Sanders rather ill-advised "you can't stop me" tweet might have been a catalyst, though Biden was showing signs of moving up in the polls and he was always going to win SC.

Because of some odd choices (like 538's model factoring in the highly-unlikely possibility that Biden would drop out before SC), the race looked much more settled than it really was.

first 3 state contests. Nothing could be decided before SC and other southern states with large African American populations had their say.

Sanders' obnoxious "you can't stop me" remark shows how full of himself he was and how he misread the zeitgeist of the nation and mislead his followers with his naivete in thinking the country and party would elect a socialist.

Their attempted punditry is horrible. Just awful.

I loved most of them, yet we are at two. Fact is Joe is the one that can unite us. He has a calming voice and can correct the wrongs.

Once again Dems are coming in to pick up the shattered pieces that the GOP once again left behind. They have destroyed everything good. You have to fix what is broken before you can make any new agenda work.

Go Joe.

every time a Dem gets in the White House it takes 'em most of their 8 years to fix all the shit that Goppers broke before that.

Then a Republican gets into office again and they start breaking a whole bunch of new shit all over again.

Getting kinda tired of constantly being on the cleanup crew.

*Sigh*

Clinton lost the House in 1994 to Gingrich "contract with America" and Obama lost it in 2010 because of Obamacare.

And this is another thing that irks me: the Republicans see everything in black and right in the "Me Tarzan You Jane." So they come with these catchy slogans "Contract with America," "Make American Great Again." They don't mean much but they work

Was thinking about that just last night. Even the Senate "supermajority" the Dems had when Obama took office didn't last for a full 2 years. They actually barely had it for a few months. Franken didn't get sworn in until early July because that asshole Coleman sued and kept it in the courts for many months. Kennedy was real sick and died shortly after that...and they had to wheel Byrd in for votes as well since he was very ill, too. Then Scott Brown won the special election to replace Kennedy in early 2010 and that was the end of that. Thanks a lot, MA....WTF were you thinking???

Throw in recesses and the Dems had only an extremely narrow window to get Obamacare passed. But of course ignorant Republicans who don't know shit about history much less anything else say "hey, you guys had a supermajority for 2 whole years and didn't get anything done."

but was told that he should step down when he would feel like it.

He had a stroke on inauguration day and was missing after that. In the euphoria that followed the Obama elections we could have had another D from MA. Martha Coakley, probably, though she still carried the stain of the supposedly child care sex scandal.

We did have a temporary Dem Senator from MA who replaced Kennedy and then voted for the ACA. But then they had a special election to get a voter-approved one and that's when Brown got in there. MA voting for a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy of all people which then cost us our supermajority is just inexplicably mindboggling.

I dunno...it often seems like we Democrats are snakebit...and when there are no snakes around we're shooting ourselves in the foot.

A calm head, one that is well known and respected by all the leaders of the free world. Once again we have to clean house from the bottom up.

have our normal lives again, a functioning government that we can rely on instead of these toxic extremes. He was so presidential. So reliable. He actually gave me hope. I’m so happy to see millions rushing to get behind Biden now...this article is so good.

Or they saw the writing on the wall. But they endorsed a uniter. They could have declined to endorse or endorse a divider.

They saw the writing on the wall and were smart enough to know that Bernie would get to the convention with the most delegates but not a majority if they all stayed in. In that scenario it would be hard to withhold the nomination from him without fracturing the party.

Searchin' for 'his' lost shaker of salt?

but he’s getting boxed out by voters instead, and fast.

lol.. as were many others! lol I'm still pinching myself. ouch.

What a great exciting article to relive What Happened! I love reading analysis like this when there's such a beautiful outcome.. Mahalo, Bill!

A few snippets I like especially..

I went out to vote for Joe and when I came back he'd won four more states including Minnestoa!!!

"exciting"? Just about all the pundits.. it's a meme that got Destroyed on the Super Spectacular Tuesdays!

Mahalo, ucr!

feel the solidarity,

Hi Cha

it so delightfully well! It's like we were there all over again.. I can never get enough of that.

From the disappointment of the earlier caucus states and NH to now has been a glorious roller coaster ride.. We knew what it felt like to hang in there and wait for South Carolina.. Bless James Clyburn and Jannie Jones!

That is a powerful story.

undying gratitude as they say.. and I've never said this before.

resurrected Joe Biden's campaign.

had happened over the weekend of the SC vote.. and someone said.. Lazarus came back from the dead.

Indeed a miracle and Thank you, James Clyburn and Jannie Jones.

Thank you Jannie Jones!!

Mahalo, Jannie Jones and God Bless America!

Not with about 50 delegates. And I hope that this is one lesson we've learned. That winning two small states which are not representative of the country as a whole, and a caucus state which, again, is in the minority, do not make a "front runner."

There were polls flying around showing Bernie winning SC, Biden getting shut out of CA, Biden winning no states on Super Tuesday. And then came South Carolina and that was the end of the glorious revolution.

presumptuous. And we got into Catch-22. It looked grim and we lost our hope.

Having been through a few elections it gets to be a habit.

But if you don’t have the Base of our part, African Americans you cannot win. As a southerner I knew Bernie was going to get jack shit of their vote.

Wait till Tuesday. That’s point will be driven home.

see why it wasn't viable.

Here's Mr Scorpio with a pic of President Obama giving the Shaka sign..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027653223

Indeed it does mean hang loose..

to you for the same.. So glad you're back at this point in time.

I love this historical article.. I never would have seen if you hadn't posted it.

People here are no longer anti trade for the most part. They're sick of hearing about NAFTA and hate Trump's trade policies. They think Bernie and Trump are similar on trade. Every time Bernie brought us NAFTA, it hurt him worse. Some here did not believe me. Lol.

in the 21st century.