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I'll add a few pennies to this discussion. If Sanders were able to win the primaries and get a majority of votes he would be the DP nominee. If Trump could do it in the GOP, though there are greater obstacles to this in the DP, it could be done in the DP and there was nothing the DNC or Clintonites could of done about it. The fact is that few Sanders supporters understood the polling, even AFTER he won Nevada and the establishment of the professional caste inside the DP were preaching doom and gloom, which pointed to him having about *half* the support he did in 2016. This was true from the very beginning. At no point was he ever going to have enough delegates to win an outright majority if one looks at the polls on a state-by-state basis. He never really breached 27% even in the states he won. Anything short of an outright majority of delegates meant super delegates were in play. Everyone knew this, except, it seems, Sanders activist supporters. The support was simply *never there*. Of course the DP establishment finally go their act together behind Biden. So what? That it is politics...and was based on the fact the *voters* in large part who supported the other "moderate" Democrats (whatever that means) were, ergo, in the MAJORITY and thus Biden could be the only winner in this contest. Even if Warren had endorsed him or not run at all, the results, I believe, would be pretty much the same. The bigger question now is what are all these activists going to do now? Will DSA grow? Will it move more independently? Will there be a big desertion of Bernieistas to the Green Party? Will most just campaign for Biden because Trump is so much worse (in their view)? David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
