No Democrat has ever won the popular vote in the first three Presidential primaries unless you count Bernie Sanders.
In Nevada Sanders somehow swept the votes of the Amerindians, the Filipinos, the Asians, the Hispanics and people of color (POC) in general. He also finished first among white people. That left little for the other candidates to share (Joe Biden did just edge out Sanders for most African-American votes).
For some time I have been arguing that there is one lane, not two lanes, in the Democratic party. The polling evidence suggests that if one of the stop-Bernie candidate like Amy Klobuchar drops out, many of her votes shift to Sanders. There is no current candidate Sanders cannot beat (the polls say).
Among voters in Nevada who called themselves moderates, Sanders won.
As an independent outsider, Sanders expresses the outrage many voters feel at being ignored, lied to and cheated over decades of rule by Wall Street and its bots in the two major parties.
If he wins the Presidency, Sanders will have to work with Nancy Pelosi and so on. That will mean compromises.
tRump will accuse Sanders (or any Dem) of being a socialist. Sanders will reply, "Whatever." He won't burst into tears.
And what about Harry Reid? When Hillary ran the first time, Reid figured she would lose to a Republican, and he drafted Barack Obama. This time around, many of Reid's sharpest people in Nevada helped manage Sander's campaign in the state.
Who knew about Harry Reid?
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