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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why people want him out of the race so badly.  Just let him stay in until it's over.  What's the big deal with that?[/quote]

I'm the OP and I don't want him out of the race. I want him to stop attacking HRC, since he probably can't win the nomination, and I want him to say he will back the eventual nominee. If he's genuinely a party member, he needs to do that, and needs to invest in building the party down ticket. [/quote]

I'm with you, OP. I don't care if he stays in the race. But I don't like they way his campaign has been acting lately: suing the DNC, planning to court the super delegates because they are losing the popular vote, completely dismissing the Southern states and the AA vote, his statements about supporting HRC should he not be the nominee etc. Like I said before, he wasn't my first choice, but I respected him a great deal. No more. [/quote]

I don't think he's dismissing the southern states.  He was the first one to state he was going to run a 50-state campaign, and by golly he did.  At some point you throw your campaign resources where you think they'll get you the biggest bang, especially when you're behind and especially when the race is veeeeery tight but you have momentum.  As far as dismissing the AA vote, I see he's not getting the AA vote, but I don't see him dismissing this group in his campaign, rhetoric, or policy.  Where have you read that?[/quote]

“I think you’re going to see us doing—and I think the polls indicated it—much better within the African-American community outside of the Deep South,” Sanders said after losing South Carolina. “You’re going to see us much better in New York State, where I think we have a shot to win, in California and in Michigan.”

Sanders said his campaign had a good path forward even though “the deep south” was “not a strong area for us”, and pointed out that in Illinois and Missouri the campaigns nearly split the delegates available despite Clinton winning the states.

“She creamed us in Mississippi and Louisiana and South Carolina,” he said, before adding that[b] Democrats are “not going to win those states in the general election”.[/b]

“As we head to the west coast, which is probably the most progressive part of America, I think as you go forward you’re going to see us doing better and better.”

“Those people are not going to be voting for establishment politics. [b]They want real change.[/b]”[/quote]

Is this "dismissive?"  My goodness, you and I read words differently.  Okay, we'll just agree to disagree.[/quote]

Really?The bolded?
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Hardly seems insulting or dismissive to me.  Okay, anyway, no biggie. I think this is the smallest of bones to pick, but feel free to pick it.  I don't care about Hillary's damn emails, and I don't care about this.  [/quote]

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