So last night was pretty tough for Bernie Sanders.
Hillary Clinton won 4 of the 5 primary contests at play in Super Tuesday Number 3, and leads in a fifth contest in Missouri that’s still too close to call. She also added to her already significant lead in delegates.
The mainstream media, of course, has now declared the Democratic race for president over, and Hillary Clinton is now once again the “inevitable” nominee, and they couldn’t be happier.
This is probably the reason not one of the major networks covered Bernie’s speech live last night. They’re already writing him off as a cute, but harmless, afterthought.
But here’s the thing: this race isn’t over -- far from it.
Bernie still has path to the nomination, and a strong one at that.
Over the next few weeks, the
primary schedule shifts to the West and upper Midwest where Bernie has already had success and where he’s favored to pick up even more victories.
If Bernie manages to win by big margins in states like Wyoming or Wisconsin, he can
whittle away at Clinton’s delegate lead, which, despite what you might hear on the mainstream media, only grew by a net total of 57 delegates last night.
But more importantly, success out West and in the Midwest could win Bernie some much-needed momentum and media coverage, which will mean a lot when voters in big states like Pennsylvania, New York, and California head to the polls later on in the year.
What happens after that is anyone’s guess, but in the wake of what happened last week in Michigan, when Bernie won the largest primary election upset in history, there’s no reason to think the “impossible” couldn’t happen again.
The experts and pundits in the establishment media industrial complex have written Bernie off before, and they’ve been wrong about pretty much everything this election.
So we should take what they say with a gigantic grain of salt.
