And this gem is quite the understatement, but so extremely relevant:

"Also, not all Democrats love Bernie’s bashing of the leadership or how he slips in and out of the party, reenlisting when an election approaches."

From the polls, it looks like those bashing Democrats have not been rewarded.

That's the problem with only believing polls that show one's candidate in a positive light and ignoring the rest. Or looking at clear outliers as the only "true" polls.

Sanders is basically where he was in May, both nationally and in some early states like Iowa, and that's with several candidates dropping out. He seems to have a ceiling of roughly 20% on a national scale this time around. That may change as the field whittles down to three or four, of course.

Someone like Warren would have to drop out, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Trump's recent insanity and Biden's perfect statement makes the case for Biden even stronger.

Thanks for bring up the fact that Bernie had a heart attack ….That there is a one in 5 chance he may readmitted to hospital for heart issues within the next 5 years …. Class Argument ….Bernie has ZERO Momentum she averts ….I guess she penned this classic before learning about Bernie's Q4 fundraising total was announced … Bernie raised 34.5 million in Q4 ..Pete 24.7 ..Joe 22.7 million dollars ….. 300,000 new donors in Q4 …..40, 000 new donors on December 31 alone ….. Thank you Froma for informing us that this is all a grand illusion ….

The polls have shown the reality for Bernie. He remains well behind Biden. Fundraising could be a collective effort of many outside influences, not anything to do with actual voters, edit, also contributing $1 repeatedly doesn't mean he gets to claim they are all donations from separate individuals, lol.

He's been within a couple of points either side of 18% nationally since May, even with several candidates dropping out of the race. He may be raising a lot of money, but so far, there's little evidence that it's generating momentum.

Joe Biden and Liz Warren have the money that they need to move ahead. Bernie outraised Hillary in 2016, but she beat him pretty soundly once voters spoke.

And many of us remember all too well how Bernie - and his supporters - acted towards Hillary in 2016.

Even had Hillary won the Electoral College vote in 2016 (she DID win the popular vote, as we all remember), I suspect that he would have primaried her in this electiion and that his supporters would have been as obnoxious to her this time around as they were then.

When voters actually begin to vote, reality should set in.

There are many reasons I would never want Sanders to represent our Democratic Party, but a heart attack two months ago with a man hitting 80 and a horrible track record of hiring good, solid, smart Democrats has me saying, no way.

Because it says what you don't want to hear?

slowly opening up more of a gap on Bernie.

" Sanders, not unlike President Trump, has a cultlike following, which means few leave him but also few join up. "

...you like lumping Bernie with trump?

...don't worry, as Bernie pulls ahead in the primaries, we'll be sucking up all that extra support...


...I'll bet your boy wishes he had some of that 'cult-like' following charisma...

...good luck, but I don't see it happening...

since he objects to that so much. Or maybe not.

Lol, "not a heck of a lot going on." We certainly see Sanders locked far behind, not just a lack of momentum, here.

Not to excuse negative -- and absolutely not the dirty, lying politics of a couple, but these numbers show why some good candidates felt forced to go negative against others to break out. And trying to appeal to decent Democrats that way was mostly like spitting into the wind -- ended up with spittle on their own faces and that's about all.

Link to tweet

They're still Americans and a large number of southern Democrats are black.