Elephant in the room

[MADem]

45. He's drawing them to listen to him--but not necessarily vote for him.

Howard Dean got big crowds too. A lot of those "young voters" either slept through election day, didn't bother registering, or "whatever, man."

And Libertarians and Rand Paul fans do attend Sanders' speeches, in appreciable numbers. I don't think he should count on their votes.

And more to the point, look who he's NOT drawing. You don't go into a community that is thirty percent black and think you're resonating when your audience isn't even ONE percent black. No black people in Greenville could be bothered to show up, even though they're almost a third of the population? They're not interested? Or, the most scurrilous yet oft-repeated charge I've read here--they're "low information voters?" I don't think that's the case--I think he's JUST not resonating, despite the new spokeswoman.

And no one's gonna win without the black and latino vote. That combined demographic holds the keys to the treasure house.