‘A capacity to move voters’: can California be Sanders’ golden state?

[leftcoastmountains]

After Hillary Clinton won the New York Democratic primary in April, her surrogates began relaying the message: game over, Bernie Sanders. Time to go home. It is mathematically impossible to win the nomination.
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Technically, they were right. The rivals may be separated by only 270 pledged delegates, a large but not insurmountable gap, but that figure does not take into account the superdelegates who do not owe allegiance to any vote and almost all of whom – 571 – are already pledged to Clinton.

Nobody appears to have told Sanders. The Vermont senator has set a punishing pace in California: in the last week alone he addressed crowds in National City, Vista, Irvine, Santa Monica, Anaheim, East Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Cathedral City, Lancaster, Ventura, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Pomona, Bakersfield, Fresno and Visalia.

Sanders has outspent Clinton on advertising and his ground game is strong; he has more than 55,000 volunteers in the state who have made more than two million phone calls, according to the campaign.

His rallies, attended by tens of thousands, sometimes more, certainly don’t feel like those of a losing candidate.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/29/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-california-democratic-primary

[libdem4life]

1. It could be that he truly believes he has a purpose

and a mission. And his sole purpose is not just to be the president. He is a true leader and doesn't quit when the going gets rough.

I fully expect his role to remain the Leader of liberals/progressives even after all is said and done.

[lmbradford]

2. K & R