To those who STILL support Sanders: as I have previously posted, I agree with much

[The Magistrate]

91. Let Me Try Again, Sir, Very Slowly

Each primary is an individual contest.

It can therefore be considered as analogous to any other set of sequential contests. A baseball season is a familiar and useful tool for presenting how sequential contests rank out between contenders.

Mr. Biden has won the great preponderance of these individual contests. Where Sanders has led, the field has generally been crowded, so that he achieved a plurality with a decided minority share of the total vote. In head to head contests with Mr. Biden, Sanders has not increased his share of the votes, but has continued to collect the same share of roughly a third he did in a crowded field.

There is no reason at all to suspect Sanders will receive any greater share in future contests. Since our Party allocates delegates proportionally, Sanders, with a smaller share of the vote will receive fewer delegates than Mr. Biden, as the outcome of future contests.

Whatever the proportion of delegates might be today, the gap will only increase to Mr. Biden's favor. A count of 57% to 43% is landslide level rejection, and in a system allocating delegates proportionately, cannot honestly be expected to offer the candidate on the short end of those figures any prospect of overtaking the leader. Especially when the candidate on the short end of those numbers is consistently getting fewer votes than the leader.

There is no point to playing out the string, and 'Bernie' may do real harm to the prospects of defeating the cheap thug Trump and McConnell by doing so. Especially if he continues in the style of campaigning he typically employs, with emphasis on attacking not Republicans but the 'Democratic Establishment'. There is nothing "Bernie' can do that will rally a great preponderance of Democratic primary voters to his cause in contest with Mr. Biden. The man is widely detested among the people who consistently vote in Democratic primaries, and the great increase observed in primary participation this year is not going to 'Bernie' but to Mr. Biden. You are free, of course, to disregard clear and obvious facts of the situation, but that will not change them.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."