How could Bernie Sanders still be whooping and braying and rousing his troops on her back fender as late as the California primary? (Which he’ll probably win — she’s up two points in the latest polls but there’s been a Golden State surge in voter registrations, always a sure sign that the power of Bernie is growing.)
Sensing that a loss in the country’s most populated state would be a devastating last-minute rebuke to a campaign that should have been over months ago, Hillary (who originally planned to be closer to home in New Jersey, which also holds a primary on Tuesday) is barnstorming California along with her husband: The Bill and Hill show is doing 30 campaign events in five days.
Sanders supporters are apoplectic because they know if Clinton can’t win fairly, she’ll cheat: By using superdelegates, a k a party hacks, a k a the folks who, as a Huffington Post writer named Seth Abramson recently put it, “exist for only one purpose: to overturn, if necessary, the popular-vote and delegate-count results.”
Democratic pollster Doug Schoen pointed out in the Wall Street Journal this week that Sanders could even still prevail at the convention by demanding a rule change that would push superdelegates to vote for the candidate who won their state.
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