WARNING: This post contains math, which can be very dangerous for people with opinions that are based primarily on corporate “news.” Side effects may include critical thinking, hope, and outrage toward formerly-beloved TV channels & papers. Proceed with extreme caution.

Greetings, my friends! As I promised, in “The After-MATH: West Virginia,” I have returned to talk about the upcoming primaries and, quite unlike the NY Times & other dishonest media outlets, I shall be providing real numbers, citing sources, and generally being a pain in the @$$ to the manufacturers of our consent because they hate it when you use numbers.

It is Thursday, May 12th, we’ve just come out of our victory in West Virginia, and I thought I would take advantage of this moment to provide you all with a bird’s-eye view of the real numbers that we will be working with as the race continues. I hope this post will answer most of your number-related questions (you know? the ones the media refuses to talk about?) and even provide you with some good-lookin’ numbers that you’ve never seen before — but, first, let’s re-cap.

For those of you who are just now entering the conversation, I suggest you start with the first article — “This Is What Will Happen At the Democratic Convention” — then, proceed as ye wish (all of the Math vs. Media articles, in chronological order, are listed HERE).

How Are We Doing ?

As I’ve already covered in the latest “After-MATH,” our current target for the remaining pledged delegates stands at 65.6% and, although the target has slipped about 1% from our original 64.4%, our recent string of victories has endowed us with the momentum that we need as we go into the last May primaries on the 17th. When we take those states (yes, I believe we will take them & I’ll soon explain why), we will have won literally every state that voted in May and we will be going into the all-important June primaries with a lot of momentum! (Meanwhile, Clinton will have only a single, shriveled delegate from May, as a souvenir…)

Meanwhile, as Don Ford explains quite painlessly and thoroughly on his website, many activists have been working tirelessly to flood the state conventions with Sanders’ supporters, netting us quite a few extra delegates. This is the reason that you keep hearing about us “flipping” states, like Nevada (where 20% of Clintons delegates couldn’t be bothered to show up) and it’s also the reason that we bagged a few extra pledged delegates in Washington and Colorado, recently. Take notice, too: every delegate that we gain at the state conventions not only gives Sanders +1 but it takes a delegate from Clinton’s total, as well. That means that it’s really a net gain of 2 delegates! You may feel that these gains are too small to worry about — but I would remind you that this is a tight race and, as the Daoist Sage Lao-Zu said:

“Drop by drop, a bucket is filled.”

For more information on the state conventions or if you’d like to help with our convention strategies (yes, you!), I strongly recommend visiting Don’s website.

Looking Ahead!

Now, let’s get to business — we must keep working to win the $#@% out of Oregon and Kentucky! No one ever said this would be easy, folks. We’ve reached the “all hands on deck” stage of the primaries — it has been an uphill battle from the start and it’s not going to get easier but we can — I repeat, we can — win. No matter what the talking heads are saying — I’m telling you that we can win and (unlike the talking heads) I show my work! You can decide who’s more trustworthy…

Because they’ve quit reporting reality, now would be a great time to sell your TVs and donate the proceeds to the Sanders campaign. Please, my friends, do not forget to donate! Even $1 matters! Whatever you can (I know that some of us are very poor), please donate it! We must remember that Sanders does not have super-PACs! He does not have friends on Wall Street — and that’s why we love him! All Sanders has — is you.

And if you can’t donate money, donate your time! Phone-bank! Text-bank! Canvass! Share the good-news on social media! We can’t all do everything — but every one of us can do something. Find out what that is and do it.

Alright, back to the numbers.

Oregon!

First of all, please pay no attention to those particularly dishonest articles claiming that Clinton leads in Oregon — As I explained last night, these are all based off of a shady “survey” of 302 people. Anyway, if you’re interested in the details of the deception, I’ve thoroughly debunked it in this Public Service Announcement.

My friends, Oregon is looking better by the minute! While there are no reliable polls in Oregon, there are many reasons to feel very optimistic about Oregon. The demographics are nearly identical to our neighbor, Washington, where Sanders won with nearly 73%. On top of that promising baseline, Oregon has had a 42% increase in new voter-registrations this year, compared to the 2008 Obama-Clinton race (when Oregon overwhelmingly voted for the more-progressive Obama). In addition, an unprecedented, record-breaking number of already-registered voters have switched their registrations — and 76.3% of those switched from unaffiliated to democrat. And I suspect you already know exactly why.

Last and, perhaps most importantly, the birds overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders, here in Oregon (no joke, birds are a YUGE demographic in Oregon) — and not just the charming lil’ buddy that flew up to Sanders’ podium in Portland! Incidentally, here’s a picture of a little #birdie that I took, right next to the mile-long line to get into the Sanders rally in Salem, Oregon:

Alright, alright — enough about birds! Let’s move on to…

Kentucky!

Yet again, we will be charging into a state that has very little polling data and — that being the case — it is difficult to know much for certain. What we do know, however, looks very, very promising…

For instance, not only has Sanders raised more money in Kentucky than Clinton — but Sanders has also raised more than every candidate in both parties for the last three months. In addition to these surging donations, the demographics of the Bluegrass State seem to be very favorable for us, if West Virginia is any indication. Kentucky, just like West Virginia (which Clinton has just finished losing with 35.8% of the vote & 0% of the counties!), Kentucky is semi-southern, predominately white, largely rural — and Kentucky is coal country. Which, I can’t help but notice, is unfortunate for Clinton and all of the times that she “misspoke.”

“…We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business!”

~Hillary Clinton, March 13th 2016, CNN Town Hall

So… yep. And, uh, good luck with that one, Hill-Dawg.

As usual, once Clinton realized that saying something else would get her more votes, she later told the poor, working-class, and already-underemployed people of West Virginia that she “misspoke.” Again. To which, West Virginia (quite sensibly) replied, “Cool story, bro.” Considering the recent results of the May 10th West Virginia primary, one might suspect (or even bet money) that Clinton will meet a similar defeat in the Bluegrass State. But — my friends — let’s aim for a bit more than similar. Let’s get on those phones and let’s crush it.

But wait — there’s more!

Just like Oregon, Kentucky has also broken its records for new voter-registrations this year (also, note that new voters were disproportionately democrat) — and, statistically speaking, record-breaking numbers of young, newly-registered democrats are always good news for Bernie Sanders.

…And Beyond.

Now is the time to focus on the impending primaries in Oregon and Kentucky — yet, we mustn’t forget that, after these, we will have 3 weeks to prepare the campaign for the June 7th primaries. Now, I don’t want to freak everyone out but you should probably start thinking of June 7th as… Judgment Day.

[cue the dramatic music]

Regretfully, I must now be both uncharacteristically and absolutely serious (for a moment) because it is of the utmost and severest importance that every single one of us understands what I am about to say.

With all of my soul, I sincerely stand by what I’ve said from the very beginning: I believe that Bernie Sanders can win the democratic nomination and, if that happens, I believe that he will be the next president of the United States. This is not just about Bernie.

We. Are. Bernie.

And I believe that we can win. You have my word that I will stand and march with all of you until the very end.

But I must warn all of you, now: do not underestimate the importance of this time leading up to June 7th — Bernie Sanders cannot do this alone. We are going to need all of us — every last one — to win. These next few weeks need to be our best of the campaign — this is when it all counts!

This will not work if you choose to sit this one out.

This will not work if don’t donate.

This will not work if we don’t phone-bank.

This will not work if we don’t volunteer — and this will not work if we do not march.

Every one of you must understand that this means YOU.

If you do not help, we will fail.

Do not look around you for others who will do it — you must understand that there is no one who can stand in your place to do what you could have done.

There is certainly something — however small — that all of us can do. Some will do much and others will do less but the most important thing is that we all do something. If you can donate — even if it’s only a few dollars — than do so! Many of us can donate — some of us can’t. Some can go canvassing and some can volunteer their time in other ways (you don’t even need the campaign’s permission — just go!). Some of us can get on the phone for an hour each day. Some of us can organize. And some of us can write.

And all of us can share these kinds of articles and resources on social media. Talk to your friends, your families, strangers! Reach out to people who are undecided, to Trump-supporters, and even to Clinton-supporters! But do so with kindness and do so with knowledge — don’t fight with them. Show them how we are fighting for them, too. We need to make everyone feel welcome to join us.

If we all do this, together — if you do this — we will have already won. Our solidarity is what the party elites fear the most — let’s show them that we know how to use it.

And One Simple Request, Before You Go

I know that a lot of you will read this. I’ve had almost a million views on this website in the last week and who-knows-how-many views on the hundreds of blogs and independent news sites that have been reprinting these articles.

I want to ask ALL OF YOU (yes, you — that means you!) to take 30 seconds out of your life to leave a short comment below, telling us all one thing that you’ll commit to doing to help Bernie Sanders become our nominee in November.

It can be anything, however big or small, $1 or $2,700, 1 hour of phone-banking or 20 hours — it could even be as simple as “I’ll share this article right now.” Please, my friends — take a few seconds and do this. Each one will mean a whole lot to me and — if every one of you commented — it might break the server but I think it would mean a whole lot to a whole lot of people.†

Thank you.

In solidarity,

John Laurits #SeeYouInPhilly

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