Congratulations to Bernie and his people, but... [View all]

[RBInMaine]

Last edited Sun Mar 27, 2016, 08:15 AM - Edit history (1)

We are fair and gracious and do send Bernie and his people congratulations for being motivated and organized for these caucuses. I have to say I do wish more Hillary supporters in those states had gone out to caucus, but there was little doubt the young single Bernie people were going to come out for these long caucus sessions in larger numbers. Remember, these are caucuses which require much more time and public voting which working people, older people, and parents with small kids have more difficultly attending. Remember that if these had been primaries, turnouts would have been much higher, more diverse, and many more Hillary supporters would have voted. And, Hillary still picked up some delegates. She remains ahead in the pledged delegate count by about 270. Over the next few weeks, the race returns to large diverse primary states like WI, NY, and PA where Hillary will most likely win and continue to build her insurmountable lead over Bernie. Bernie just had his best day, and still he is WAY behind in the delegate count.

For all intents and purposes, this race was over after Super Tuesday. If you look historically, nobody who has won as much as Hillary did on Super Tuesday has lost the nomination. Hillary will win the nomination. Bernie is too far behind. This has been the fact for several weeks now. I think Bernie wants to stay in it in order to have some pull on the Dem national platform and to make a presence at the convention. But he and his people know that without divine intervention he isn't going to be the nominee. The math just doesn't work for him.

So good for the Bernie folks and for Bernie. And now we go on to WI, NY, and PA.