Can Sanders or O'Malley win? Yes. How? Basic math.

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121. Arnold won more than once. And he won DECISIVELY the second time around--it was a rout.

You could also talk about the Republicans who didn't kill themselves spending money, too, if you'd like.

You still aren't explaining where all this magical money is coming from. There are a LOT of Democrats who won't withhold their money, but they'll funnel it to Senate and House contests, rather than waste it in a Presidential contest that is bound for failure--and that is what will happen if Sanders is the nominee of the Democratic party. No one chews off their own hand, and for people who make their money from their investments and legacy boatloads of money, Sanders has his hand in their pocketbook and they don't like that shit one bit.

California will elect someone who plays the centrist, who doesn't have a reputation for screwing corporations, industries, who puts forth a friendly and 'reasonable' attitude (even if they don't possess that attitude). "Jeb!" has that patter down. You watch him scurry right to the center as soon as he locks down the nomination (assuming Rubio or Walker don't find a way to trip him up). Sanders can't beat "Jeb!" I don't think O'Malley can, either but he might have a better shot than Sanders. America doesn't need to get to know "Jeb!" They've already seen him hanging around. They even know all about his criminal children and his smuggling wife, and they haven't run him out of town on a rail for that.

Sanders has expressed his disdain for PACs, and has said he won't "take" PAC money, which means that even the 2 PACS already in existence that are gathering money he says he doesn't want are going to have to rely on dumb voters to get any money. Without PAC money, candidates are toast. Many PACS exist to just run negative ads, how's he gonna counter those? By the time the Koch-Adelson bunch get done with him, he'll have all the cachet of a child molester. That's how they got Martha Coakley--of all the ads the GOP PACS ran in the last MA gubernatorial race, only a quarter were "Pro-Baker." Most were "Martha Coakley is the devil incarnate." Over, and over, and over again. They raked her over the coals. That's how they play it. And the party with the most PAC ads (and they've got to be good, too--colorful, memorable, engaging), wins.