It ain't over yet, and don't let anybody tell you it is!

Be prepared to deal with the negativity. Think positive in return. They want you to give up. You will hear, especially on here, all about “the math” and “party unity” (from the mouths of many who identified as PUMAs in ‘08) and “Bernie keeps losing” (except 8 out of the last 10) and “popular vote” (who cares that 3 million people were kept from voting in this primary or that caucuses states don’t get added to that number) etc etc etc.

Ignore them. We have facts and truth on our side, even if the process is an uphill battle.

The CNN exit polls from NY are damning for Clinton:

72% independents for Sanders (14% of respondents)

81% age 18-24 for Sanders (7% of respondents)

53% age 24-29 for Sanders (10% of respondents)

53% age 30-44 for Clinton (24% of respondents)

63% age 45-64 for Clinton (39% of respondents)

73% age 65+ for Clinton (19% of respondents)

This is a state with the strictest (read: locking out switching and new voters) registration laws in the country. Had it been semi-open or open, then Sanders wins NY and likely wins it big because those % of respondents become much bigger numbers (how many 100s of 1,000s didn’t vote after finding out they registered too late).

Bring the registration dates to within a week of the primary and Bernie flips the 30-44 demographic and gets a surge of younger support. “But Democrats should choose the Democratic nominee.” But independents and young voters decide the general election.

And it ain’t over. CA is an open primary. Other states will be Bernie blowouts.

Kentucky is feeling the Bern

Don’t forget, Hillary Clinton was a 2 term Senator here, during 9/11 as well (fighting back from that kind of tragic event creates incredible bonds — which is a credit to Hillary, not a criticism). She benefitted from the media slandering Sanders big time, virtually ignoring his rallies (hardly any papers covered his big event in Washington Sq for example) and yet again in a state where he was energising many there is a huge mess at the polls with broken machines, affidavit voting, and voters been told incorrect things by volunteers.

All CT aside (let NYers sort that out, let’s not get caught up in promoting things that turn out to be untrue) the deck was massively stacked against Bernie.

PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ARE NOT YET COUNTED

Things will change (which may or may not move the needle, I won’t speculate either way but TYT covered it quite well albeit with a pro-Bernie slant). Voter surpression like this should never be condoned though (and it may affect both sides — not in any way claiming it is all against Bernie voters).

Hillary wins big with the older voters, those much better embedded and versed in the process. They are not going to win her a general election. They are not the ‘middle’ of the voting block she needs to turn blue in November, they are dye-in-the-wool blues who would vote D in the fall regardless. They get their news from the likes of CNN (who, lest we forget, rated Hillary an A- and Bernie a D in the NY debate, which is an offensively bias assessment). They are the ones who “don’t do their research” to borrow a quote from Hillary.

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Apparently Sanders “didn’t know what he as doing” when he voted no on Iraq :|

Do not lose hope or faith. This was always going to be the hardest primary on the calendar and I had expected a single digit loss — so whilst this is a bit wider than the exit polls suggested, it is not the disaster that the media will paint it to be. They said he had to win New York. He didn’t. He never did. A narrow loss was a win situation for Bernie, a 10-15 point loss hurts but isn’t the end of the world. With the caucuses delivering delegates in the week prior to NY, we are ‘as we were’ a week ago.

He has to win from here on out though, but it is a much easier path. He’s caught her in the national polls. More people than ever know who he is and he can’t be ignored any more. We’ve just got to connect to the voters that have still to find out. Remember the reaction he gets when people hear his message — they can hide it on TV but they can’t hide it on the Internet:

Sanders gets a standing ovation after his closing statement at the NY Debate — not shown by CNN

3 million calls were made over the weekend to New York. If you keep doing that, Bernie wins the nomination.

Chins up. There’s work to be done.