{"id":4618,"date":"2020-03-18T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2020-03-18T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:08:35","slug":"sanders-needs-to-concede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4618","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Needs to Concede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just consider the basics of the current situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s been <em>consistently<\/em> losing primary elections, even losing &#8220;must-win&#8221; ones such as Michigan and Washington.<\/li>\n<li>Even where he&#8217;s won recently (e.g. California), he&#8217;s done worse than expected.<\/li>\n<li>He debated Biden one-on-one, and Biden did a good job.<\/li>\n<li>The coronavirus crisis is making it unsafe to conduct in-person elections.<\/li>\n<li>It is not going to be possible to shift to all vote-by-mail elections on a notice short enough to complete most primaries.<\/li>\n<li>Sanders faces <em>very<\/em> long odds; Biden is virtually a shoo-in to win the nomination at this point.<\/li>\n<li>In past primaries, when a race has gotten to this stage, the obvious loser has traditionally conceded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the debate point, that was really the one reason why Sanders should have stayed in up until this point. We wouldn&#8217;t want to run a candidate sure to melt down in a one-on-one debate, and verbal skills have never exactly been Biden&#8217;s strong suit.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Biden&#8217;s mettle has been tested, and we have a batch of post-debate primary results demonstrating that not only Yours Truly thinks Biden passed, that reason no longer exists. It&#8217;s time to concede, Bernie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just consider the basics of the current situation: He&#8217;s been consistently losing primary elections, even losing &#8220;must-win&#8221; ones such as Michigan and Washington. Even where he&#8217;s won recently (e.g. California), he&#8217;s done worse than expected. He debated Biden one-on-one, and Biden did a good job. The coronavirus crisis is making it unsafe to conduct in-person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}