Time for Bernie Sanders To Get In Line (Newsweek/Daily Beast)

[big_dog]

Does Super Tuesday change anything on the Democratic side? Bernie Sanders got enough wins, and delegates, to keep at it. So that won’t change—and I want to say clearly that it should not change. But this is what should change: From here on in, Sanders ought to lay off the attacks on Hillary Clinton, the Goldman Sachs speeches and all the rest. Eventually, he’s going to lose. She’s going to win. He can do it in a way that burnishes his standing in the party he’s decided to be a member of and that makes him a pivotally powerful senator during a potential Clinton presidency. Or he can do it in a way that damages her reputation and ultimately his own.
Most of the individual results, for all the hype, don’t really mean that much. Sanders won Vermont. Given. Sanders won Minnesota and Colorado, which are both important states, but they’re weird caucuses. Oklahoma was an interesting win, but the black percentage of the vote is small there compared to Deep South states, and anyway it’s as red as a state gets. Wesley Clark won Oklahoma in 2004.
A number of Clinton’s wins don’t really matter much either, again, because they’re red general election states. Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas; who cares how much she won by? Georgia is a slightly different story, because Georgia is inching its way toward purple-dom, and she can at least make Donald Trump spend money there this fall.

But two Clinton wins matter. First, Massachusetts matters some, because it’s New England. It’s a very different state from Vermont, of course; it’s a machine Democratic state. But it’s one Sanders was really hoping for.
But the big one is Virginia. It’s an indisputably important November state, one that if the Democrat wins, she or he probably will not lose the election. The kind of state where a candidate needs to be able to make the case: “I can carry this state.” And she didn’t merely win Virginia. She just smothered him there, 65 to 35 percent.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/02/time-for-bernie-sanders-to-get-in-line.html

[litlbilly]

1. We are already in Bernie's line, and you and all the meme of the day posters will get in line behind

us. Just the way it's gonna be. Ive seen the get in line, or its over for Bernie all day long and it is getting really old really fast.

[RobertEarl]

7. We are being shown their hate

How dare we stand up to them! How dare Bernie question them and the establishment!

They don't want democracy, they want to appoint their chosen one.

They hate us.

[litlbilly]

10. when I saw the AP call MA for Bernie then they changed to Hillary, something looked wrong

the exit polls had him up by 6 points. I wonder if that will be looked into.

[RobertEarl]

15. It won't be looked at

The AP had called the count for Bernie because AP had their hands on the exit polling.

Well,, the establishment couldn't have any of that and they have their ways of manipulating the counts.

We are on our own. They don't care about fair, they only want it their way. Bernie is the only hope to restore democracy.

[litlbilly]

17. something like they added 109 to the number and added most to Hillary, they ended up with a negative

12 on other. We shall see. Cant let them get away with this stuff

[RobertEarl]

22. I have been fighting the vote corruption for 15 years

Our only hope is massive turnouts like we had with Obama.

The establishment doesn't ever want to see such turnouts again.

[litlbilly]

24. and hopefully eventually get the right people in office to fix it once and for all.

[bobbobbins01]

2. Haha, stay in the race, just stop being mean to Hillary!

They can't honestly believe what they're writing anymore. Its a comedy routine.

[litlbilly]

8. Its just marching orders from what it looks like

[SunSeeker]

3. Yup. His attacks on Hillary will only help the GOP in the GE. It will not get him nominated.

And it is not too much to ask that he keep his promise to not go negative.

[NurseJackie]

6. It will weaken the party and waste money. To continue beyond the point where it's ...

... mathematically obvious he won't be the nominee will tell me that he's in it for himself, for vanity purposes only.

Fortunately, I have more faith in him and I'm sure he'll do the right thing.

[RobertEarl]

9. What?

The turnout numbers are proof the party is going down. The heads of the party are to blame and Hillary owns the heads, so she is to blame for the lousy turnout.

[islandmkl]

16. Bernie can just use the 2008 timeline for guidance...

why would anyone have a problem with letting all the states vote?

[Indepatriot]

4. Please!!! Stop smearing Hillary by factually accounting her record...

[UglyGreed]

5. I'll just leave these here......

http://iac.com/about/leadership/board-directors/chelsea-clinton

http://iac.com/brand/daily-beast

[noamnety]

18. Chelsea Clinton says to stop picking on her mom!

leave hillary alone!

Stay in the campaign but at your speeches talk about how nice my mom is!

[UglyGreed]

20. Or Marc will

get his Hedge fund buddies and kick you butt!!!!!

[Old Codger]

11. Gonan put this "big dog" in a line

With that avatar you need to go straight to ignore and stay there

[SamKnause]

13. I have already fallen in line.

I am right behind Bernie.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Damn right. Me too. n/t

[jfern]

14. I am in line behind the candidate who polls best in the general election

Bernie!

[grntuscarora]

21. "He can do it in a way that burnishes his standing in the party."

Good god. This author has NO idea what Bernie is about. To this opinion writer, it has to be all about advancing status, career, enhancing establishment credentials, blah,blah,blah. Can't believe someone would actually be standing for something other than his or her own political gain.

Imo, this author really has no clue what Senator Sanders is about, and what he has been about his entire adult life.

[restorefreedom]

23. good luck with that

wait, they are serious?

bwaaahhhh

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