The cold, hard truth: it's game over for Bernie Sanders
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From The Guardian:
Instead, on Super Tuesday the socialist senator spoke of an idyllic place where democracy is still as pure as the mountain snow that didn’t fall this year. It’s a Swiss-like canton where they have town meetings for citizens to make decisions in a democratic fashion. “In Vermont,” Sanders explained, “billionaires don’t buy town meetings.” Well, they would be strange billionaires if they did.
In a place called Vermont, you can stand in front of your cheering supporters and explain the glory of proportional delegate allocation: that a narrow victory doesn’t confer a big advantage in delegates. “By the end of tonight,” Sanders declared, “we are going to win many hundreds of delegates.”
But in a place called America, that doesn’t mean a whole lot if your rival is winning many hundreds more. Sure enough, despite Sanders claiming Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota, Clinton won lopsided victories across the south, enough to push her far into the lead.
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Yet Sanders should be strong in the late-voting west. I'm not convinced it's over.
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From The Guardian:
Instead, on Super Tuesday the socialist senator spoke of an idyllic place where democracy is still as pure as the mountain snow that didn’t fall this year. It’s a Swiss-like canton where they have town meetings for citizens to make decisions in a democratic fashion. “In Vermont,” Sanders explained, “billionaires don’t buy town meetings.” Well, they would be strange billionaires if they did.
In a place called Vermont, you can stand in front of your cheering supporters and explain the glory of proportional delegate allocation: that a narrow victory doesn’t confer a big advantage in delegates. “By the end of tonight,” Sanders declared, “we are going to win many hundreds of delegates.”
But in a place called America, that doesn’t mean a whole lot if your rival is winning many hundreds more. Sure enough, despite Sanders claiming Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota, Clinton won lopsided victories across the south, enough to push her far into the lead.
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Yet Sanders should be strong in the late-voting west. I'm not convinced it's over.
