I doubt South Carolina will give Biden the bounce he would need -- while its voters skew older and predominatly African American/female, Bernie's message succeeded, especially in Nevada, because it includes the young and all races and ethnicities rather than catering to any one group.

Yet, it looks like Dems are going nominate a candidate (Sanders) who throws those positions out the window, replacing them with much less popular positions.

While, tonally, Sanders is another grievance candidate, sowing conspiracy theories and pointing fingers of blame everywhere.

Not to mention the fact that he's never really faced oppo. And the GOP will hit him with it hard.

  Tweety has become totally out of sorts--ties Bernie to fears of executions in Central Park, and likens Bernie's pulling ahead to Nazi's invading France.  Bernie must be stopped... they discover, after, essentially, skipping over Pete's win in Iowa(only delegates not popular vote, although that metric changes, and besides who cares about delegates to the convention). And, Iowa was a mess, so it does not count in Pete's case.

Bernie was victor in New Hampshire, by less than two percent---with little mention of this being a poor performance in a state contiguous to Vermont and for the Bernie revolutional movement under way for many years. And,by a newcomer who is a small city mayor.  The "big news" otherwise for New Hampshire, was the grand surge by Amy Klobuchar, a more distance number three to Pete's very close number two. But, but, she scored in the debate, quoting an FDR funeral mourner, and all. Book her on all the shows, repeatedly.

Joy Reid and, frequent guest on all the MSNBC shows, Jason Johnson, could rarely find a good word for Pete, if they could find a word at all.

Before the Iowa vote, Elizabeth Warren was left off on a DesMoines Register poll and was, essentially, erased after NH (not seeming to care that there were 48 states left), moving on to the new hope, Amy Klobuchar.

And, then came Mike Bloomberg.  Setting him and the debate up as the match of the century.  Of course, Bloomberg has not had the debating experience gained by his competitors over the past year.

With New York as the world's media capital, the charisma-challenged former New York mayor's likely performance could be predicted by these experts as not likely to be stellar. Set up for a fall.

While it is clear to all but Trump and his lackeys, Russia is interfering in the 2020 election. It is not clear as to the ways and means, but as in 2016, surely one tactic is to find differences in the Democratic Party and work to cause chaos and chasm. We need to be smarter than to yield to media gaslighting and wringing of hands.

 It is a primary, and we knew that one of the contenders on the stage would win. Any front runner can be expected to be pummeled by Republicans/Russians. Mother Teresa would be cast as a street walker.

Point is that I really don't see how to reconcile the mainstream dems and the direction Sanders and his minions are heading to.  The Bernie Bros have still not forgotten what they view as Clinton stealing the nomination from Sanders (I know all about Clinton's legit win, but what matters is what the Bernie Bros believe).

I could name probably half a dozen regular posters here who have posted things about Sanders that often seem harsher than what they post about Trump.  I also understand Sanders represents a real threat, the dems could lose any chance to take the Senate, lose the house, and have Trump win a second term; not to mention additional down ballot disasters.

The big advantage the pubs have is polls show over 90% of them support Trump.  Most folks agree around 30% of the dems support Sanders with all other choices double digits behind him.  While there are lots of real hard feelings between Sanders and the other dems there are also a smaller number of hard feelings between the other candidates.  A really significant number of dems resent Bloomberg (and to some extent Styers) for trying to buy the nomination.  While both have got some traction they both are spending way more than all other candidates combined.  Don't think for a second this does not create hard feelings.

One of Sanders opponents better lean in hard on this on Tuesday's debate.

"I'm more interested in beating the DNC than beating Trump."

I tried to asking questions to see if they actually knew what the DNC was.  Or why they thought it needed to be "beaten".

I could follow much of what they said.  Strange conspiracy theories that didn't make much sense.

It sounded a like people who used to rail on about the Trilateral Commission.

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