Wednesday Open Thread [4.6.16]

Wednesday Open Thread [4.6.16]

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Bernie won Wisconsin last night as expected, but by not as healthy margin as he needs. Don't get me wrong, a 56-43 result, and thus a 13 point win is great, and it keeps him going. But in terms of making up delegate ground, it doesn't move the needle that much. As you can see in the chart inside, he wins 45 delegates to Clinton's 36, a net gain of 9 delegates. Clinton now leads Sanders 1280 to 1025, a difference of 255 still. If Bernie had won 70-30 say, he would have won 57 delegates to Clinton's 24, a net gain of 25 delegates. And now the roads gets tougher for Bernie. New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island. To put himself on target of winning the nomination, Bernie must sweep all of these states by the 70-30 margin I talked about.

The NYT accepts reality – Bernie is for real, Clinton is on the wrong side of history

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It may well be weeks or months before the corporate media and the high Dems around here accept reality, but cracks are beginning to show through, and "delegate math" incantations grow increasingly hollow.
Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday, his sixth straight victory in the Democratic nominating contest and the latest in a string of setbacks for Mrs. Clinton as she seeks to put an end to a prolonged race against an unexpectedly deft and well-funded competitor.
I'm not a zealous anti-Clinton person, but it is getting increasingly difficult for her supporters to deny that she had had her hand on all of the shady shit that has made life increasingly miserable for the American working class. Iraq War - She voted for it. Free trade that shifts American manufacturing to Mexico and beyond - Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment. Deregulation of the financial Industry - She was (is?) all for it.
...the (Wisconsin) loss underscores her problems connecting with young and white working-class voters who have gravitated to Mr. Sanders’s economic message — a message he will now take to economically depressed parts of New York State ahead of the April 19 primary there.
I initially said that it seems like she is running for President in 1988 somewhat flippantly, but I'm more and more convinced that I tripped over the truth. Unless Clinton gets a handle on the issues that are important to people today, I don't see her being the nominee.