re: #369 Anymouse

Even if Senator Sanders does not give up, he will lose on the first ballot. Secretary Clinton has the most votes, the most states, the most delegates (even without the super delegates).

A floor flight is meaningless at this point. He is free of course to go to that vote, but he will lose. The Democratic Party has given Mr. Sanders far more than they had to, in consideration of the large number of votes and delegate he did get. However, the party is not required to roll over for him when he lost the primary election.

I supported Sanders (I am in for Mrs. Clinton now), but at this point it doesn’t even seem like it is about him; it is almost as if someone (or a group) is pushing him to this position. He knows Donald Trump would be an utter disaster, he said so himself. I really don’t know what is going on here.

I hate to sound crass here but do you think it could possibly be early signs of dementia? The man is seventy five. I’m just really confused by his actions. Honestly, he’s lost me big time by making a lot of his gripes about closed primaries. I’m sympathetic on some of the ideological stuff but the whole fixation over open primaries rubs me the wrong way. He was seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination and honestly it to me was incredibly two faced of him to complain about closed primaries while he himself benefited from caucuses.