It has been a tough few weeks for Bernie Sanders. Before the debate, his numbers were soaring, his crowds were growing, and there was a palpable and almost arrogant sense of confidence among his supporters and inside his organization where they talked magnanimously about considering Hillary Clinton for the vice-presidential spot on the ticket. But since that night in Las Vegas, things have changed and as Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg reports, while the:
And maybe so. But Sanders does not, evidently, plan on going quietly. As Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas of the AP report
A big question here is … how tough will he get. Ms. Clinton, as is known by all, has what are known in the trade as “high negatives,” and
“They still have objections,” said Margie Omero, a Democratic pollster who helped organize the event. “There are some obstacles for her to get past.”
Sanders will soon need to decide how much he wants to take advantage of those obstacle. He did, after all, give her that pass on her “damned e-mails.”