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Originally posted by bleuwaffle
Hillary was taking cheap shots against Bernie by pointing out times he's disagreed with Obama. I don't see the problem with him disagreeing with him... I mean, does she really expect for someone to support every decision the President makes blindly out of party loyalty? 
At this point Hillary is painting herself as the continuation of the Obama administration which is obviously better than having a Republican in the White House but won't bring about any substantive change.  And the overwhelming support Bernie has been consistently gaining proves that millennials especially are sick of settling for whatever the rich give you and want to take matters into their own hands. Only time will tell though.
Be objective with your criticism. They're politicians, not pop stars. |
I like Bernie but he has not been getting overwhelming support. He is massively down in the Primary votes cast and the delegates won compared to Hillary. No-one has ever come back from such a delegate deficit to win. Obama's race against Hillary is regarded as a great late comeback race, but his deficit was a third of Sanders' deficit.
The race for the Democratic nomination is not close. At all. Anyone claiming it is, simply lacks the knowledge about past elections and how these nomination races go. The only big state (in terms of delegates) remaining that Sanders will probably win is Indiana. Clinton is expected to win New York, Maryland, California, Pennsylvania. Even if she doesn't win all 4, Sanders can only win if he wins big in all 4 of these big States. I think Clinton is gonna win big in New York, Maryland, Penn. I think she will win California too but more narrowly. Clinton will probably win New Jersey too by a big margin. I think it will all be over by then though.
For Sanders to still have a shot he would have had to be ahead or close to Clinton in the delgates race at this point. He is still really far behind to the point where I cannot envisage him making up the ground. If a political campaign is like a long-distance race, then Bernie has effectively already been lapped by Hillary.
And that is just talking about the delegates race and ignoring the vast numbers of superdelegates who have pledged for Hillary so far. Sanders would have to have the biggest comeback ever by some distance to pull out a win here. That seems unlikely to me.
