Feel the Bern South Dakota & North Dakota: Do the Math & Vote for Bernie Sanders

A must-read by SHAUN KING: Superdelegates will decide who wins the Democratic nomination — but not until the convention: 

Wow. This is incredibly interesting. 

In May of 2008, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is currently the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Barack Obama. Even though the campaign was down on delegates, Wasserman Schultz actually said superdelegates should side with Clinton anyway, since she was the stronger candidate come the general election.

She said:

"Senator Clinton won last night. She will win next Tuesday. She will win in Puerto Rico. And the case needs to be made to the superdelegates — who, Governor, at the end of the day, that's who's going to decide this — that Hillary Clinton is the strongest potential nominee in the fall, and that's what we're going to — the case we're going to continue to make."

Well, here we are, eight years later, in May of 2016, and in virtually every single poll about the general election, Bernie Sanders outperforms Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.

Not only that, but Sanders outperforms Clinton with independent voters and young people by huge margins. Both demographics will be key come November.

In other words, it certainly appears that Bernie Sanders, and not Hillary Clinton, is the strongest Democratic candidate for the general election against Trump.

The truth is, again, that superdelegates are likely going to decide who is the Democratic nominee.

Let's do the math:

The nominee needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.

Currently Hillary has 1,768 pledged delegates and Bernie has 1,494 for a difference of 274 delegates.

930 delegates remain.

Hillary Clinton needs 615 pledged delegates to cross the threshold she needs. That's a bit more than 65% of the delegates and she is not predicted to win even one of the remaining states by that margin.

In other words, after the final primaries are held in June, Hillary Clinton will not have won enough delegates to be the nominee.

In many ways, the choice comes down to either the evident reality that Sanders performs better against Trump than Clinton or loyalty to the candidate who is clearly preferred by party insiders.

In response to this line of thinking, Clinton loyalists like to say that she's ahead of Sanders by 3 million votes, but upon closer inspection, that's actually not true at all.

In 12 states where Bernie won, they held caucuses in which individual votes are not tallied in the same way as they are in closed primaries.

For instance, in Washington state, which has nearly 7.1 million people, Bernie won 72.7% of the vote there, but not one single vote is counted toward the numbers where Clinton claims a 3 million vote lead over him.

In Alaska, Bernie won 81% of the vote, but not a single vote is counted toward this tally that the Clinton campaign leans on so heavily. The same is true for Maine. There, Bernie won by 29%, but because all three are caucus states, the vote tallies aren't even included.

This means we really don't know the vote difference between Clinton and Sanders.

The Clinton campaign knows this. Their friends in the media know this, but they continue to allow the campaign to tout that 3 million number even though they know full well that it's not accurate. The Democratic primaries and caucuses simply don't have accurate popular vote totals.

Not only that, but an even bigger lie has been told to the public about superdelegates.

The popular trope among Hillary supporters now is that she earned them because she won certain states or is ahead in the popular vote. That's a complete farce.

There were 359 superdelegates who pledged their vote to Hillary Clinton before even a single vote had been cast. That represents 68% of the superdelegates who have pledged to support her.

They didn't pledge their support to her because she was ahead in the popular vote or because she won Texas and Georgia. They pledged their support to her nearly a year ago. They believed then that she was such a strong candidate that it was a safe bet for them to throw their vote to her.

It's likely that they never imagined that Bernie Sanders would win 21 primaries and caucuses with 9 still remaining. Nobody could've predicted that.

It's likely that they never imagined that Donald Trump would not only become the Republican nominee, but that he would actually resonate with millions of Americans.

So, even as Bernie began to win state after state after state, superdelegates who had already pledged their public loyalty to Clinton no longer supported the actual will of the voters in their own states.

Right now, in spite of the shocking success of Bernie's campaign, 93% of superdelegates who have made their votes clear are backing Clinton. Again, the hype about them supporting Clinton because of the popular vote is a lie.

If 93% of them were supporting Bernie right now in additon to those already in his camp, Bernie would have 2,019 delegates and Hillary would have 1,807.

To say that the presence and intentions of these superdelegates hasn't made a difference is simply disingenuous. They are included in almost every public tally and makes it seem as if Hillary Clinton simply can't be beat.

I've said it before and I'll say it again — Hillary Clinton is going to absolutely struggle against Donald Trump.

It was a mistake for the superdelegates to pledge their support to her before anyone ever voted. It was a mistake to make a former Co-Chair of her campaign the Chair of the DNC. And it would be a mistake for the superdelegates, who don't actually get to make their intentions official until July, to blindly stick with Clinton when the polls show the trouble that's ahead.

Feel the Bern Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, North Dakota, and DC!!

Man! Dude! Session #406

(M)an: Dude! Americans are protesting outside Donald Trump rallies and even blew the fuse in terms of protesting without violence in Albuquerque, New Mexico recently. Things got out of hand and police and protesters clashed. The only effective form of protest right now is for Americans to register to vote and for the remaining primary and caucus states to cast their ballots for Democratic Presidential Contender Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton is a corrupt warmonger who is planning to unify Democrats with such repulsive neocon operatives like the Republican Governors Association and Congressional Republicans who are obstructing the legislative process by making excuses that there is a presidential campaign nearing while totally wrapped up in obstructing world peace by foiling up the foreign policy agenda of Secretary of State John Kerry with their nationalist and sectarian rhetoric at home and abroad. No wonder world leaders are looking at the presidential election this year with such shock and horror.   

(D)ude: Man! Americans do not want to accept responsibility for the dire straits the United States of America has succumbed to as a result of their voting apathy and disinterest. Americans have blown off their right to vote because the United States is not as landlocked as Eurasia and the Afro-asiatic world. We’re landlocked with Canada and Mexico and Donald Trump is wanting to build walls with Mexico to bar political refugees from coming into the country. Illegal immigration’s only solution is to build physical barriers, according to Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Imagine the oppressive and barbaric legislation and how quickly authorization for use of military force will pass through the Republican Congress and onto the desk of either a Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, or Paul Ryan in the Oval Office. The last two Republican presidents, father and son, Bush 41 and Bush 43, received the last three AUMFs from Congress which resulted in the Gulf War in 1991, Gitmo and the War on Terror in 2001, and the Iraq War in 2002.

M: Dude! Why are Republicans in the Executive Branch only allowed AUMFs and not Democrats? Since when has this been the trend?

D: Man! Eisenhower’s Formosa Resolution of 1955, Eisenhower’s Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954 and 1958, and LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 prove something that is made apparent only with an understanding of Richard Nixon as President Eisenhower’s Vice President and Henry Kissinger as President Nixon’s National Security Advisor and the precedents they set into motion, the Cold War panics then that parallel the War on Terror panics of today. We were entrenched with the 24/7 threat of nuclear war then, and now we’re entrenched in global terrorism networks 24/7.

M: Dude! Let me save you some time by telling you that Nixon and Kissinger were and still are responsible for the geopolitical instability in the world and our fruition from nuclear to terrorist threats. You know how Senator John McCain and Representative Michael McCaul visit current conflict zones and then report to the news shows about the insights that they have obtained as a result of their personal trips to the Middle East, when in fact they went to create yet another chaos for John Kerry? Well, that trend of Republicans making excursions on behalf of the United States of America when there is a Democrat in the White House and deliberately messing up the Democratic Administration’s foreign policy dates back to at least the time of President Eisenhower’s Vice President Richard Nixon’s 1953 tour of the Far East, 1957 visit to Africa, 1958 goodwill tour of South America, and 1959 tour of the Soviet Union. Although the Republican Party had the White House during those years I listed, Richard Nixon gathered so much information to which he assigned his personal interpretations about world affairs during his time as Eisenhower’s vice president that he and the Republican Party leadership had the wherewithal to misguide and misinform LBJ regarding Vietnam, just as Henry Kissinger and the Republican Party had the wherewithal to misguide and misinform Jimmy Carter regarding Iran, leading to the hostage crisis that brought forth Republican victory in 1980 and the American presidency for Ronald Reagan.

D: Man! Hillary Clinton’s reverence for Henry Kissinger and her husband’s friendship with him and George Walker Bush should raise red flags in people’s minds and hearts.   

M: Dude! Hillary Clinton’s reverence for her husband should raise concerns in people’s minds and hearts! His friendships with Henry Kissinger and George Walker Bush involved Hillary’s presence at events and get-togethers as well.

D: Man! Bill Clinton has delegitimized the Democratic Party with his Republicanism. Hillary Clinton has essentially abandoned voters with her inappropriately placed hyena-cackles and refusal to debate her Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders. Instead, she says she’s looking forward to debating the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

M: Dude! Bernie’s foresight made him an Independent and now a Democrat. Bernie Sanders can legitimize the Democratic Party, and that’s the reason Hillary Clinton’s avoiding him. She’s a sellout to the Republicans as is her husband, having together orchestrated the 2010, 2012, and 2014 Democratic losses in local, state, and national government.

D: Man! Americans need to organize voter registration drives, not protests. We must insist on resisting unrest and embracing the political process that we’ve essentially surrendered to the top 2%ers in our society by not voting. Why would the 2%ers, including the Clintons and the Republican Majority, want to make a life in politics? Because, according to President Harry Truman, they are crooks! And there is a lot of money to be looted in American Government! There’s the rush to privatize every government agency, from the Veterans Admin (VA) to Social Security, but everyday Americans fail to connect the dots and realize that the 2%ers behaving as our government officials are pocketing all these government agencies’ funding. Also, everyday Americans understand that war is only profitable for the 2%ers alone. It is our sons and daughters who will be forced to register for military service, not the descendants of the Clintons or the Trumps or the Bushes.

M: Dude! Hillary Clinton must debate Bernie Sanders in California before the June 7, 2016 primaries and caucuses. And the debate must center around concrete specifics about each candidate’s economic policies at home and foreign policies abroad. Jose Diaz-Balart and Ayman Mohyeldin must be put in charge of moderating the debate. This is the 21^st Century and MSNBC must awaken from its slumber this election cycle. Hold the candidates equally accountable and enough with breaking news about Donald Trump’s latest alarms and subsequent moratoriums.

D: Man! There are no transcripts available online of Morning Joe and Andrea Mitchell anymore. Hillary Clinton is a-coming! Hillary Clinton’s a-coming! As Natalie Merchant composed and sang for the 2014 release of her self-titled album,

It’s a-coming.

Wild fires, dying lakes,

landslides, hurricanes,

apocalypse in store

like nothing ever seen before.

It’s a-coming.

Third-generation refugees,

street mob burning effigies,

revolution, civil war

like nothing ever seen before.

It’s a-coming.

Pale-horse rider come,

blistered by the morning sun,

tell about what he can see,

crystal ball of mercury.

It’s a-coming. It’s gonna come.

Jungle slashed and jungle burned,

the monkeys and the painted birds

climb the vines, the limbs and leaves,

the lungs that let the whole world breathe.

It’s a-coming.

All the ones that failed to thrive,

starved out and buried alive,

something evil, something free,

calamity.

It’s gonna come.

Space Race, the old Cold War,

atom bomb was gonna settle the score.

You wait and see. It’s a long time coming

but it’s a-coming. It’s gonna come.

Third-generation refugees,

street mob burning effigies,

revolution, civil war

like nothing ever seen before.

Like nothing ever seen before.

M: Dude! Feel the Bern! Feel the Bern! Bernie Sanders is the presidential candidate of the people! And American Democracy is fading fast!

D: Man! Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in the Democratic race and the presidential election this year who is of presidential caliber. Bernie Sanders is brilliance in motion. Like gravity, his presence cannot be denied by the Clintons unless Hillary Clinton wants to come across as an arrogant failure that she will be if Bernie Sanders is denied by her and the Democratic sellouts that comprise only 10% of the Democratic Party.

M: Dude! Feel the Bern and vote Virgin Islands! Feel the Bern and vote Puerto Rico! Feel the Bern and vote California! Feel the Bern and vote Montana! Feel the Bern and vote New Jersey! Feel the Bern and vote New Mexico! Feel the Bern and vote South Dakota! Feel the Bern and vote North Dakota! Feel the Bern and vote DC! Feel the Bern and vote!

D: Man! Feel the Bern! We’re fading fast! But there’s still time! Vote for Bernie Sanders!

Feel the Bern New Mexico & Do the Math & Vote for Bernie Sanders

A must-read by SHAUN KING: Superdelegates will decide who wins the Democratic nomination — but not until the convention: 

Wow. This is incredibly interesting. 

In May of 2008, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is currently the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Barack Obama. Even though the campaign was down on delegates, Wasserman Schultz actually said superdelegates should side with Clinton anyway, since she was the stronger candidate come the general election.

She said:

"Senator Clinton won last night. She will win next Tuesday. She will win in Puerto Rico. And the case needs to be made to the superdelegates — who, Governor, at the end of the day, that's who's going to decide this — that Hillary Clinton is the strongest potential nominee in the fall, and that's what we're going to — the case we're going to continue to make."

Well, here we are, eight years later, in May of 2016, and in virtually every single poll about the general election, Bernie Sanders outperforms Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.

Not only that, but Sanders outperforms Clinton with independent voters and young people by huge margins. Both demographics will be key come November.

In other words, it certainly appears that Bernie Sanders, and not Hillary Clinton, is the strongest Democratic candidate for the general election against Trump.

The truth is, again, that superdelegates are likely going to decide who is the Democratic nominee.

Let's do the math:

The nominee needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.

Currently Hillary has 1,768 pledged delegates and Bernie has 1,494 for a difference of 274 delegates.

930 delegates remain.

Hillary Clinton needs 615 pledged delegates to cross the threshold she needs. That's a bit more than 65% of the delegates and she is not predicted to win even one of the remaining states by that margin.

In other words, after the final primaries are held in June, Hillary Clinton will not have won enough delegates to be the nominee.

In many ways, the choice comes down to either the evident reality that Sanders performs better against Trump than Clinton or loyalty to the candidate who is clearly preferred by party insiders.

In response to this line of thinking, Clinton loyalists like to say that she's ahead of Sanders by 3 million votes, but upon closer inspection, that's actually not true at all.

In 12 states where Bernie won, they held caucuses in which individual votes are not tallied in the same way as they are in closed primaries.

For instance, in Washington state, which has nearly 7.1 million people, Bernie won 72.7% of the vote there, but not one single vote is counted toward the numbers where Clinton claims a 3 million vote lead over him.

In Alaska, Bernie won 81% of the vote, but not a single vote is counted toward this tally that the Clinton campaign leans on so heavily. The same is true for Maine. There, Bernie won by 29%, but because all three are caucus states, the vote tallies aren't even included.

This means we really don't know the vote difference between Clinton and Sanders.

The Clinton campaign knows this. Their friends in the media know this, but they continue to allow the campaign to tout that 3 million number even though they know full well that it's not accurate. The Democratic primaries and caucuses simply don't have accurate popular vote totals.

Not only that, but an even bigger lie has been told to the public about superdelegates.

The popular trope among Hillary supporters now is that she earned them because she won certain states or is ahead in the popular vote. That's a complete farce.

There were 359 superdelegates who pledged their vote to Hillary Clinton before even a single vote had been cast. That represents 68% of the superdelegates who have pledged to support her.

They didn't pledge their support to her because she was ahead in the popular vote or because she won Texas and Georgia. They pledged their support to her nearly a year ago. They believed then that she was such a strong candidate that it was a safe bet for them to throw their vote to her.

It's likely that they never imagined that Bernie Sanders would win 21 primaries and caucuses with 9 still remaining. Nobody could've predicted that.

It's likely that they never imagined that Donald Trump would not only become the Republican nominee, but that he would actually resonate with millions of Americans.

So, even as Bernie began to win state after state after state, superdelegates who had already pledged their public loyalty to Clinton no longer supported the actual will of the voters in their own states.

Right now, in spite of the shocking success of Bernie's campaign, 93% of superdelegates who have made their votes clear are backing Clinton. Again, the hype about them supporting Clinton because of the popular vote is a lie.

If 93% of them were supporting Bernie right now in additon to those already in his camp, Bernie would have 2,019 delegates and Hillary would have 1,807.

To say that the presence and intentions of these superdelegates hasn't made a difference is simply disingenuous. They are included in almost every public tally and makes it seem as if Hillary Clinton simply can't be beat.

I've said it before and I'll say it again — Hillary Clinton is going to absolutely struggle against Donald Trump.

It was a mistake for the superdelegates to pledge their support to her before anyone ever voted. It was a mistake to make a former Co-Chair of her campaign the Chair of the DNC. And it would be a mistake for the superdelegates, who don't actually get to make their intentions official until July, to blindly stick with Clinton when the polls show the trouble that's ahead.

Feel the Bern New Jersey & Do the Math & Vote for Bernie Sanders

A must-read by SHAUN KING: Superdelegates will decide who wins the Democratic nomination — but not until the convention: 

Wow. This is incredibly interesting. 

In May of 2008, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is currently the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Barack Obama. Even though the campaign was down on delegates, Wasserman Schultz actually said superdelegates should side with Clinton anyway, since she was the stronger candidate come the general election.

She said:

"Senator Clinton won last night. She will win next Tuesday. She will win in Puerto Rico. And the case needs to be made to the superdelegates — who, Governor, at the end of the day, that's who's going to decide this — that Hillary Clinton is the strongest potential nominee in the fall, and that's what we're going to — the case we're going to continue to make."

Well, here we are, eight years later, in May of 2016, and in virtually every single poll about the general election, Bernie Sanders outperforms Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.

Not only that, but Sanders outperforms Clinton with independent voters and young people by huge margins. Both demographics will be key come November.

In other words, it certainly appears that Bernie Sanders, and not Hillary Clinton, is the strongest Democratic candidate for the general election against Trump.

The truth is, again, that superdelegates are likely going to decide who is the Democratic nominee.

Let's do the math:

The nominee needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.

Currently Hillary has 1,768 pledged delegates and Bernie has 1,494 for a difference of 274 delegates.

930 delegates remain.

Hillary Clinton needs 615 pledged delegates to cross the threshold she needs. That's a bit more than 65% of the delegates and she is not predicted to win even one of the remaining states by that margin.

In other words, after the final primaries are held in June, Hillary Clinton will not have won enough delegates to be the nominee.

In many ways, the choice comes down to either the evident reality that Sanders performs better against Trump than Clinton or loyalty to the candidate who is clearly preferred by party insiders.

In response to this line of thinking, Clinton loyalists like to say that she's ahead of Sanders by 3 million votes, but upon closer inspection, that's actually not true at all.

In 12 states where Bernie won, they held caucuses in which individual votes are not tallied in the same way as they are in closed primaries.

For instance, in Washington state, which has nearly 7.1 million people, Bernie won 72.7% of the vote there, but not one single vote is counted toward the numbers where Clinton claims a 3 million vote lead over him.

In Alaska, Bernie won 81% of the vote, but not a single vote is counted toward this tally that the Clinton campaign leans on so heavily. The same is true for Maine. There, Bernie won by 29%, but because all three are caucus states, the vote tallies aren't even included.

This means we really don't know the vote difference between Clinton and Sanders.

The Clinton campaign knows this. Their friends in the media know this, but they continue to allow the campaign to tout that 3 million number even though they know full well that it's not accurate. The Democratic primaries and caucuses simply don't have accurate popular vote totals.

Not only that, but an even bigger lie has been told to the public about superdelegates.

The popular trope among Hillary supporters now is that she earned them because she won certain states or is ahead in the popular vote. That's a complete farce.

There were 359 superdelegates who pledged their vote to Hillary Clinton before even a single vote had been cast. That represents 68% of the superdelegates who have pledged to support her.

They didn't pledge their support to her because she was ahead in the popular vote or because she won Texas and Georgia. They pledged their support to her nearly a year ago. They believed then that she was such a strong candidate that it was a safe bet for them to throw their vote to her.

It's likely that they never imagined that Bernie Sanders would win 21 primaries and caucuses with 9 still remaining. Nobody could've predicted that.

It's likely that they never imagined that Donald Trump would not only become the Republican nominee, but that he would actually resonate with millions of Americans.

So, even as Bernie began to win state after state after state, superdelegates who had already pledged their public loyalty to Clinton no longer supported the actual will of the voters in their own states.

Right now, in spite of the shocking success of Bernie's campaign, 93% of superdelegates who have made their votes clear are backing Clinton. Again, the hype about them supporting Clinton because of the popular vote is a lie.

If 93% of them were supporting Bernie right now in additon to those already in his camp, Bernie would have 2,019 delegates and Hillary would have 1,807.

To say that the presence and intentions of these superdelegates hasn't made a difference is simply disingenuous. They are included in almost every public tally and makes it seem as if Hillary Clinton simply can't be beat.

I've said it before and I'll say it again — Hillary Clinton is going to absolutely struggle against Donald Trump.

It was a mistake for the superdelegates to pledge their support to her before anyone ever voted. It was a mistake to make a former Co-Chair of her campaign the Chair of the DNC. And it would be a mistake for the superdelegates, who don't actually get to make their intentions official until July, to blindly stick with Clinton when the polls show the trouble that's ahead.