No, Sanders isn't gaining on Clinton, but that doesn't mean he hasn't won

[kentuck]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/28/1388491/-No-Sanders-isn-t-gaining-on-Clinton-but-that-doesn-t-mean-he-hasn-t-won?detail=facebook_sf

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Insiders familiar with the thinking of the Clinton campaign described it as “frightened” of Sanders — not that he would win the nomination, but that he could damage her with the activist base by challenging her on core progressive positions in debates and make her look like a centrist or corporatist.

There's one way to deal with that: don't be a centrist or corporatist. Keep staking out the left on issues important to base constituencies. Agitate against TPP (no matter how loath she might be to undermine Obama directly). Refuse to take money from the big banks and other Wall Street interests. (Her advisors keep saying she's just as liberal as Elizabeth Warren, but the banks are only donating to one of those. ...)

And finally, keep repeating, at every turn possible, "I agree with Bernie." None of the issues he supports are unpopular with the broader electorate, so she runs no electoral risk in doing so. And if she does that, she won't alienate the Sanders constituency and can take a unified and motivated base into the general.

We as liberals need to understand that Clinton's current campaign trajectory means we've won the war for our party's soul. When the party's standard-bearer is running an explicitly liberal campaign, it means that the establishment has realized that national victory runs through the issues we care about. Be happy!

...more at link

[daleanime]

1. Oh, I expect to hear good things from Hillary.....

I just don't think I'll be believing them.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. It's easy to co-opt someone else's message

It's quite another to sincerely embrace it.

[MFrohike]

2. There's one thing she could do

If she did this one thing, it would go a long, long way for her. She has to disavow the Rubinites. No more Bob Rubin, no more Larry Summers, no more friends of finance. It wouldn't answer every question about her, but it'd be a pretty clear line in the sand as to where she stands on the increasing dominance of finance in our country.

[pipoman]

3. Lol...make her look like a corporatist?

[Thinkingabout]

4. I don't see where the "frightened" comes, if Hillary was at 13% in the polls and Bernie was over 50%

I may be frightened.

[Pauldg47]

7. Guess you haven't seen today's new poll!!