Birdie Sanders

[oath2order]

its just weird people dress him up as the next jesus, like at least every other candidate besides trump maybe has fans who admit their politician isnt perfect - coz theyre not supposed to be. but all these jokes and memes about how bernies so innocent and perfect cinnamon roll is frankly concerning and annoying if thats how easily these very many (new) voters view him. i pretty much think like a russian when it comes to politicans - every politician is corrupted one way or another. some less so, but he aint a perfect saint.

like, some people have even argued with me and called me racist because i dont think he will end racism. he will not end racism or police brutality in his lifetime. he will help curb it, maybe, but change does not happen so fast.

frankly, i do not see him winning the election regardless. but a trump/bernie race would be very funny to me, but we all know clinton will win.

i havent kept up with the gop race though but i heard cruz is winning, which is a bit concerning since i dont want that jackass anywhere near my reproductive rights or lgbt rights. like trumps a racist ******* but at least he wont turn back on lgbt laws. i guess its a matter of do i want a homophobic president or a racist president.

Cruz is catching up to Trump, which is a good thing, since it means neither of them is likely to get a majority of delegates, leading to a contested convention where the Republicans are far more like to nominate a moderate.

If Bernie loses New York, it's not over! The contest there is rigged with the closed primary deadlines and rules. There's still CA which is an open primary with 546 delegates. People there are super liberal and educated and CA has more college campuses than every other state.

It's not rigged. That's just how the state is. I think closed primaries are stupid, but that's not rigged, that's just the system.

If he loses New York, he does not have the momentu, going into Pennsylvania and Maryland on the 26th, California be damned.

 

[nintendofan85]

Cruz is catching up to Trump, which is a good thing, since it means neither of them is likely to get a majority of delegates, leading to a contested convention where the Republicans are far more like to nominate a moderate.



It's not rigged. That's just how the state is. I think closed primaries are stupid, but that's not rigged, that's just the system.

If he loses New York, he does not have the momentu, going into Pennsylvania and Maryland on the 26th, California be damned.

The thing is that could cause a lot of controversy, as John Kasich has only won his home state of Ohio and the polls don't show him winning any more anytime soon.

 

[oath2order]

The thing is that could cause a lot of controversy, as John Kasich has only won his home state of Ohio and the polls don't show him winning any more anytime soon.

Mate

If neither Trump nor Cruz gets a majority of delegates it's a brokered/contested convention no matter how controversial it is

 

[Red Cat]

If Bernie loses New York, it's not over! The contest there is rigged with the closed primary deadlines and rules. There's still CA which is an open primary with 546 delegates. People there are super liberal and educated and CA has more college campuses than every other state.

The thing is that could cause a lot of controversy, as John Kasich has only won his home state of Ohio and the polls don't show him winning any more anytime soon.

Political parties can nominate whoever they want however they want. They can draw names out of a hat if they really want to. Of course, if they want their nominee to win the election, the nominee has to have some legitimacy behind his/her selection.

For the Democrats, it might not be completely fair to have some primaries be closed and others be open, but those were the rules that Bernie Sanders signed up for when he chose to run as a Democrat. Barring a major shift in the race, Clinton will probably win a majority of the pledged delegates and rightfully be the nominee. As much as people don't like her, it's hard to argue that more people are voting for her than Sanders.

For the Republicans, they're in a tough place no matter what they do if it gets to a contested convention. Trump will go in with the most delegates, but he's the least likely to win in the general election. If Cruz is picked, then all of the Trump people will get pissed off and Cruz will have to find a way to win without them which is hard when he has little appeal to moderates. If Kasich is picked, then all of the Trump and Cruz people will be pissed off, but he would probably win a majority of moderates and independents over Clinton. It would just be a matter of if that would be enough to overcome a fractured party base.

 

[Sporge27]

There are rules that need to be followed in any election, the parties which are private clubs basically can make their own rules for how they choose their candidates. It doesn't always seem fair no, and you have a right to try to change how they are. That said it is too late for this year, but if you try to work with your party attend meetings, you can try to convince people to change how things are run!

If you waited until now to be upset, they can't change all their planning in a few months, it takes time patience, and a lot of boring meetings.

 

[toddishott]

It's New Yorks Primary today! Whoooooooooooo lets go Bernie!

 

[Celestefey]

He seems like probably the best candidate from my observation of the presidential election (despite not being American), but I do find it cringey when I see people on Tumblr drawing pictures of him with flower crowns on or w/e lmao

 

[GalacticGhost]

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[Cory]

I'd rather have bernie than ted cruz for president
I'd rather have a french fry for president than ted cruz

 

[oath2order]

Welp Bernie lost NY rest in pieces

**** Hillary I'm voting third party

 

[toddishott]

He might of lost New York but he won 40% of the delegates there and its less than 300 delegates behind Hilary now. With June 7th being Super Super Tuesday with California's 400+ delegates its going to be close but Bernie has a high percentage of winning California which if no body remembers Obama lost New York but won California, so did FDR, JFK, LBJ to name a few so still just automatically just assuming that Hilary is going to win and Bernie is screwed and this country is going to hell.

Please read the facts and understand what is happening and Bernie still has a huge shot of winning the Primaries.

 

[Red Cat]

He might of lost New York but he won 40% of the delegates there and its less than 300 delegates behind Hilary now. With June 7th being Super Super Tuesday with California's 400+ delegates its going to be close but Bernie has a high percentage of winning California which if no body remembers Obama lost New York but won California, so did FDR, JFK, LBJ to name a few so still just automatically just assuming that Hilary is going to win and Bernie is screwed and this country is going to hell.

Please read the facts and understand what is happening and Bernie still has a huge shot of winning the Primaries.

I'm as much of a Bernie Sanders fan as anyone, but he keeps losing big states and he's running out of states to win. California is still out there, but he'd have to win with about 75% of the vote to overcome the delegate deficit which is ridiculous (and he's currently behind in the polls, so just winning by one vote would be a challenge for him). Obama didn't need NY because he cleaned house in the South, but Hillary Clinton did that this time. The only way Sanders can realistically win at this point is if Clinton gets indicted over the emails and she becomes so toxic that almost no one can vote for her.

 

[oath2order]

He might of lost New York but he won 40% of the delegates there and its less than 300 delegates behind Hilary now. With June 7th being Super Super Tuesday with California's 400+ delegates its going to be close but Bernie has a high percentage of winning California which if no body remembers Obama lost New York but won California, so did FDR, JFK, LBJ to name a few so still just automatically just assuming that Hilary is going to win and Bernie is screwed and this country is going to hell.

Please read the facts and understand what is happening and Bernie still has a huge shot of winning the Primaries.

Obama may have lost New York, but he also took a large chunk of the southern states Hillary won, he also took MD (which Clinton is likely to take this time).

PA is looking close but idk.