adma
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« on: February 27, 2016, 09:16:43 PM » |
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Honestly, given the nature of Sanders' campaign, I don't expect (much less recommend) him to drop out even if the chances of his nomination have gotten so much slimmer. He still serves a purpose as a symbolic magnet for a certain kind of voter; and sneer if you must, but that's an important role to play, at least on the kinds of granular, barometric statistical grounds that even a half-decent Hillary strategist would do well in parsing. And Sanders serves said purpose much more emphatically than, say, Ben Carson, whose persistence in the GOP race truly *is* a delusional waste of time. (Also, Sanders isn't going anywhere soon, as he remains a Senator--and again, given the nature etc etc, even if he loses, his run at the Presidency is a net boost to his Congressional profile and clout)
And keep in mind that I'm speaking from a Canadian perspective--over here, at least among us psephologically inclined, there can be a lot read into even landslide Conservative results in, uh, Ted Cruz's Alberta. Whereas to a lot of you, such seats are so obviously slam dunk that they might as well be Conservative acclamations, and any Liberals or New Democrats or Greens or whomever are delusional nutcases for even bothering to put up an obviously futile active challenge. Well, if so, it's not my fault that you truly suck at that kind of fine-grain psephology which can help you learn a lot about a place. (It helps that here in Canada, whether first or second hand, polling division maps and poll-by-poll results tend to be freely available--indeed, I've seen at least one US observer puzzled by that free availability, "couldn't that data be abused by outside parties", etc etc.).
So on that note, even if he'll "inevitably" lose the nomination, Leave Bernie Be.
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