Bernie lost African Americans, Hispanics, and women yesterday by wide margins

[Cali_Democrat]

Women and minorities are the base of the Democratic Party.

Do we really want to nominate a candidate who can't appeal to the base of the Democratic Party?

This is why nominating Bernie makes very little sense.

[revbones]

1. Good thing the total votes are up for Hillary everywhere!

Oh wait...

[WDIM]

2. Bernie has done in 8 months what nobody thought was possible.

As his message grows so does his following.

[beachbum bob]

5. yesterday's results seem to be at odds with this my friend

I saw greater margins of popular vote for hillary..

[WDIM]

8. Bernie has gone from single digits not a chance in the world

To out right winning. He may be behind now but there is still a long way to go.

And a Democratic Socialist from Vermont winning in the dark red state of Oklahoma speaks volumes to me on the mood of the electorate.

[salinsky]

3. Perhaps, ...

... but the GOP's African American, Hispanic, and Women Outreach Programs haven't exactly been firing on all cylinders.

I think all of those groups will overwhelmingly stay with the Democratic Party come Fall.

[KingFlorez]

6. No one can become the Democratic nominee with those numbers

So it really doesn't look like Sanders even has a chance at actually being nominated.

[Vinca]

7. Hillary has more than 2 decades of being in the public eye on a national scale.

Bernie has more than 2 decades on a statewide scale. Did you see the margin in Vermont for Bernie? He's the most popular Vermont senator since the Vietnam war era when GOP Sen. George Aiken said "declare victory and get out." Once voters know Bernie, they feel very much like Vermonters have felt for years. All I can say to people who don't vote for Bernie is "your loss."

[Keithmanek]

9. Seriously

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The more people hear Bernie the more they like him, the opposite can be said for Hilary. Bernie lost women and minorities in the red states. He is winning in the blue states. He is also winning the young vote by yuuuuuuuuuuge margins. He is energizing the millennial generation which is by the way a necessity if we want to win in November and a necessity if we want to take back Congress. I was a Bernie captain at my caucus in Colorado last night, all I heard from the Hilary supporters is "no we can't". No we can't have universal healthcare. No we can't have tuition free college. No we can't win back congress. No we can't get anything passed that Bernie is proposing. Obama won a landslide election in 2008 by saying "yes we can" we should be saying the same now. If Hilary wants to run on a third term for Obama maybe she should take his 2008 campaign slogan. You don't energize people by saying NO WE CANT!!

[Jitter65]

10. I wonder why? nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

11. I suspect that he lost them because he never had them.

His 99% argument sounds good, but its basic premise is that the only real difference that matters is the money wall between the 99% and the 1%. Sadly, that is not the case.

Clinton has spent decades developing relationships with diverse communities.

Sanders has not done that.