If Michigan, a large mid western state, goes for Clinton what will the explanations/excuses be?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Thank you in advance.

[mmonk]

1. No excuses other than she is backed by the party

and Bernie is not. Grassroots campaigns are much more difficult, especially in getting your message out. I do know the party's smear against Bernie was effective in the southern campaign.

[beachbum bob]

2. the party doesn't vote....people do and she is backed by the people

believe or not....

[mmonk]

5. So people are not affected by spin or identity politics?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. It has been my experience that those who oppose "identity politics"...

It has been my experience that those who oppose "identity politics" are okay with folks "identifying" themselves as long as they "identify" with them.

[mmonk]

14. I go on policy and facts as I discern them as well as

life experiences. I also go where I see truth and compassion.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I keep it simple and let the people doing the identifying identify themselves./nt

[NowSam]

12. Super duper delegates.

Take them out of the equation and your comment will have some validity.

[lastone]

33. How's that logic working for you today?

Seems hollow don't it...

[NurseJackie]

3. Whatever explanation or excuse is offered, I'm sure it will be a poor one. But ...

... maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. We'll have to just wait and see if they exceed my admittedly low expectations.

[MineralMan]

4. Low-information voters, natch...

Yeah, that's the ticket...

[artyteacher]

6. votes were stolen and hidden on the moon landing set...

In area 51?

[firebrand80]

7. She cheated nt

[Human101948]

8. What does the Michigan basketball team have to do with this?

Are they all voting for Hillary?

[SidDithers]

19. Only 4 of them...

Bernie gets about 20% of the AA vote.

Sid

[Human101948]

23. Did you do a survey? Have a source?

I'm talking about that basketball team.

Or is that your usual BS? (And I don't mean Bernie Sanders.)

On edit: I did a bit of research--

African Americans support former Secretary of State Clinton by more than a 3-to-1 margin nationwide, but among young blacks 18 to 29 years old, that margin shrinks to 46 percent for Clinton versus 33 percent for Sanders, according to recent Reuters/Ipsos polling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-blacks-idUSMTZSAPEC2CG4VQ3S

So your supposition about the team is shaky to say the least.

[Gamecock Lefty]

9. The party’s smear against Bernie was effective in the South? Really?

Well why the hell didn’t that so-called smear work in Maine and Nebraska? Newsflash – because there wasn’t one!

And now that Hillary is beginning to establish her dominance BS supporters are crying “grassroots campaigns are really hard and getting your message out is difficult.” When we actually heard just the opposite months ago!

Fact is people in the Democratic Party like Hillary better than Bernie. Some of us like Bernie OK, but we really like Hillary as is shown by her strong numbers within OUR party. Is Hillary a perfect candidate? No, but no one is, not even the ‘beloved’ Bernie. Bernie simply picked a bad year to change his political affiliation to Democrat when so many of us are backing Hillary.

If Bernie had stayed Independent his supporters could have crowned him King and run as a third party.

[Armstead]

11. The ConservaDem Political Machine is very efficient

But does not do honesty very well

[Nye Bevan]

13. Hillary unfairly brought up Bernie's vote against the auto bailout? (nt)

[Armstead]

18. Misrepresented it

[daleanime]

27. Now let's be honest....

she lied about it.

[randome]

15. Gremlins.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[SidDithers]

20. ...

Sid

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Res ipsa loquitur

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_democratic_presidential_primary-5224.html


http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-michigan-presidential-democratic-primary


http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-forecast/michigan-democratic/

[whatchamacallit]

22. What are the excuses for Hillary's losses?

... Oh right, some divisive identity politics vomit.

[Attorney in Texas]

24. You're welcome in retrospect.

[morningfog]

25. MOOT POINT!!!!!

[m-lekktor]

26. lol. nt

[tularetom]

28. LOL

[Blus4u]

29. I only heard excuses from Hillary's campaign.

And that was that "they had misread the electorate" in Michigan.

Peace

[Jarqui]

30. We've seen her blow 20, 30, even 55 pt leads over

a month or more.

but she blew a 21.4 pt lead in a day !!

.. a 23-24 pt swing.

That's wild. A major choke.

One question some folks might ask themselves:
if Bernie can do that to her, what can the GOP do to a candidate like that?

[leveymg]

31. What's your excuse for continuing with this sort of racially divisive meme building?

Fail. She's failing. The guilt-trip approach doesn't work for her anymore.

[FlatBaroque]

32. Comedy Gold.

Thank you. You give me more laughs than almost anyone else here.

[Bluenorthwest]

34. In the cold light of this morning, this OP and some of the comments seem exploitative and assumptive

Good Morning!!!!!