Markos Moulitses, founder of Daily Kos, wrote an editorial for The Hill, that Bernie Sanders should drop out because there is no plausible way for him to get the nomination. By saying this, he has infuriated millions of Sanders supporters in the process. However, while he has made Bernie people mad, in the end, he’s right on the money.
Even though Sanders won Utah and Idaho rather easily, Sanders only picked out a net gain of about 10 delegates because Hillary blew him out in Arizona.
Markos went on the say. “in short, while there is still a mathematical chance of a Sanders victory, it is not a realistic one. Hillary Clinton never trailed Obama by more than 150 delegates at anytime during the 2008 primaries, and that race wasn’t particularly close.”
Markos has a point. With her victory last night in Arizona, Clinton has around or over 1700 pledged and super-delegates in her back pocket. Granted, the upcoming primaries and caucuses seem to favor Bernie, he can’t simply squeak by with wins. He has to dominate the way Hillary has dominated him in her blowout victories. Add to the fact that New York, Pennsylvania and the big kahuna, California have yet to vote, and recent polls show Hillary leading all three.
Bernie is not going to listen to calls telling him to get out, but more and more people are telling him to do so, but unless something completely off the wall happens, Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee. Staying in will please his supporters, but the earlier Hillary can concentrate on beating Trump, the better.
The earlier Trump can concentrate on beating Hillary, the better.
I believe the notion is that the earlier HRC can concentrate on beating Trump, the better because unlike the other GOP POTUS candidates, she’s awesome.
And leaps tall buildings in a single bound!
If I understand correctly, Sanders picked up 75 pledged delegates to Clintons 56 in the primaries and caucuses that was held 22rd of March. Sanders needs to win about 58% or more of the pledged delegates that remain to win, which would be 76. So more or less on target then.
If Sanders keeps winning with these margins, it will be a very tight race in pledged delegates. So I don’t see why Markos would say that, based on the math.
Is Markos editorial just another of all those “your candidate can’t win, get off the track and let the one I prefer win!” articles? (They do seem to be rather common)
Or am I missing something?
No, you are right. It will be tough but Sanders could certainly make it to the convention with a boatload of delegates. Enough to stop HRC? Who knows.
But with Markos, you are seeing the result of co-option of an outsider into an insider. He probably has been having private conversations with Hillary staffers, saying how great his site is to the “Progressive” cause. How he is indispensable to a Democratic victory; but there is too much energy being wasted on the Sanders fellow. He needs to shut that talk down and get his readers to fall in line. And when Hillary wins, he will be an insider. His concerns will be listened to.
Yeah, right. As a Democrat, its my God Given right to be contentious. And beside, If, by some small chance, Trump is pushed to the side during the convention, we may get a “main stream” (not crazy) Republican that would be acceptable to a majority of the country. One whose negatives aren’t has high as HRC. Its not a sure thing that Hillary would win; best to keep one’s options open.
R
Markos didn’t need to be co-opted. His political orientation was always been with the insiders except for one “minor” issue, the Iraq War, (which is all water over the bridge for him now), and one major issue, DEMs back when he built dKos couldn’t win elections.
well yes, her inevitability is one of their 2 arguments (also, she’s not as bad as Trump, other argument)
Well, she should be able to coast on home and ignore him then, no?
But we appreciate your concern…
Exactly. What a crock from that Moulistas guy.
Moulitses! I don’t want to hurt the other guys feelings.
From Wikipedia
Moulitsas is…and always has been…nothing more or less than a PermaGov/Centrist/Neoliberal lure sent to troll the so-called progressive waters.
Pay him no serious mind.
AG
Seriously doubt that he was “sent.” He just stumbled onto setting up a blog at the right time and stayed ahead of the competition by upgrading it to accommodate more users. A decent middling business. Huffington beat him big time in that arena.
However, he was never more than a mushy centrist that was often masked with libertarian stylings.
I don’t know about the “sent” part. Maybe “used” would be a better word.
Have you read the thing I wrote back in dKos times (2005) regarding the troll office? I reposted it in a comment here recently. Here it is again.
Did…does…Moulitsos kniow about this sort of shit? If he does, then is he the controller or just another go-along-to-get-along fool?
I dunno. But the facts remain.
Later…
AG
LOL — DHinMI was outed as a DEM campaign operative in 2003. By that fall the place was crawling with them to take down Dean. Markos, of course, knew and wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t get some funding but likely after Dean was out and Media Whores Online went down. (My wild ass guess is that MWO and Media Matters were faux progressive, front operations in the building of the Clinton machine. The screwed up a bit in not recognizing that Hillary is such a weak candidate that they needed to get more of the lefty blogs on board with her before the 2008 campaign began. They did learn not to repeat that mistake.)
Time to make another donation to Bernie.
btw one of my first donations to Bernie was a recurring very small donation; found out after some water under the bridge that DFA was pocketing half of it!!! made the mistake of answering a dfa fundraising appeal.
I go through the ActBlue appeals. I don’t leave a tip because I think the tip goes to Markos.
Does anyone know if that is true and does the tip fund Markos in any way? Does all or most of my donation go to Sanders (also Canova).
How can I find out Canova’s total fund raising? I know it’s public knowledge somewhere.