No matter what the news media, other pundits, or the math say, last night's big win in West Virginia gave Bernie Sanders a whole new life, and Hillary Clinton knows it.
That's why she's having to spend hundreds of thousands of unplanned dollars on a media buy in Kentucky--next Tuesday's primary and Bernie's next big challenge.
He's won two important open primaries in a row (and lost closed contests in Guam and Nebraska where a total of 12 delegates were divvied up). But Kentucky is open to only Democrats and has 61 delegates to split.
All indicators say Bernie should lose this one. He's done poorly in closed primaries.
But Hillary suffered dearly in West Virginia for her 'I'll get rid of the coal miners' remark. Kentucky, as we know from Janice Joplin, also has coal mines. So we'll see Hillary's misstep haunts her there as well.
If Bernie pulls out a win in Kentucky, it's very possible that he'll run the table on Super June 7th, which includes the grand prize of California
Despite the official media line, Bernie can still find that very narrow path to a majority of pledged delegates and a contested convention. It's unlikely, but not impossible.
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With YUGE momentum going into Philadelphia in July, Bernie would have a powerful argument that he's the stronger candidate and should be the party's choice to face Donald Trump in November.
Poor Bernie. I now know what he'll face if he does become the nominee because I've figured Donald Trump's campaign tactics out.
Thanks to some brilliant insight from my wife, I'm pretty sure that this is what he's up to.
Up until 11 months ago, as he likes to remind us, The Donald was just a private citizen like the rest of us. And as such, he got most of his political news from the tube.
I know what I do when I'm watching the tube and a politician says something really insulting to my intelligence. Maybe you do it too, and I'd bet money Trump does. I scream at the TV!
And what comes out of my mouth would absolutely disqualify me from being president, but not Donald Trump.
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| This is one of those trick pictures like that black and gold dress. This may look like a picture of a toilet. But if you stare at it long enough, you'll actually see Donald Trump's mouth. |
In fact, Trump takes it to the stump. And all of it resonates with his followers because they're screamers, too.
What he says seems so outrageous, but it's all so much like the stuff you'd yell at the top of your lungs in the privacy of your own home...unfiltered, irrational; never meant to leave the room.
Trump boldly confronts politicians with it, and they crumble. Witness how he took down 16 experienced opponents in record fashion.
It seems so counter-intuitive that such nastiness works so well. But until it stops working, I not so boldly predict we'll be seeing a lot more of it.
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