If that happens the DP will split asunder and Bernie will probably end up running as an Independent. The threat of that split will be enough to STOP it from happening. Unless Bloomberg has an EQUAL or GREATER number of delegates going INTO the convention the Dem Establishment are going to have to make Bernie their candidate or end up destroying the party. While I do NOT trust the Dem Establishment to do what is right for We the People I have no doubt whatsoever that they will do what is BEST for their OWN power and making Bernie their candidate will mean they get to maintain their own power. They will just shift their focus onto winning the Senate instead.
Your criminal IMPOTUS has already set our nation on course for bankruptcy just like he did to his own corporations. Blaming Bernie for INHERITING the fiscal malfeasance of your criminal IMPOTUS would be disingenuous.
It means that Bernie doesn't owe SQUAT to the GREED OBSESSED Wall Street Casino Banksters. No wonder they are so SCARED of him winning.
Sometimes you're right when you fade the high influencers of the herd. Sometimes you're not. There's really no way to know in advance. That's why they hold elections and the entire herd, or rather only those who are registered and want to, get to speak loud, and they're unpredictable. Sometimes they're even mad as hell.
We accomplish the election on one day. I guess they want drama and anticipation, but they should hold "Primary Day" on one day, later in the cycle. Finish all the debates, rallies and advertising - then have a month-long early voting period capped by a primary nominee vote. People who vote in early states may change their vote after more debates and information. People voting in later states may be influenced by who is winning early states.
What's up with this snapshot? Live results are showing Buttigieg with 1 delegate, but he doesn't have 15%. Perhaps they are about to dump more results and haven't caught up the vote count.
Regardless, if Bernie has a Plurality (without a Majority) the scale of that Plurality matters. There is a big difference between 1700 and 1400. And, if the Bernie People don't get their way and they want to "cut off their nose in spite of their face" they are free to do it. But, it would only help Trump.
Popular Vote. Buttigieg does score 15%. (That explains it.) 96.28% Reporting Bernie winning on 40% of the popular vote to earn almost 47% of the delegates. Good ground game.
Are we sure that the 15% cutoff doesn't factor in at the district level instead of the State level? Oh, right. Yea, the 15% cutoff is based on the popular vote.
Andrew Yang on CNN the other day was saying to watch Buttigieg because he thought Pete had the ground game strategy to win low-population, but delegate-rich areas of Nevada. Looks like Yang should have been talking about Bernie. Buttigieg is doing the worst in getting votes, but not a similar proportion of delegate rewards.
Yes, it would help the criminal IMPOTUS and it would EXPOSE the Dem Establishment as no longer being worthy of the votes of We the People.
Make no mistake about it, Commissar Bernie's oligarchy will consist of himself and the rest of the nomenklatura and apparatchiks in Washington. Like all socialists he is by necessity a statist, not a libertarian who will decentralize and diffuse power to individual citizens. If you think things are bad now Sanders will only make them exponentially worse. I cringe at the thought of how much more power he wants to hand himself and his comrades in the federal government.
My three take-aways: Commissar Bernie's margin of victory was mighty impressive. Klobuchar is notably absent from that table. Her faceplant at the debate obviously hurt her big time. Looks like Biden might be getting ready to become relevant in this race. Super Tuesday will be more telling...
But his attempts at a major governmental totalitarian power grab might scare some sense into people who don't understand what Socialism means. Congress would block him, in true bipartisan unity....for the first time in a long while. I want him to be the nominee. I think the general election will scare enough people out of believing in Socialism, even if it means four more years of Trump. We need to have the "What Socialism Really Means" conversation in this country. This seems like a fine time to give it a stage.
Yes, I'm watching the primaries/caucuses with interest, but not with alarm. People are getting knotted up over Sanders winning 40,000 votes in Nevada. There will be over 125,000,000 voting in the general. Media makes everything bigger than life these days.
