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kleinbl00  ·  3004 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bernie Sanders just changed the Democratic Party

Mmm... I'm not entirely sure that anything can be said definitively one way or another. Those youth margins are huge and they extend out to 40.

Frankly, I'm happy to see healthy and spirited debate on the left and don't really care where it goes from here. A friend of mine who used to be a congressional aide posted a long, impassioned plea for Martin O'Malley yesterday... which to me shows that it could go either way. I'm far more excited by the fact that Trump only beat Rubio by like 2000 votes, as Rubio is just about the only plausible candidate the Republicans have right now and up until Iowa he'd been completely written off.

Clinton may end up pulling Sanders right. Sanders will definitely pull Clinton left. That, to me, isn't an existential struggle. On the Republican side, however, it's a pitched battle between demagogues and sanity and sanity just started to show up. Considering the republicans have and are projected to continue to have congressional control, taking the mandate from the batshit insane is the number one hope I have for this silly season.