don't have someone representing the masses, and just have "corporate friendly" candidates in the general election to choose from, that we'll have what happened in 2014, where people that are liberal enough in their wants for society to vote in things like higher minimum wages by propositions in at least four red states that they don't have to worry about having a personality to screw them through lies, but who voted in Republicans (or just didn't bother voting in other races) when they feel that they were damned if they do and damned if they didn't, by politicians from either party that would lie to them about what they would do for them.