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Is there a joke here? This isn't even one of those "People who I disagree with are dum." cartoons, like what are the girls doing wrong?
Maybe the whole Bernie or Bust thing that young people are getting all high and mighty about. Statistics show that the gap between Hillary and Trump is narrowing. However, it is not because Hillary is a weak candidate, but because of Bernie or Bust. Hillary does as well as Bernie with
true independents (those who have voted for both republicans and democrats and are the "swing voters"). This stat is also misleading as Hillary is a known figure, but Bernie hasn't really been in the attack spotlight, and his favorables are likely misleadingly high. To the contrary,
the GOP and it's operatives have been doing their best to help Bernie so as to collaterally hurt Hillary. However, Hillary isn't picking up the democratic-leaning independents* (that skew Sanders) in those head-to-head polls, indicating a Bernie or Bust effect. I see the cartoon as her telling those people to accept that Bernie lost** and to start supporting Hillary in preparation for the general.
*Most independents are independents in name only. They're actual
partisans by a different name and repeatedly vote for the same party in every election.
**He isn't mathematically eliminated yet, but I stated back in
February that the polls for the Super Tuesday indicated that Clinton would win the nomination there. The polls showed that Hillary would go up by about 150 delegates, which would be very difficult to overcome with the proportional allocation of delegates--Clinton could not overcome Obama's 150 delegate lead in 2008. Those Super Tuesday polls underestimated Hillary's win because they underestimated black turnout in the South. As such, Clinton went up by a touch over 200. Sure enough, Clinton's lead has never fallen below the 200 delegate lead she got from Super Tuesday, and at this point it's too little too late as Bernie would have to win the remaining contests by
these margins (which he hasn't done in any of those states), and then win 73% of the popular vote in California. Additionally, while I say he lost, those people who live in states that have yet to vote have every right to vote for him. They should vote for him, do their best to help him win, but accept Hillary if Bernie doesn't win.
