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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders, Party Crasher: Notes On The [Looming] End Of A Campaign [View all]
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/15/481453188/bernie-sanders-party-crasher-notes-on-the-looming-end-of-a-campaignThis is an excellent read.
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Sanders' experience in Southern California offers glimpses into everything that went right and wrong for his campaign. In more ways than one, at Lynwood and in Santa Monica and all throughout the primary season, Sanders was a party crasher. Sometimes that worked out for him. And sometimes it did not.
This week marked the final presidential nominating contest for the Democratic Party, in Washington, D.C. Bernie Sanders lost. And he isn't throwing in the towel just yet, he says. But Sanders also says he can do "arithmetic." And that math shows he did not get enough votes or delegates to be the Democratic nominee. (He trails Clinton by millions in the Democratic popular vote, and hundreds in party's delegate count, with or without superdelegates.) Hillary Clinton was declared the "presumptive nominee" last week, and she is now campaigning as one would expect a presumptive party nominee to campaign, complete with the endorsement of a sitting President. It'd be fair to say that the only thing keeping Bernie Sanders' campaign alive is that he hasn't yet said it is dead.
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In many ways, the Sanders campaign was a love revolution, with a message of unity, diversity and prosperity for all. But under the surface, the Sanders' movement was just as much an exercise in anger.
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It was a moment that, in several ways, could symbolize Sanders' entire campaign a victory and a defeat, all at the same time. And, in spite of it all, a dogged determination to keep pressing ahead and to seemingly never, ever admit you've lost.
Sanders' experience in Southern California offers glimpses into everything that went right and wrong for his campaign. In more ways than one, at Lynwood and in Santa Monica and all throughout the primary season, Sanders was a party crasher. Sometimes that worked out for him. And sometimes it did not.
This week marked the final presidential nominating contest for the Democratic Party, in Washington, D.C. Bernie Sanders lost. And he isn't throwing in the towel just yet, he says. But Sanders also says he can do "arithmetic." And that math shows he did not get enough votes or delegates to be the Democratic nominee. (He trails Clinton by millions in the Democratic popular vote, and hundreds in party's delegate count, with or without superdelegates.) Hillary Clinton was declared the "presumptive nominee" last week, and she is now campaigning as one would expect a presumptive party nominee to campaign, complete with the endorsement of a sitting President. It'd be fair to say that the only thing keeping Bernie Sanders' campaign alive is that he hasn't yet said it is dead.
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In many ways, the Sanders campaign was a love revolution, with a message of unity, diversity and prosperity for all. But under the surface, the Sanders' movement was just as much an exercise in anger.
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It was a moment that, in several ways, could symbolize Sanders' entire campaign a victory and a defeat, all at the same time. And, in spite of it all, a dogged determination to keep pressing ahead and to seemingly never, ever admit you've lost.
LOTS more at the link.
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Bernie Sanders, Party Crasher: Notes On The [Looming] End Of A Campaign [View all]
BlueMTexpat
Jun 2016
OP
His campaign is like owning a boat - like throwing good money down a hole in the water.
tonyt53
Jun 2016
#1
Hahaha! It's tradition in our home to watch Christmas Vacation every Christmas Eve!
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#12
I never knew about that movie. I'll look into it, maybe add it to our Christmas Eve get-together.
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#36
I've seen the movie and I LOVE it! Madam D'Angelo was pretty sexy in that one. lol Her "striptease"
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#46
"The Sanders campaign has direct links to the Occupy Wall Street movement." Yep. I knew this from
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#4
That would also sum up the article. I normally love NPR, but this has all been said before
Native
Jun 2016
#50
Yep. A campaign of ego and arrogance. Thanks but no thanks. I'm a Democrat who actually
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#15
I sure do wonder why that wasn't covered in the U.$. Media. Hm. Had Hillary done anything like that,
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#17
Only a week? Hm. Maybe in the beginning, but they'd bring it up sporadically just in case
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#25
I know.. I wish the m$m would have covered it .. but we saw the report.. BS & DT got much
Cha
Jun 2016
#21
LOVED it! Thanks, Cha. I hadn't seen it before! lol LOVE how our president put in a plug for
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#45
He's down with TPP! I trust President Obama on this.. not burnie sanders.. we now know what
Cha
Jun 2016
#47
I saw that Harvard report, too, Cha! I felt vindicated afterward. Still, the report came out much
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#28
So true! I've had to rely on social media and blogs in order to get the truth. U.$. Media were too
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#34
I actually like the colors - lol. I had the avatar for a week or so now, and I found it befitting
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#38
That could be a BoB fanatic. "Vote Bernie Or Don't Vote". That broken arrow appeared on my ballot
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#35