re: #22 HappyWarrior

Last night, I was watching the local NY Fox news broadcast (Channel 5) for election coverage and when they ran updates on the Democratic primaries, they showed Hillary with a D next to her name, and Bernie had an I.

That just strikes me as wrong. He’s running for the right to be the nominee of the Democratic party. He either is or isn’t an independent. If he’s running as a Democrat, then he’s a D. If he isn’t, then he really has no business being in the Democratic race at all.

Seems to me that the convenience of running in a pre-existing party was too much to pass up, because running as a 3d party candidate would have doomed his candidacy before it even got off the ground.

But even within Democratic party circles (open/closed primaries, and caucuses), Bernie’s not winning by any metric that counts - votes, delegates, or superdelegates.

At the end of the day, he’ll be a footnote to some trivia question.