the message more loud and clear evidently.

But I doubt it...

MO and MS numbers for Biden in FL.

Glad to see a solid poll backing up that prediction.

You can trust them. They're far more accurate than you realize.

Scary accurate.

As for this particular poll, it has some very strong indicators that it's reliable. First of all, it has has a 2.5% Margin of error. That is crazy good. 3% is considered the gold standard. If you're under that, then your poll is more likely to be reliable.

Second, the poll comes from UNF's Public Opinion Research Lab, and they have a good reputation for reliable polling. I think 538 gives them an A/B grade, which means they're solid. Maybe not the very best, but definitely quite trustworthy. When the final results come out, they won't be far off.

Unless there's some kind of breakdown of the system, like undue election interference.

I wonder if turnout will be much lower especially with older voters.

Anyone who requests an absentee ballot can get one, and plenty of people vote that way

As long as they know the option exists.

I'll have plenty of company. The ballots were sent out very early. That's why some of the numbers for Bloomberg, etc. may look bloated compared to expectation.

As always -- situational influence

Everything's coming up Biden. But as far as the hail Mary you are seeing, I think it's more likely that Sanders is trying to make sure that the policy principles which are Democratic principles regarding things like liveable wage, health care, etc stay in the discussion.

I would expect Sanders to drop out next week barring some unexpected turnaround of reality.

his position to "negotiate" on policies.

There is a part of me that thinks the Biden steamroller should just run over him and move on.

You do not have to hijack the primary after you've lost to enhance your negotiating position. Things like arguing and making your case on the merits seem more fruitful and helpful.

At this juncture, if Bernie is dragging this out to haggle for his policies, I'd just squish him because he's doing something detrimental to the party and detrimental to beating Donald Trump.

I say that while preferring Bernie's policies.

We need to focus on beating Donald Trump because if we don't Bernie's policy pressure will be about as fruitful as it was in 2016 = inactionable because we don't have the power.

If Bernie's policies are as good as he thinks they are, he should not have to twist Biden's arm to get him to embrace some of them.

but as far as squishing him, I think that we need every voter we can get, so that squishing would be best done in a way that would leave Sanders' supporters ready to vote Biden in November..

with the primary racking up delegates so that Biden gets the majority.

If Sanders is soundly defeated then he has little to say or arm twist Biden on policy.

After he's been crushed the next two Tuesday's, I have a feeling Sanders will realize the jig is up.

I was a Sanders supporter in 2016. I made the transition to Clinton but with great difficulty.

This time around, Sanders supporters have a choice: Biden or Trump?
You could say they can support a third party but that's like a vote for Trump.

If Sanders supporters really think the best chance for them to get some of Bernie's policies in place is by reelecting Donald Trump, good luck to them. I think they would be horribly wrong. I'm not too worried about it because this time around, so few would think that.

If it makes you feel better.

His behavior says that it’s his ego keeping him in the race because he’s convinced that he’s the savior of liberalism.

Which he’s not, but he’s started to believe his own hype about it.

Looks like Sanders will be viable however... barely.

destruction of the "leftist revolution" as well. Pie in the sky doesn't work

When Sanders was briefly the frontrunner, many on this site (not you, beachbumbob, to my memory, this is just an example) were proclaiming that things like health care and liveable wage and public funding of universities were Democratic policy platform keystones. Now they are being derided as pie in the sky unicorn jizz Marxism. What memo did I miss? Is this the part where we decide those things never mattered in the first place?

If Biden had a policy in favor of caning or some other vile shit I would still vote for him over Trump, to be clear. But if you want other Sanders supporters to jump on that train then posts/statements like this are quite counterproductive. I want as many of his supporters not just at the polls for the Democratic nominee in November, but also pounding the ground and volunteering and getting the vote out between now and then.

Biden won more than a dozen.

A speech on universal health care. That was before Medicare was passed and Civil Rights. All considered pie in the sky. Let’s give up all our ideals just pie in the sky. Right?

I will never give up on my ideals, but I am realistic about how to get what I want.

And 2016, and every election when I voted for the Democratic candidate, which was every presidential election since my first in 1972.. I thought about Ross Perot because of NAFTA, but time to vote, I was realistic and voted for Bill..

I will vote for Biden, even though I know he will compromise away any hope of ever getting single payer healthcare for all. Who knows? Maybe he’ll surprise me. I hope so..but I will vote for him and proclaim my vote with $, letters, bumper stickers, whatever it takes..

Based on his recent comments, he seems poised to use the next debate to try to force Biden to answer questions designed to show voters how much better Bernie would be as the nominee. Voters have spoken, and at this stage Bernie risks being a spoiler. I hope he recognizes that taking this fight to the convention and using the next months to damage Joe as much as possible risks another four years for Trump.

Why should we care about a candidate and their demands who is getting blown away in primary after primary after primary??

that not everyone feels that Biden represents their views of how the party should go forward.

The purpose of having the primaries is to shape the future of the party by presenting issues as well as candidates, not only to elect a face or personality. If the party can assume a monolithic stature then we have lost our democracy. One might as well say that the candidate who collects the largest number of endorsements and donations by a certain date is the winner and therefore has the right to determine our future...with no inconvenient need to count votes or further discuss issues.

It’s all about democracy, and exactly why democracy is in such peril with a monolithic party, aka the GOP, in power. No debate, no discussion, just my way or the highway.

Praised Castro for certain things. As soon as he said what he said, he lost Florida.

In other states and guys like me (Who really DON’T want Donald Trump to win a second term) were wondering how the Good Guys could win the general election with Bernie alienating the centrist-minded voters Democrats need to win our races. I can’t say that I’m sorry that Joe is the current front-runner in the Democratic primaries.

Taking principled stands that lead to defeat may be very well for more normal times, but not when the opposition party seeks to institute authoritarian oligarchic minority rule with the rule of law subsumed to tyranny.

These blowout losses go on his permanent record and stand in stark contrast to what he's been saying for 4 years about the popularity of revolution, change, movement, direction blah blah. A complete and utter rejection. His political acumen might now be questioned. LOL Could it be possible Bernie was wrong about everything? Go back to leafy Vermont already.

that singin praises of Fidel Castro would be so disastrous?

There’s no coming back from that.

sanders not dropping out may help Biden. sanders keeps on losing primaries by large margins nnly strenghten's Joe's position https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/no-surprise-bernie-sanders-is-still-all-about-himself-never-party/

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