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. 