Politico: Biden can finish Bernie off in Michigan

[honest.abe]

It was Michigan where Sanders engineered a primary day miracle four years ago, upsetting Hillary Clinton and imprinting his populist agenda on the industrial Midwest.

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Even before Sanders’ woebegone Tuesday — marked by losses to Joe Biden throughout the South and in Massachusetts and Minnesota — a Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll put Biden ahead of Sanders by nearly 7 percentage points in Michigan. Of voters who had already cast absentee ballots, the outlook was bleaker, with Sanders running behind Biden by nearly 20 percentage points.

And that was before Super Tuesday laid bare the full force of the momentum Biden drew from winning South Carolina, prompting moderate Democrats to coalesce around him and persuading many undecided voters to break his way.

“This thing could be over for all intents and purposes in three weeks,” said Paul Maslin, a top Democratic pollster who worked on the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Howard Dean. “It’s done unless Joe makes some horrible mistake. He will win blacks 75-25 minimum from here on in. He doesn’t have Hillary’s negatives. And people want to beat Trump big time. This race is over.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-michigan-121160

Bernie's last gasp to win Michigan is likely to fail. I think he loses by 10+ points. If so it's over.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Possibly... also possible Bernie can finish off Biden in Michigan!! Let's do it!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[honest.abe]

4. I like your enthusiasm.

[NurseJackie]

8. He won't. This is over. (And even if he did... it's just delaying the inevitable.)

He won't. This is over. (And even if he did... it's just delaying the inevitable.) Bernie's quest to become our country's first Socialist president is a lost cause. It always has been. He knows it. His staff knows it. I know it. And I think even you know it, too. (And I'm sure that Jane Sanders is secretly thrilled that she can return to a normal life in one of her three houses... probably the cozy one with the view of the water.) Anyway, all I'm trying to say is that it's time to jump on the Biden Bandwagon. I'm looking forward to your enthusiastic support.



Joe/Kamala or Biden/Harris 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together and can't be bought!!
Jump on the Joe Bandwagon!!



C'MON! GET IN! We're taking back America!

[squirecam]

9. I like Harris for AG instead

Nt

[NurseJackie]

11. That's a strong possibility too.

[George II]

16. Bazinga!

There's a version of that convertible with Harris in the passenger seat grinning from ear to ear.

[NYMinute]

14. ...

Joe/Kamala or Biden/Harris 2020!!
Jump on the Biden Bandwagon & abandon the revolution!!

[NurseJackie]

15. Haaaaaa!

[George II]

17. MineralMan posted this one just a few minutes ago:

[honest.abe]

20. Is that an actually bandwagon!

[George II]

21. Yes indeed. Love it!

[honest.abe]

22. Cool!

[Gothmog]

34. LOL

[ehrnst]

18. You'll be OK when he doesn't do any better there than he did on Super Tuesday.

Chin up!

[democrattotheend]

24. I don't think he could finish him off, but he could grab some momentum back

If I recall that's what happened in 2016. Ultimately he still fell short but his shock win in Michigan kept him in the game for a while.

[Demsrule86]

25. Biden doesn't need Michigan...if not Michigan than Florida.

[griffi94]

30. I think Joe wins both.

Bernie's not going to get much of a bump from Warren dropping out.
The game has changed. Bernie will keep his fiercest, never say die supporters.
Everybody else is lining up behind Joe.

[Demsrule86]

32. I agree...I just meant it is do or die for Sanders but not Biden in Michigan.

[griffi94]

33. I think the sun is setting on Bernie's campaign.

Nothing he can do is going bring it back.
The voters emphatically rejected him. I'm sure you've noticed
that a lot of Warrens supporters won't support Bernie in the primary.

[empedocles]

2. Done as a practical matter. Afraid BS's character is to hurt Dems to the end.

[Thekaspervote]

3. This!

[emmaverybo]

5. Yes. He can damage Dems, but he will be forever marginalized, his legacy one of failed

promises.

[honest.abe]

6. Im afraid you may be correct.

He views the Democratic party as the enemy almost as much as the Republicans. I really wish he had not run this year. I think he and his hard core supporters are going to cause trouble even if Biden racks up a majority delegate count.

[ehrnst]

19. Yes. I believe you are correct. (nt)

[helpisontheway]

7. People on Twitter are upset

Sanders was supposed to campaign in Jackson,MS. He cancelled to go to Michigan instead. They said he is giving up on the black vote and gonna focus on the angry white ones. Then some people said let’s finish him in Michigan. 😮 Maybe he plans to go through Michigan with his buddy Michael Moore.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. I have a PROBLEM with Bernie now because.....

He wants the Democratic Party nomination and be it's standard bearer without the benifits of membership in the party.

In Union circles, when workers want al the benefits without joining said Union, that is known as a FREELOADER.

[Thekaspervote]

13. Yup!!

[OhZone]

12. Yes we can !

[democrattotheend]

23. Let's see what happens

It wouldn't be the first time a poll underestimated Bernie in Michigan.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

26. Hmmm, lately they've been OVERestimating Bernie...n/t

[democrattotheend]

29. True

But that was mostly in a multi-candidate field that thinned out between the time the poll was taken and Super Tuesday. If I recall he matched or overperformed the polls in Nevada. And the race before that was so fluid with so many candidates that I don't think they were all that accurate for any candidate.

Now that it's a two-person race, let's see what happens. Mathematically it's anyone's game. All of the obituaries for Bernie are based on polls and how he did in certain states last time against a different opponent. If they had used that logic in 2016 Hillary's obituary should have been written around this time, because a lot of the states she beat Bernie in were states she was destroyed in 8 years earlier.

[honest.abe]

27. Looks like somewhat the opposite is happening this time.

Biden has being underestimated and Sanders overestimated... at least just prior to SC and ST.

[LongtimeAZDem]

35. But this part was really bad for him:

"Of voters who had already cast absentee ballots, the outlook was bleaker, with Sanders running behind Biden by nearly 20 percentage points."

[LaurenOlimina]

28. He won't quit though.

[honest.abe]

31. i wish he would.

We would all be better off.

[Gothmog]

37. sanders just cancelled trip to Mississippi to spend more time in Michigan

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

36. Sanders is cancelling his scheduled speech in Jackson, Mississippi

sanders is abandoning Mississippi to campaign in Michigan

Link to tweet