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Bernie and the 50-state Solution

 


Not so fast Bernie: Hillary watchers take note. The big wins for Bernie in Caucus states, Hawaii, Washington State and Alaska, seemed to account for around 60,000 or so voters (Alaska had a whopping 500 people caucusing for Dems!). True, Bernie won big, but as for raw vote tabulation, the numbers don’t add up. Hillary still has an insurmountable lead in vote totals where large populations live.

In the long run, Hillary leads “bigly” as Trump would say, in New York and California, which make up the bulk of the remaining vote count that will put her over the top to become the nominee. It’s slightly disingenuous, which Bernie’s folks love to say about Hillary, to claim that the momentum from these wins will lead to the nomination. Sanders would have to pull off some amazing sleight of hand to win the nomination of the Democratic Party. That’s without the Super-Delegates.
 
The Super-Delegates seem to be the coolant that the GOP lacks. Republicans may start considering the end game and perhaps using their own Super-Delegates to stop the rush to nomination of an undesirable, in this case, one Donald J. Trump.

As for the Democratic Party, they should not be so smug. The Dems have been under-achiever’s for a while now in regard to winning state and local government races. The Governor’s houses and other important Senate and House elections have proven to be elusive for most Democratic leaning candidates. Aside from the obvious, gerrymandering of districts, the Democratic Party needs to return to the 50-state solution first proposed by Howard Dean and now being touted by one Bernie Sanders.
 
If and when Bernie does return to his day job in the Senate, he could do a great service, even perhaps more powerful than winning the Presidency, by continuing to promote and engage young people and disaffected Democratic Voters to become involved in the process in off-year elections. That is the long-term remedy for some of the ills that Bernie has spoken so eloquently about in this election cycle.

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