Kudos to Bernie for surviving this interview by Andrea Mitchell.

[Volaris]

67. I don't think so.

If Bernie Shows in Iowa, and wins (or even narrows his gap) in Hew Hampshire, they HAVE to report it. When they do, word will be out in a way it's not now about what he wants to do and how he wants to do it, and if that reaches critical mass BEFORE super tuesday, my bet will be it's game over.

Now, to build up Hillary a bit...If she learned anything form her last attempt at this, it's not to ignore early caucus states. Her ground game will be MASSIVE this time around, and the machine that supports her isn't likely to brook any bullshit from thier in-state operators. They will lean as hard as they have to on local party officials, just to make sure they have the superdelagates lined up like they need to, JUST IN CASE.

I don't think it's going to devolve into a dirt-fight, but it's going to be a very serious-minded contest between 2 people who, I think, really do represent the best of the Democratic Party--it's past victories due to hard work, endurance and and understanding of the Long Haul (Progressive pragmatists and deal-making and Clinton) and it's future and the possibilities it rightly should contain (Liberals and radical reformers and Sanders). For Clinton to be effective, she needs only to win, because she knows how to cut deals and work out compromises with any opposition there might be in Congress. For Sanders to be effective, he will almost REQUIRE a Congress as idealogically motivated as he is, and good luck with that for the forseeable future. I suppose a President Sanders could roll back a lot of Executive Orders that aren't much to anyones liking, and probably issue some new ones that are, but he doesn't strike me as someone who would make use of the tactics of the Imperial Presidency, even in an effort to curtail a lot of the worst excesses OF the Imperial Presidency. He DOES strike me as a President who would use the shit out of the Bully Pulpit to hit any opposition HARD AND KEEP HITTING IT UNTIL HE GETS THE CONGRESS HE WANTS, and that level of willingness to FIGHT would be a nice change of pace for an off-year election, even if it means we would have to wait 2-4 years for anything really substantial to get done.

I signed up to volunteer for Bernie Sanders campaign.
That doesn't mean I'll be all pissy if Hillary wins, because there's good there, too.
I WILL SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.
Yours in Solidarity,
Vol