Fairy tales can come true, especially if you're young at heart...
Wait a minute. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. One caucus in a cornfield and a single primary win in the hard rock state, do not a president make. Remember that, just a few months ago, Bernie was invisible. When he finally showed up on the radar of the talking cable heads, he was dismissively referred to as a fringe candidate, a “socialist”, someone who shouldn't be, and certainly wasn't, taken seriously. Even now, days after his crushing victory in New Hampshire, he is still being discounted by a myriad of media “experts” who cite the long history of the Clintons in the South, “who have the Black vote locked up,” as well as an impressive ground game already in action in South Carolina. Since several southern states primaries follow closely behind South Carolina, the experts are forecasting the trouncing of Bernie in those states, as well as in the Nevada caucus. Since they have already decided that Bernie does not have the money to continue past that point, in their eyes, it's Game Over for him.
I, however, don't believe that. Any man who receives 5.2 million dollars in $34 average contributions within eighteen hours after winning the Granite State's primary is a force to be reckoned with. Although Hillary seemingly has every imaginable advantage, loads of money, name recognition, a famous husband, endorsements from everyone (including Wall Street) and, finally, a supposed lock on the Black vote, without which it would be very difficult to win the presidency in November. But if that were all true, she would have won on Tuesday night in New Hampshire.
I, for one, believe Bernie, although he will probably lose in South Carolina, will do better than the polls predict (giving him a relatively low bar to hurtle), and will improve his standing in the other southern states. Following those, his momentum will help him amass the numbers he needs in later primaries. Let's note that, once he has won the nomination, he has until November to convince the Black vote he is the better person.
In November, Bernie will face Governor John Kasich who found that the “establishment”, which hates Trump and Cruz (and for some very good reasons), began backing him after Rubio showed he was simply too young and inexperienced to play with the big boys. Their decision was made easier by Jeb Bush, so desperate he brought out his 90 year old mother to campaign for him (the one who famously said last year, “Two Bushes in the White House is enough”). The last nail in Jeb's coffin was put there when he started running a television ad featuring the worst president in the history of the United States telling us what a great guy his younger brother is.
Kasich, a conservative right-to-lifer, whose playbook in Ohio was identical to that of nearly every other Republican governor, doesn’t stand a chance against Bernie.
And so, this fairy tale will come true. I hope.