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    carpetboxerBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 2:49am

    How can people be possibly asking Sanders to bow out given these results?

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      Xsoruscarpetboxer
      3/23/16 2:56am

      Because Math.

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      Yourwhathurts?carpetboxer
      3/23/16 2:57am

      Math. It is virtually impossible for him to overtake Hillary given her current delegate lead.

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    CerabretBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 3:05am

    You know, i realize i want sanders to stay in the race, amd not because of any good reason, though im sure hed be a decent prez after all his big promises fall through like any others. I just realized watching the sanders supporters in the comments ping pong between “the savior has come” joy and “the messiah is dead” dispair is morbidly entertaining.

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      carpetboxerCerabret
      3/23/16 3:29am

      He’s not the messiah. He’s just the better candidate of the ones in the field, as New Jim Crow scholar Michelle Alexander notes with some melancholy:

      But recognizing that Bernie, like Hillary, has blurred vision when it comes to race is not the same thing as saying their views are equally problematic. Sanders opposed the 1996 welfare-reform law. He also opposed bank deregulation and the Iraq War, both of which Hillary supported, and both of which have proved disastrous. In short, there is such a thing as a lesser evil, and Hillary is not it.

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      HillarysTechnicolorWardrobeCerabret
      3/23/16 3:38am

      Haha it is getting to the point where it’s all becoming absurd. We’ve all made up our minds. Nothing we say to each other is going to change our votes.

      Also I found your state of mind right now:

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    carpetboxerBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 3:37am

    “I’m behind anyone who’s gonna listen and speak up for us, and I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders. There’s no other person that’s speaking about this. People are dying. This is real, this is not TV. We need a president that’s going to talk about it. I believe Bernie Sanders is a protester. He’s not scared to go up against the criminal justice system. He’s not scared.” - Erica Garner

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      carpetboxercarpetboxer
      3/23/16 5:56am

      #aurarosser

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      CannotDealAnymorecarpetboxer
      3/23/16 6:25am

      I don’t believe he will do anything. He doesn’t want to work with anybody, and always thinks his ideas are the best and will not compromise. But in politics there will be people who don’t agree with you and the US is huge so what works in one area will not work in every area and you have to work with the insane republicans even if you don’t want to. He hasn’t really done anything except typical politician pandering to his constituents with the gun laws, for example. He is a typical career politician. That is how I view him anyway. It feels a bit too little too late. He should have been more vocal ten years ago.

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    BlanksheetBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 3:39am

    If a democratic socialist ever does get elected to the White House, with an accompanying Congress, he could solve the problem of too-fucking-long American presidential elections. Make them two months, tops. One of the fucking problems, I imagine, unique to this country.

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      The-Rumors-Are-All-TrueBlanksheet
      3/23/16 4:54am

      He would be president, not king. He can’t just summarily change the length of elections. Although I agree that our elections have gotten out of hand.

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      Mad HatterBlanksheet
      3/23/16 5:27am

      Yeah, but would you want a quickie election with horror shows like Drumpf lurking?

      Vetting is our fascist safety net.

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    William JeffersonBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 2:54am

    Sounds like even Bernie is starting to pound the war drum some. Obama has proved No matter who wins the wars continue.

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      Younger KennedyWilliam Jefferson
      3/23/16 10:07am

      Read the full quote: “We can win that war and destroy ISIS without getting the brave men and women in the U.S. armed forces into a perpetual war in the Middle East,”

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      TheDramaLlammaYounger Kennedy
      3/23/16 11:03am

      Is that not what we are doing right now? Hows it working out so far? Its “working,” I guess, but I don’t see an end in sight, do you?

      Can’t ignore the ME, it sure as shit won’t ignore us. We are the dumbshits who destabilized everything, we are stuck with this mess till the bitter end... whenever that is. If ever.

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    TheLostShameofCharlieSheenBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 4:05am

    These results don’t help with the perception Sanders can barely win outside of lily-white states.

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      The-Rumors-Are-All-TrueTheLostShameofCharlieSheen
      3/23/16 4:56am

      Or that he can’t win primaries, only caucuses. I believe that he has only won primaries in Vermont, New Hampshire and a close win in Michigan. The difference between a caucus and a primary can be upwards of hundreds of thousands of voters.

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      PoimanentlyPuckeredThe-Rumors-Are-All-True
      3/23/16 6:30am

      The difference is in a caucus, everyone knows your vote. In an election, the votes are kept private.

      So we can assume that when they have to make their preferences public, people say Bernie. But when they’re alone in the booth, they choose Clinton. It’s like a a kind of Bradley effect.

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    DailyTrixBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 2:51am

    This is much better than winning those Confederate states like Ohio.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesDailyTrix
      3/23/16 3:20am

      lol. This is some good Kinja.

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      KojimokoDailyTrix
      3/23/16 3:38am

      I just welcomed my friend from Arizona to the Deep South after they christened the Anti-Christ (Is she that now?) Hillary Clinton as the winner. Time to go make toad stew for the upcoming gathering.

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    TheCellarDoorBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 6:03am

    Gawker or TheSlot, can you please report on the voter suppression and voter fraud that took place in Arizona? It puts our so-called “democratic” system to shame.

    Voter suppression in Latino communities; 5 hour lines cut off by 7 pm; 200 polling centers down to 60 in one county; Independents who changed to Democrat not allowed to vote; Random evacuations.

    Is this the first time Arizona has ever held an election? It was so outrageous, it seems intentional.

    If anyone is interested, there is a petition to investigate what happened: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/inves…

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      IanTheCellarDoor
      3/23/16 9:52am

      Where did you get all of your information? And was it all confirmed?

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    Stone Cold Steve AutismBrendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 9:26am

    HELL

    CRUZ AND KASICH HAVE WON FEWER STATES THAN SANDERS HAS COMBINED YET THE MEDIA SCREAMS “THEY STILL HAVE A CHANCE!”

    SANDERS IS JUST 287 DELEGATES BEHIND CLINTON, YET THE MEDIA SCREAMS “SANDERS IS JUST CHASING WINDMILLS”

    INEVITABILITY INDEED.

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      TheDramaLlammaStone Cold Steve Autism
      3/23/16 11:05am

      Cruz/Kasich have a chance to prevent Trump from clinching the nomination... not actually winning it themselves. Point being, if Trump doesn’t win outright the GOP convention can give the nomination to someone else.

      That is simply not the case in the Democratic race

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    kaysey17Brendan O'Connor
    3/23/16 3:31pm

    Some petitions you might want to sign regarding oversight to prevent crap like last night in AZ from happening again:

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/inves…

    http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/get-un-ob…

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