If the election were held today, Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide, 347 to 191. In the last six presidential elections, 18 states and D.C. have voted “blue” every time. That is not about to change. Those states add up to 242 of the 270 needed for victory. With 28 more needed, Florida has 29 and is likely to go blue. Those 19 do not include New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada or New Mexico, which went for Obama in 2012.
The popular vote doesn’t win presidential elections. Electoral College votes determine the winner, which is why the Sanders camp stresses the popular vote in polling. This is deceptive as is his message of pathways to the nomination.
Sanders was done after the March 22 primaries. This deception has worked so well with his supporters that 40 percent don’t think Clinton will be the nominee. This is pretty simple math, but it seems that math isn’t a strong point with Sanders supporters.
This is massive self-delusion coming from the very top – a trickle-down insanity. Sanders will not change many superdelegate minds.
Even if delegates were divided by proportionally from the votes in each state, Sanders would lose big. Just this week Sanders lost a superdelegate in the U.S. Virgin Islands to Clinton because he refused to present detailed plans for his agenda.
If you read the N.Y. Daily News interview you’d know that Bernie Sanders doesn’t really have a plan but has plenty of soaring rhetoric.
JAMES VEVERKA
Tilton