as of the registration deadline May 23--MOST OF THEM young voters, MOST OF THEM Democratic registrations. Those are blowout numbers!
Yes, there was a complete blackout for many months, and, at the end of it, when the Corrupt Media couldn't ignore his victories any more, they started the "Big Lie" that it was "over."
Truly insidious--as have been the dirty tricks, voter purges and other tactics of the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
HOWEVER,
1) The superdelegates do NOT "belong" to Hillary Clinton. That is not their function. Their function is to insure that the Democratic convention chooses the best candidate to win the GE and to have "coattails" for the downticket races;
2) Sanders consistently demolishes Trump in all polls, and has been doing so since January; Clinton is now losing to Trump in the polls!; Sanders has very high trustworthy and favorability numbers; Clinton has very low trustworthy and favorability numbers, almost as low as Trump's; Sanders does very well among Independent voters (as essential demographic for a Democratic win); Independents loathe Clinton; young voters flock to Sanders in simply amazing numbers; Clinton's support is a rather narrow base of traditional Democrats.
3) Sanders is still fighting, is still displaying immense energy and commitment, is still drawing huge crowds, still has plenty of donations to see him through, and seems to be enjoying himself! What a candidate! He is an attractive personality rather than a put-off-ish, closed-in one, like Clinton's. He loves mixing with people, eats in small diners along the road in his barnstorming campaign up and down the big state of California, talks to people casually, goes for a body-surfing dip in the Pacific; and altogether exudes optimism and grace.
Sanders has very strong arguments to make to the super-delegates and the convention that he is the best candidate to win the GE and provide "coattails" for downticket races. He has almost no negatives. He has always liked a simple life. No amassing of wealth. No scandals. No "baggage." He turns voters ON, rather than off!
And I will say, from my own point of view, that Hillary Clinton is the WORST Democratic presidential candidate imaginable. She got her hooks into the DNC early, and has used her vast wealth, compliments of Wall Street and other malefactors, to impale the support of other Corporate Democratic leaders before Bernie Sanders even entered the race. And, unfortunately, most of our leaders are corporatists, and got suckered in, or bribed in. Clinton has taken Wall Street's largesse and has turned a corrupt system into a hopelessly corrupt one, which has yielded up the WORST candidate, NOT the best one.
But though our Dem leaders are mostly corporatists, they don't like to lose elections. And the more Clinton sinks in the polls against Trump, and loses primaries like Oregon by blowout numbers, and sees Sanders close a 20 point deficit in California over a month's time, to tie her (currently), with all the momentum on his side, and sees no improvement in her trustworthy and favorability numbers, and increasing reason to distrust her (the OIG report, the FBI investigation), and so forth, the more nervous the super-delegates are becoming that they have backed the wrong horse--that they have backed the racing establishment's favorite, War Admiral, against that funny little horse, Seabiscuit, disdained by all!
And we know how that came out!
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