Fortunately, millions of Americans aren't buying it.
Hopefully, California will go the way of Michigan and prove to be a blow-out Sanders win. The latest California poll, just released by USC Dornsife and the Los Angeles Times, shows Sanders actually ahead of Clinton for the first time, 44 to 43. That's a phenomenal achievement, going from a 50% deficit last fall to a lead in the pools the day before the voting. And with a record number of new registrants since Jan. 1, most of them young, and with independents able to vote in California's Democratic primary (if they ask for a special ballot that allows them to register as Democrats at the polls), it's possible that the Sanders vote could turn out to be significantly higher than the polling even indicates, given that pollsters typically miss young voters who use cell phones, and also given that Sanders has been doing better and better among minority voters over the course of this long primary season.
At that point, of course, given Clinton's abysmal performance in national and state by state polling against Donald Trump, who has become the Republican's presumptive presidential nominee, the Democratic superdelegates who had long ago pledged to back Clinton -- the corrupt union leaders who backed her candidacy ignoring the wishes of their rank-and-file, the current and former Democratic elected officials, particularly members of Congress, who feared to buck Clinton because of worries about paying a price in terms of support for their own campaigns, or of loss of influence in Congress, the lobbyists seeking to curry favor with a candidate they had assumed would become the next president, can be expected to start worrying that they are betting on a lame horse who could lose to Trump and the Republicans.
If that happens -- and a small trickle of state party leaders who are superdelegates have just started saying they are unhitching themselves from Clinton and are backing Sanders -- those votes that the party-line media claim have "clinched the nomination" for Clinton may abandon her, leaving her well shy of a majority with just her pledged delegates.
At that point we have the "contested delegation" in Philadelphia on July 25 that Sanders has been predicting. And then who knows what happens.
Again, I am urging all Sanders supports across the country to make plans now to head for Philadelphia and to join those already in the city and who have already made plans to be here, to make it clear to the Democratic Party hacks that they either nominate Sanders, or they lose in November.
This is not a typical election, where the choice of the Democratic Party is between a Tweedle Dum corporatist candidate and a Tweedle Dee corporatist candidate. This year, it's between Hillary Clinton, a corrupt, money-grubbing, neoliberal pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-Israel candidate who has sucked up as much corporate money as she could grab, and Bernie Sanders, an honest guy with a life-time record of progressive political action, who calls for dialogue and diplomacy not war as a default national policy, an at least arms-length, neutral relationship with Israel and Palestine who has funded his campaign with no corporate money, just small donations from his supporters.
Fully half of Sanders' backers are saying that they cannot and will not support Hillary Clinton if she wins the nomination -- a sentiment which, if correct, would doom her chances of winning in November even if she otherwise had a chance of winning (which is debatable given how widely loathed she is among independent voters).
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