The advantages of consistently beating the opposing party's frontrunner in polls nationwide have a built-in advantage, an edge, some power -- and Bernie Sanders knows this. He knows that, while Hillary Clinton is causing pundits and party bosses to bite their nails, he offers a true... alternative. And Sanders will take that argument and use it for influence, to re-shape the Democratic platform as long as the waves allow him to ride the spotlight.

The advantages of consistently beating the opposing party's frontrunner in polls nationwide have a built-in advantage, an edge, some power -- and Bernie Sanders knows this. He knows that, while Hillary Clinton is causing pundits and party bosses to bite their nails, he offers a true... alternative. And Sanders will take that argument and use it for influence, to re-shape the Democratic platform as long as the waves allow him to ride the spotlight.



"The establishment determined who the anointed candidate would be before the voters got in the process," Sanders has said. "That is a very bad idea and an idea we intend to change at the convention.”

Clinton's inability to maintain her advantage over the GOP's likely nominee have led to unflattering headlines in recent days such as "Hillary Still Can't Explain Why She Should Be President," "Explaining Hillary Clinton’s Lost Ground in the Polls," and "Clinton hopes to avoid ending primary season with an epic loss in California."

Meanwhile, Sanders's argument for staying in the race -- and the power propelling his campaign -- can be explained in one graph:

It is the same scheme that John Kasich employed as his embattled campaign struggled to wrest any delegates out of competitions past Ohio: If he consistently wins in polling against the opposition's leader, he ought to be allowed the superdelegates required to put him over to win the nomination.

Whether or not those superdelegates are listening, however, is anyone's guess.

Meanwhile, Clinton's campaign has deployed former President Bill Clinton who told a California crowd over the weekend, “We have to deal with this election, which is being fueled by the anger of people who feel left out and left behind.” The Washington Post reports that the Clinton campaign has opened eight offices across the Golden State and is phone banking in seven different languages in an effort to stave off the insurgency started by Sanders.

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Sanders is doubling down on the themes that have helped him stay in the race as far as California. His appeal is part of a plan to help a record number of Democrats turn out to polls in two weeks -- 250 million.

Right now, Clinton leads the wild-haired senator on 2,293 to 1,536 on the shoulders of 525 superdelegates who are unbound to any candidate and can switch sides at the party convention in July.

For more on Sanders's hopes by the numbers, here is what's being touted across Twitter:

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