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1. Sander's theory of the election - that he could alienate centrist voters and swing voters and more than make up the loss by motivating waves of previously unconnected voters and the youth - appears to be in the process of being disproven. It can't even be accomplished - seemingly - within the Democratic Party, much less the General electorate.
I don’t think the Sanders Theory has a ‘alienate centrists’ component. I’m fact, many of his proposals are still favored by majorities of Democrats, Medicare for All being one consistently polled positively by majorities of voters in every Super Tuesday state. The establishment and media have worked overtime to make Sanders, supporters and his platform alienating to people.
Though there has been an active smear campaign against his supporters, his record of accomplishment in office, his proposals, and popularity thru the dominant corporate media landscape, he has done more than any insurgent has done within the Conservative Democratic party in decades.
Sanders lost heavily again in the black belt among older black voters but dominated the younger black voters. Biden is only winning aging Boomers here.
Sanders wins Latino voters of all age groups.
Has more women support of the other candidates, largest number of volunteers and outraised the rest of the pack.
The Dommed liberals came out in surprising numbers once the party coalesced around Biden. It was something that I don’t recall seeing in my lifetime, With no organization on the ground, no campaign presence and trailing losses from the previous states primaries, the corporate leadership was able two swing some remarkable points and state victories. A testament to the Pavlovian training imbued in large portions of the Democratic Party. Also represented by the ‘blue no matter who’ mindset.
The blow has been taken. The next round begins.
Sanders lost Texas by 32 points in 2016. He lost to Biden by 4.5 points on Tuesday. Biden was up by 10 or better for weeks before Tuesday. Voter suppression was a large feature in Texas and, like Iowa, inadequate resources fell heavily to precincts heavily favoring Sanders. Sanders still closed the gap by a respectable amount.
He won California by a large margin.
The contrast between Biden and Sanders should become much more stark regarding their Political records for voters to decide on. Biden will be getting much more scrutiny with hardly anyone else on stage to take the attention off. That dynamic is gone now and he will now have to go into the late innings with no assists. Sanders has been under the hot glare for months now. He’s a grinder. He does the work.
It ain’t over till it’s over and it’s still close. Democratic Party appears to be willing to lose to Trump than win with Sanders. It’s now basically a new race between two candidates now.
