In theory, you might be right. However, the history of the US has seen many political parties come and go. It is survival of the fittest. If these 'Progressives' feel that they are strong enough to change the Democratic Party from within, then they should be string enough to compete with the Democratic Party from the outside. If not, it will be a failed experiment.
There are always going to be people who are not happy with the way things are. The healthiest way to deal with this is to let them leave the nest and make their own way in the world.
If they don't, they are going to get more and more frustrated. Change can't happen without trying new things. It's harder to make change from within than it is to create something brand new.
That's how so many social/political organizations have come about already.
Besides, there is no assurances that these 'Progressives' will vote for the Democrat in November anyway.
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My chosen metric is stop insulting other Democratic candidates and the Democratic party in general.
You're obviously not going to do that, so I'll just watch it play out again just like it did before.
And to be clear -- even if Sanders wins the primaries and loses the general, it's still a loss just like last time.
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To address that...
If you want any realistic chance at winning a general election?
It had better be about that. Unless you have a bunch of voters from other groups that you can replace the ones you might lose if Latinos supports Sanders and he isn't the nominee?
You had better at least have something like a plan to address that.
Elizabeth Warren’s Allies Claim ‘Erasure’ As They Seek To Reignite Campaign: Ms. Warren’s backers, convinced her message is being ignored, see a path forward — and they say writing her off would be a mistake.
RENO, Nev. — A bad month for Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts keeps getting worse. She finished in a respectable third place in the Iowa caucuses, but a results-tallying meltdown muddled what could have been a good evening. New Hampshire was better at logistics but worse for her candidacy, considering she ended up closer to candidates who dropped out after the primary than those who finished on top.
On Sunday, Ms. Warren had a cold so severe it threatened to sideline one of the country’s most famous persisters.
“People told me, ‘You have to cancel your day in Reno,’” Ms. Warren said, hoarse and barely audible. “I said, ‘Reno has been left out of way too many conversations.’”
Ms. Warren and her team feel the same. She is not cratering or surging, neither the most likely to win nor at risk of immediately dropping out, a 40-degree day surrounded by candidates who are hot and cold. Her staff members and plenty of allies argue that as a result, she is being ignored by the news media and some voters during a pivotal moment in the primary, and she is at risk of becoming less relevant in the nominating process — something her campaign is now trying to reverse.
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Nope. The latest poll showing Sanders with a total lead nationally shows him with a plurality of women voters (24%), but Biden still with a plurality of African Americans (31%).
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-cont...2002171446.pdf
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That poll shows Bernie with more support from women than any other candidate. Black people aren't the only only POC in the country.
Biden leads among African-Americans but Bernie has the most diverse base overall. Your poll shows Bernie having 34% of the non-white vote, that is 13 points higher than Biden who is number 2.
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