According to www.msn.com/… Democratic insiders are against Bernie Sanders, even if it damages the party. I’m not surprised. I don’t know what establishment Democrats can do, though. Sanders’ emergence has laid bare the left-center split in the Democratic party.
According to polls, after Super Tuesday, Sanders will likely emerge as the only candidate who can realistically get a plurality of the delegates. At that point, the party had better coalesce around him. If Sanders’ delegate lead into the convention is 10 or 20% ahead of his nearest competitor, and yet the party nominates someone else, how can Democrats win with the “Stolen nomination” narrative? Unless the “center” can consolidate around Bloomberg or Biden, I don’t see how anyone can get close to Sanders’ total. Even I’m not excited by Biden or *shudder* Bloomberg.
So for me, I don’t see a choice. After Tuesday, I suspect it will be Bernie or bust, and it will be up to the party to fall in line, and the voters to decide if they want Bernie or Trump. For me that choice is easy.
On the other hand if Sanders keeps winning, but never tops 25~30% of the electorate, then that probably means 60-70% of the party is voting against him. Are Democrats likely to turn out in winning numbers, when 60% of them likely preferred a different nominee? I don’t know if Sanders is eloquent enough to persuade that many right-leaning Democrats to pull the lever for him.