Bernie Sanders Gets a Rude Awakening

[George II]

Super Tuesday’s clearest message: While the senator has inspired a passionate depth of support, the breadth of his coalition remains too limited to win the nomination.

Bernie Sanders’s self-proclaimed “political revolution” crashed into a wall of resistance inside the Democratic Party last night.

After a remarkable 72 hours that saw top party leaders consolidate behind Joe Biden, a panoramic array of key party voting groups coalesced around the former vice president—and against Sanders—in the coast-to-coast competition, according to exit polls conducted in almost all the states that voted. Biden captured at least nine of the 14 states voting, including some—such as Minnesota and Oklahoma—where Sanders won big in 2016.

The surprisingly decisive result left Sanders, a candidate who prides himself on his pile-driver-like consistency, facing a new challenge: finding a second act that can appeal to voters beyond the fervid base he has established. The evening’s clearest message was that while the senator from Vermont has inspired a passionate depth of support, the breadth of his coalition remains too limited to win the nomination.

Sanders reached 33 percent or more of the vote in just five of the 14 states that voted (including his home state of Vermont) and did not exceed 36 percent, his share in Colorado. Biden had a higher ceiling: He won at least 39 percent in seven states and roughly a third of the vote in three others. Stanley B. Greenberg, a veteran Democratic pollster, argued that Super Tuesday’s results establish Biden as the clear front-runner for the nomination at the convention in July.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/joe-bidens-super-tuesday-wins-against-bernie-sanders/607429/

[samnsara]

1. a real 'political revolution' would have had two women at the top of the ticket...

[delisen]

3. Exactly! Patriarchal progressiveism is not progress

And not proressive

[getagrip_already]

2. the talkin heads kept repeating last night that

Biden had a low floor but a high ceiling. They also said bernie had a high floor but a low ceiling.

Bernie can't break through that ceiling, and in a 2 person race it's over for him.

Which is good, because he will never have a higher ceiling in a general election. He just isn't liked outside the dem party.

[Skidmore]

4. Sanders appears

to capture a similar sized slice of voters as does Trump. People won't let that happen twice.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. "fervid" voters actually show up and vote

no free beer, no votes.

[abqtommy]

6. As an Undecided I've enjoyed listening to/reading all the info about candidates and everything

that goes with that. Mostly. Now as the dust begins to settle I see that the way is clearing for me to finally support a candidate. I'll do that sometime between now and April 2, the day of our primary here in Albuquerque.

disclaimer: I don't like the stress that comes to me with our usual primary to-do. It's bad enough to have to put up with the daily dose of tRUMP this and tRUMP that but at least I think that's a worthy battle.
Lets take it to him in a big way...

[NCProgressive]

7. No one wants a revolution

It is just a machiavellian slogan to make the small movement appear more fierce than it actually is.