How Bernie Sanders Can Still Win It All

[Uncle Joe]

How Bernie Sanders Can Still Win It All

Super Tuesday was not the electric showing many fans of Bernie Sanders had hoped for. While some early projections forecast he would win as many as eight out of 14 states and amass a significant lead in pledged delegates, voters delivered a more modest outcome. Mr. Sanders won four states, including delegate-rich California, and ended the night nearly tied with Joe Biden in total pledged delegates. Most worrying for Mr. Sanders’s campaign, the hoped-for youth turnout did not materialize, while Mr. Biden enjoyed the kind of suburban surge that handed Democrats the 2018 midterms.

Still, it isn’t over for Mr. Sanders. Super Tuesday does not reverse his victories in the earlier primaries, and Nevada in particular bodes well for his appeal among Latino voters, who are a key demographic in several undecided states. More than half of the delegates who will determine the outcome of the party’s convention in July are still up for grabs. Mr. Biden’s big night came after an almost panicked flurry of consolidation around him, including dropout endorsements from Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, as well as an assist in Texas from his former primary opponent Beto O’Rourke.

The express purpose of those 11th-hour efforts was to slow Mr. Sanders’s momentum on Super Tuesday, and it worked — but the gambit is exhausted now. Elizabeth Warren, who had an even more dispiriting night, has also dropped out, and many of her supporters seem primed to turn to Mr. Sanders. And the map ahead could prove friendlier to Mr. Sanders, with Biden-friendly Southern states mostly spoken for.

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It’s not such a ridiculous idea. In many countries with economic development comparable to that of the United States, the programs Mr. Sanders has built his candidacy on are mundane facts of life: Universal health care, subsidized child care and guaranteed paid parental leave are all de rigueur in much of Europe, for example. This is what led Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland to remark that life in her country more closely approximates the American dream than America itself does: “We have a very good education system. We have a good health care and social-welfare system that allows anybody to become anything.” In other words, the way of life sought by recipients of the kinds of programs Mr. Sanders proposes isn’t radically different from the way of life many, if not most, Americans aspire to. It’s just easier to actually live it there.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/opinion/bernie-sanders-joe-biden.html

[LaurenOlimina]

1. I'm voting for him Saturday.

I doubt he wins though. I hope you are right.

[William769]

2. I'm glad you still have to power of dreaming.

[NurseJackie]

12. ...

[OKNancy]

3. Elizabeth is a good writer

But her opinions are always from a very left view. Her husband Matt is a Biden-hater. He tweets pretty nasty stuff.
She also re-tweets people who say Biden is senile.

So, I don't value her opinions at all.

[CatMor]

4. She is married to ..

the founder of the left wing think tank Peoples Policy Project.

[OKNancy]

13. Just saw this.. Matt is the writers husband. THis is what we are dealing with

Link to tweet

[NCProgressive]

5. Keep dreaming my friend

Stay happy and healthy.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Stay happy and healthy as well my friend.

[customerserviceguy]

6. If Bernie Sanders

can get young people off of their duffs to go vote, he would get the Nobel Politics Prize (if there were one). The Internet generation has been raised on instant gratification, waiting in line for hours to vote just doesn't appeal to as many of them as it does to my boomer generation.

[Laelth]

8. Sigh. The media is losing their horse race.

The N Y Times is having a sad.



-Laelth

[murielm99]

11. They still have the coronavirus.

And trump could say something stupid at any time.

[tandem5]

9. The math is still there, but

Biden is the assumptive, presumptive nominee and it's going to be damned hard to change that perception of inevitability.

[Sloumeau]

10. Grasping at straws. nt