Gee...looks like the Sanders campaign is "nervous" as well...

[brooklynite]

Just got this email from the Sanders campaign:

We could come up just short

Brothers and Sisters,

Can you imagine how you'll feel on the night of the Iowa caucuses if it turns out Bernie comes up just short? After all we’ve accomplished together against impossible odds … it'd be devastating.

With your support Bernie has brought us within striking distance of winning. But the new NBC poll released just this morning shows we still have critical ground to make up in Iowa.

Now, I suppose this could just be hype to encourage contributions, but apparently the Sanders campaign doesn't resort to cheap political tactics?

[awake]

1. Bernie has nervers of steal his campaign is not nervous it is smart

keeping up the pressure and not "counting the chickens till they hatch"

[MrWendel]

9. Hmmm....

[Katashi_itto]

15. Cool story bro

[Ali-96]

20. Bernie will win

His campaign has been run excellently and he has a passionate ever-expanding voter base. GO BERNIE

[roguevalley]

34. here's why I don't give a damn if he is or not. Bernie doesn't have

zillionaires to placate nor does he have low enthusiasm among his team or followers. Clinton should be nervous because she expected a cake walk and got this instead. She should be nervous. I think the sanders people are expectant.

[Bjorn Against]

2. Of course they are, both campaigns have plenty of reason to be nervous

It is far from clear who is going to win, neither campaign is inevitable and they can't take anything for granted. We have a much tighter election than many realize and both sides have plenty of reasons to be nervous.

[tecelote]

23. Exactly.

Bernie has always been nervous about his odds and never called himself "Inevitable". He knew it was an uphill battle.

Being at the top now, he must be psyched. Nothing is inevitable anymore.

[Betty Karlson]

35. Iowa and NH are must-wins for Sanders. Clinton can still afford to lose them.

So if Sanders' campaign is a little nervous, I can understand: so are 99% of us!

[Hiraeth]

3. I like how you put nervous in quotes. sorta negates the meaning, doncha know.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Don't look at me for money, Bernie.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Thats okay, hes getting all the money I would otherwise be giving to the DNC

If it wasnt being chaired by someone who advocates putting sick people in prison for using marijuana.

[Dawson Leery]

19. And Bernie's campaign is hurting other Democrats running for congress

as all of that money is being funneled to him alone.

[Cassiopeia]

25. It's Debbie's campaign against Bernie that is hurting other Dems.

But, that's what she does and she does it well. Republicans absolutely love the work she has done for them.

[wolfie001]

30. ^^^ THIS!!!! ^^^ nt

[NorthCarolina]

27. Gotta start somewhere.

Bernie is a hellofa good starting point.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Sorry. As long as the DNC is chaired by someone who unapologetically votes to send

Sick people to prison for using cannabis, they dont get a dime from me.

Fortunately my state Democratic party is unequivocally pro-legalization, so I will gladly support them.

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. Maybe I should make my next donation will be in your name...

You could be listed as a Bernie Sanders donor!

I'd do that for you.

[Lint Head]

5. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Armstead]

12. That's very distirbing, but I can't stop looking at it

[Android3.14]

6. Hahaha! Much better to be "nervous" than resigned

Sanders knows he has a serious shot at this, and (here's the kicker)
you know it too.

[Progressive dog]

7. Got the same email

Bernie has spent his whole life in politics. He raised $7.23 million between 2007 and 2012 and spent only $3.25 million towards the 2012 election. He knows how to get contributions.

[Sheepshank]

10. A lifetime in politics, but isn't politician or establishment

What a strange ironic use of words from Bernie supporters.

[Progressive dog]

11. It's even stranger that a politician, who

has not been a Democrat for his entire long career in politics, gets so many professed Democrats to support him.

[Armstead]

14. You do understand that "politician" is a generic word, I assume

It's like temperature. There's hot, cold, lukewarm, etc.

Bernie, Hillary, Jeb, Hatch, McCain, Brown, John Lewis...etc. etc,. etc. are all politicians.

What matters is the descriptors.

[Progressive dog]

18. Politician is a descriptive word,

and Bernie is one.

[Armstead]

13. Hell, that's just a variation of the same old stuiff that comes from everybody

My Inbox would be a scary place if I took as gospel all the predictions of dire consequences if I don't vote a certain way, send money to this cause or candidate, sign this petition....etc.

I'm sure Sanders campaign is nervous. It's a tightening race.

[LWolf]

16. I had to go to my inbox

to read that whole message. It didn't seem "nervous" to me; it seemed like a fairly standard request for a donation. It would be shocking if Sanders' campaign weren't asking, since it depends on small individual donations.

The email also said:

By all accounts, Hillary Clinton has dramatically ramped up her fundraising since we announced our record-breaking number of small-dollar, individual contributions. Earlier this week, the Clinton campaign raised almost two million dollars in one day from just three events with millionaires!

But our campaign is funded by emails like these. That’s why your contribution today is so important.

I'm surprised that you'd be getting any emails from the Sanders campaign, since I didn't think you were a supporter. You are welcome to donate to Bernie, of course, if you are worried about the campaign.

[leftofcool]

17. I got one of those too. Now, how did he get my email?

[thesquanderer]

21. Sanders was the underdog from the start

Hillary was expected to win everything.

So they have opposite perspectives.

For Bernie to suggest that Hillary may win is an obvious truth.

For Hillary to suggest that Bernie may win means either she really thinks she may lose, or she's just using it as a tactic to bring in more contributions, take your choice.

[shenmue]

22. Being behind in 48 states is hard

[HubertHeaver]

36. It was behind in 50 states.

We're getting down to brass tacks now.

[Ed Suspicious]

26. We've been underdogs since day one. This is stupid.

[marble falls]

28. Best you can do? meh.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. Hmm ... just how did the Sanders

campaign get your email address?

There must be some DNC conspiracy.

[Kalidurga]

31. There is a big difference between playing catch up with the leader in the polls

and being the leader in the polls and looking over your shoulder when you should be leaving everyone in the dust, but aren't.

[jeff47]

32. How odd that the underdog is behaving like an underdog.

[joshcryer]

37. The Sanders campaign knows that IA and NH are make or break.

They can't gain the momentum to win NV without both states, and SC is not happening. I see nothing wrong with this and it is in line with the true expectations of the campaign (and not the wide eyed aspirations of some supporters).