Feel the Math

[Iamaartist]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/feel-the-math/

The Sanders campaign has come much further than almost anyone expected, to the point where Sanders can have a lot of influence on the shape of the race. But with influence comes responsibility, and it’s time to lay out some guidelines for good and bad behavior.

The first thing to say is that it’s still very unlikely that Sanders can win the nomination. Don’t tell me about national polls (and cherry-pick the polls that show your guy getting close); at this point it’s all about delegate counts, where Clinton has a substantial lead with the voting more than half over. The Times’s Upshot has a nice calculator that takes account of what we know about demographic factors – Sanders does well in very white states and in caucuses, not so much elsewhere – and lets you experiment with various overall leads in what remains of the race. To overtake Clinton in pledged delegates, Sanders would need to win by about a 13 point margin from here on in:
So what does that say about appropriate behavior on the part of her rival? Two things, I’d argue.

First, the Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine. Engaging in innuendo suggesting, without evidence, that Clinton is corrupt is, at this point, basically campaigning on behalf of the RNC. If Sanders really believes, as he says, that it’s all-important to keep the White House out of Republican hands, he should stop all that – and tell his staff to stop it too.

[Her Sister]

1. Haha! Perfect!

Oh, and the Sanders campaign is saying that it will try to flip superdelegates even if it loses the unpledged delegates and the popular vote.

Remember when evil Hillary was going to use superdelegates to steal the nomination? Double standards aside, what makes the campaign think that he will get any backing from a party he refuses to lift a finger to help?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/feel-the-math/

[Iamaartist]

2. Right on......

[Her Sister]

4. wow! perfect tooooooo

First, the Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine. Engaging in innuendo suggesting, without evidence, that Clinton is corrupt is, at this point, basically campaigning on behalf of the RNC. If Sanders really believes, as he says, that it’s all-important to keep the White House out of Republican hands, he should stop all that – and tell his staff to stop it too.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/feel-the-math/


We are all thinking and saying the same things!

[SunSeeker]

9. YES! Me too.

[sharp_stick]

3. Under the bus goes Krugman

or has that happened already?

Who will be/was the first to say that he sold out to the corporate masters?

[Iamaartist]

7. Under The Bus

[Lucinda]

5. KNR Thank you!

[cosmicone]

6. The down-market messaging is sleazy politics

I thought Sanders was above that. It was not to be.

[SunSeeker]

8. K & R

[pandr32]

10. Agreed, but he won"t knock it off

...as long as it works for him