Sanders campaign was SHOCKED when field narrowed, because they really thought 30% would win it

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73. He has a pattern of planning to achieve by smashing.

The only place it's worked is in VT, where I-Sanders uses a rigged election process to smash Democratic competition on the primary ballot, then run as I-Sanders in the general, with no Democratic candidate for liberals to vote for.

Interestingly, VT's state Democratic party includes many if not a majority of the state's engaged conservatives, who on average pride themselves on being more moderate than the national type. That would be at least some explanation for why Sanders' constant smears of liberal Democrats goes over so well in VT, if not with Democrats in other states. I'm assured by a VTer who sees nothing wrong with rigging Democratic elections -- so that conservatives can cleanse his races of liberals -- that his approval ratings are downright stratospheric.