Why the Democratic primary contest is all but over

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the more effective arguments that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made during his bid for the Democratic nomination in 2016 was that he, unlike Hillary Clinton, could win over working-class Midwesterners that the party would need in November. It seems more effective after the fact, certainly, given how the election turned out, but that, coupled with Sanders’s ability to hang in the fight by winning contests (often caucuses), even after Clinton had things wrapped up, gave him a useful way to defend hanging around.

This year, particularly after Tuesday’s results, his case is far shakier.

Consider, for example, the map of contests after the Nevada caucuses.



That blue represents counties won by former vice president Joe Biden — the vast majority of them, particularly east of the western edge of the Gulf Coast. Not only has Biden won state after state since his stunning victory in South Carolina, but he has often won every county in each state. Even big states such as Florida and Michigan went for Biden across the board, removing any ability of Sanders to claim that he could better appeal to rural or suburban voters.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/why-the-democratic-primary-contest-is-all-but-over/ar-BB11nnAb?li=BBnb7Kz

[relayerbob]

1. Bear in mind the CA map

Would've looked very different if early voting hadn't given so much to Bloomberg, Warren, Pete and Amy

[The Magistrate]

2. That Was Always A Sham

Had Sanders not made this second sally, he could have maintained that his views had considerable support among 'working class white men', as demonstrated by their votes in 2016. By going once too often to the well, Sanders has shown that in fact, his voting strength in 2016 among 'working class white men' owed not to support for his policies, and those men's openness if properly inspired to revolutionary change in a left direction, but rather to a long rightist reactionary campaign of hatred for Mrs. Clinton which he chanced along to be a beneficiary of, and of retrograde attitudes towards 'uppity women' in that demographic which this campaign fed on. Sanders might have had a legacy as a real contender for radical views. It would not have been an honest one, but it would have looked swell on video and in print.

[NCProgressive]

3. Sir, you have put it very succinctly and cogently