https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1237732550669369346
One senior adviser to Bernie Sanders delivered a blunt assessment of Tuesday night’s primary results.
“The godd*** plane has crashed into the mountain,” the adviser told Yahoo News.
Well that’s reassuring to hear.
Randomization, I’m assuming.
I agree, of course. Michael Harriot has been very anti-Sanders and I don’t agree with everything he says on that (although I do agree with him on many things). That also doesn’t mean that this point of view isn’t valid, though. The point that the black electorate isn’t a monolith is important, I think, and that the same kinds of issues often split the black vote especially in the primaries.
ONCE AGAIN, to win on the first ballot a candidate needs a majority of 3979 delegates
As of right this minute, Biden has 21.5% of 3979 and Sanders has 17.8% of 3979
Biden has a 3.7% lead
There are 2115 delegates yet to even be voted up
Anybody could still win, any of the candidates who dropped out could still win
I do sure hope that’s the explanation! I still think it odd that so many candidates that dropped out in 2019 were still on a March 10, 2020 ballot.
Dunno what is about that, but the order of candidates being randomized is, AFAIK, a pretty universal system to avoid bias by alphabetical order, or whatever.
Tangent: Here in Finland, when there’s an election, the party lists are put in randomized order, with the first list starting at 2 – there is never a candidate #1, because that would bias things – and running as long as there are candiates on it, then the next list starts, and so on. Sometimes, this means that one of the teeny-tiny parties which don’t even have a parliament presence are listed first, which I think is kind of an analogous situation to Gabbard. 
Philadelphia has The Coffee Can of Destiny. Candidates pull out a numbered ball in a big ceremony from a 40 year old Horn & Hardart coffee can to determine their ballot position.
Classy.
So, the can is old enough to be president? Is it too late to enter the primaries?
That can has charisma!
And the endorsement of the electricians union.
What’s its position on healthcare?
He doesn’t need it. Just a good waxing now and again. But who doesn’t?
Do they do this at the Automat?
They’re bringing it back- now you order your meal in a tablet and self serve.
But they’re not bringing back the 16 ounce coffee can.
Perfect for the coronavirus era. (They were still around when I lived in the area long ago; not the worst place to hang with a date when you were a poor college student.)
But misogyny doesn’t exist on the left! It’s purely a product of those feminazis in academia! /s
I know this doesn’t feed the DNC bogeyman conspiracy narrative, but:
You don’t know how conspiracy thinking works, apparently. This definitely feeds conspiracy theories. Partly because everything does. But also, [conspiracy]We know Pelosi doesn’t want Sanders to win, right? So why would Pelosi want Sanders to stay in if they didn’t know the fix was in?[/conspiracy]
This is going to be a brutal campaign. No matter who wins the DEM nomination, they are going to be called a fucking communist.
Once Sanders is gone, Democrats have nobody to blame for their problems except Pelosi and Biden
