Hillary led Sanders by 309 delegates by this time in 2016.

[LiberalFighter]

But Ohio had their primary on 3/15. And there are a few states that voted later back in 2016.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

1. Different primary schedule then

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Definite squelch of convo

[thesquanderer]

23. also different number of delegates needed, and the super delgate variable n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Is Biden leading by more than 309?

[frazzled]

5. He's leading by 286 right now

and all the votes from tonight have not been counted. (E.g., Illinois mail-in ballots just had to be postmarked by today, so will trickle in some; Arizona is only 6% counted).

[Demsrule86]

8. His lead going to be over 300..it is over.

[TwilightZone]

4. And he never got much closer.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

Many of the states he won after 3/15 have since switched to primaries from caucuses.

Biden is also projected to win nearly every state left. Clinton wasn't.

[NCProgressive]

6. It's not just the math but the map

The map is different this time and there is not a single state where Bernie can win let alone win big enough to catch up.

[Vivienne235729]

19. Very true! It's about the map just as much as rhe math.

[relayerbob]

7. And won

[Skittles]

9. Bernie was never going to be president

not last time, not this time

and HE KNOWS IT

[Thekaspervote]

10. Thank heavens! We don't need a revolution we need a leader!

[Stallion]

13. Mr. 32%-and that's being kind

Should 98% of Democratic candidate be forced to run on a ticket they want to avoid like the plaque

[Cha]

18. Amen & Hallelujah!

[LizBeth]

11. At this point in 2016 Sanders lost. But refused to step out and back our Democrat. At this point,

Sanders has lost and once again the voters gave a clear message. it is time. DropOutBernie

[BidenBacker]

12. The 2016 race was one-on-one almost from the get-go

O'Malley who I kinda liked was in it for like 10 minutes.

[Hortensis]

14. Sigh for O'Malley. I like him also. A lot. He came across

very well in one-on-one interviews, but he just didn't own the stage. I've always felt we should make them campaign with bags over their heads. Or ours.

As for Sanders, remember that experts saw no real path for him from the beginning, something the political MSM mostly kept hidden. Of course, they didn't know in the early months that Russia was working to put Trump in office and as part of that providing critical lift to the Sanders campaign. So it didn't crash and burn shortly after takeoff, but Hillary shifted anyway o running against Trump pretty early.

[BidenBacker]

15. Good point

Didn't help that there was a dearth of candidates that year. Gotta be a decent compromise between 2 and 2 dozen.

[Hortensis]

17. :) Actually, poor rigged-against Sanders never mentions it, but

we had 14 initial candidates. That I know of. Nine Democrats were cut out in order to rig, to use I-Sanders' own terminology, FOR him and four others. As I recall, one for sure was a flake, but they included real candidates who had real supporters at home and met the qualifications.

So 5 -- representing a broad range between Jim Webb representing white male Democrats victimized by too much equality on the blue-dog side and Sanders battling to save America from Democrats on the far left -- may be too few or.... And over two dozen are ridiculous. One thing I feel sure of, we have to get control by decent compromise before Newt decides to use our next primary to sell fake cancer cures on our debate stages.

[BidenBacker]

20. Wow

I sure didn't remember that many being in...thanks for the mini-history lesson.

Pretty sure only 3 made it to Iowa and after that O'Malley was gone. One-and-done and down to only 2 with 49 states left to go doesn't seem quite right to me.

Maybe Boehner can join Newt on stage and peddle his pot company a little? Marijuana stocks taking a beating as I knew they would since they were the modern equivalent of the dot-coms of the late 90s. Poor John sitting on a pile of worthless MJ stock options if he hasn't already cashed them all in.

[BidenBacker]

22. Sure do miss ol' Beagle Eyes

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/john-boehner-stands-to-make-millions-off-marijuana.html

Check out the chart of his pot company and click on "All"...

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/acrgf

Started off over $24 a share and now down to a buck and change. Kinda looks like the stock market under Dubya.

Oh, well...another GOP whore did well for himself and that's the main thing.

[BidenBacker]

16. You snuck an edit in on me...LOL

O'Malley had the exact same problem in 2016 that Biden had in 2008. 2 candidates pretty much sucked all the oxygen outta the room early and he never had much chance and didn't last very long. Wish folks had given him a much closer look.

[Hortensis]

21. Oh, sorry. I have a habit of uploading before finishing

my thoughts. Impatient fingers.

Agree entirely. The short game's who can grab the most attention first. He did manage to be one of the top three because of his sheer excellence, but he was on his way home before people finally got that closer look.

Off to bed. Again.