Bernie Stomps Hillary Twice in One Night

Good work week Friends,

I'm sure not too many of you watched last night's Democratic debate from Flint, Michigan. In my humble opinion, it was a tour de force for Bernie Sanders.

He succeeded at nearly every turn in pushing Hillary Clinton's positions to the left, closer to his own, save for gun control.

There he made Hillary's gun control policies appear to upend the 2nd Amendment, causing American gun manufacturers to fail by making them liable for damages caused by their products.

What went little noticed, is that while Bernie was dominating the debate, he was doing even better in Maine. There, he beat Hillary Clinton by more than 28 points in the Democratic Caucuses.

Now every one of you white folks go out there and bring back a black friend. All these
white faces are getting embarrassing!

Go back to last Wednesday's post where I said that Hillary can't win the white vote, and Maine is further evidence of that. It also portends trouble for the Democrats if she eventually is their nominee.

I don't believe Bernie supporters will fall into lock step and vote for Hillary in the general election. Nearly as many who go for Hillary are likely to vote for Donald Trump, or simply not vote at all.

These are the disaffected white middle-class, grass-roots supporters to whom both outsider candidates hold appeal.

In a Clinton/Trump face off, there may be record turnout, but it would be the rare instance where big turnout helps a Republican. Trump and Sanders are the two candidates inspiring so many first-time voters...not Clinton.

The media and the Democratic party establishment seem bent on Hillary becoming the party's nominee, even though Bernie is winning by large margins virtually all the contests in traditional blue states.

Hillary can prove only that she's capable of winning primaries in states the party writes off to the GOP in the general election anyway. If Santa Claus ran as a Democrat there, he'd lose.

Do the math, and it doesn't add up to the Oval Office for Hillary Clinton. This is why polls show Bernie Sanders is the one Democrat that beats all comers.

Bernie wins the white middle class vote in the big northern states, and that's the path to victory--not sweeping the black vote in the south.

Racial politics is an uneasy thing to talk about, and party leaders are denying they have a problem.

It would go better for them to face the reality that black Democrats are more likely to support Bernie Sanders if the party nominates him, than are Bernie's white supporters to rally to Hillary Clinton.

Black voters are extremely loyal to the party, but that's not so for many of Bernie's backers, who are either new to politics or have otherwise looser ties.

Perhaps its time for the party to welcome these voters totally into the Democratic tent and, at least, take its collective finger off Hillary's scale.