Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Primary Schedule ‘Distorts Reality’

[workinclasszero]

Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Primary Schedule ‘Distorts Reality’
Sam Frizell @Sam_Frizell 6:43 PM ET

"I think that having so many Southern states go first kind of distorts reality"

Bernie Sanders told “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore at a taping Wednesday evening that scheduling Southern states early in the Democratic primary “distorts reality.”

Black voters make up a disproportionate share of the Democratic electorate in those Southern states, and constitute a voting bloc in which Sanders has consistently underperformed.

The Vermont senator has been more successful in smaller, whiter and more liberal states like Maine, Washington and Minnesota. Sanders has also been able to win a slightly larger portion of black voters in northern states like Michigan and Illinois, exit polls showed.

http://time.com/4293069/bernie-sanders-says-democratic-primary-schedule-distorts-reality/?xid=tcoshare

Sanders wants to disenfranchise the base of the democratic party!

[RandySF]

1. Really?

Is there a parallel universe in which the South is not part of the country?

[workinclasszero]

2. In Bernieland I guess

[RandySF]

3. The Peoples Republic

[dlwickham]

4. and Sanders knows all about distorted reality

[workinclasszero]

5. He should because..

that's all he and his bros have!

[spooky3]

15. good one!

[NanceGreggs]

6. There's no "distortion of reality" here, Bernie.

The reality is that you couldn't win those states - and it wouldn't have mattered if they were first or last. You wouldn't have won them in any event.

Oh, and sorry for using the word "reality" - which seems to be something you can't comprehend.

[Cha]

25. Yeah, BS used "reality" like he had a passing reference to what it actually means. lol

It's damn sure if he had won the Southern States.. he wouldn't be whining about them being "first" now.

[johnp3907]

7. Bernzaro world.

[bellicosecello]

8. Worse and worse

I gave Sen. Sanders the benefit of the doubt that the divisive and sneeringly racist talk aimed at southern voters and the large black populations there were his surrogates speaking out without his OK. To hear him say this is a kick in the teeth. I support Hillary but felt Sen. Sanders could at least be reasonable and gracious toward his fellow Americans, even if they decided not to support him. Yeesh.

[LuvLoogie]

9. It's bullshit. Feel free to copy and paste my listing

Of the primaries through March.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1577860

[spooky3]

18. thanks - and I can tell you that most Northern Virginians consider this "mid-Atlantic" rather than

the south. Southerners probably also see us that way.

Maryland also is technically the "south" because it is south of the Mason-Dixon line, but I would be surprised if most Maryland residents considered themselves "Southerners."

But it's all moot. Sanders is going to have a tough time finding a way to dismiss the results from NY, PA and MD.

[Cha]

26. Thank you for that, Luv..

[Rose Siding]

10. How would he know? NYDN: Bernie Sanders a fantasist who’s at passionate war with reality

[George II]

11. The order in which the states have voted hasn't changed significantly in a long time.

He's been dissing southern black states for months now. Where does this guy come off telling DEMOCRATS how to run their primaries when he hasn't even registered as a Democrat every in his life?

As far as voting, he went more than half his life without EVER voting (first voted at 41 years old), so he's not exactly the expert on voting.

[spooky3]

16. yeah, if only we had representative states like Wyoming first...

[Cha]

22. We had Iowa.. but he couldn't pull that off.

[LuvLoogie]

19. Is that true? Never even voted until he was 41? And yet

A member of the You're Not Good Enough party?

[George II]

20. True - the first time he voted was when he first ran for office at the age of 41.

[LuvLoogie]

23. He's an autocrat then.

[George II]

24. That's a nice way to put it.

[fleabiscuit]

12. That's a nitwit thing to say. He's looking to get romped now even after his 'surge' from caucuses.

Reversed he was have been blown out by now. To bad it didn't go that route I say.

[Starry Messenger]

13. Did Wilmore just let him say that?

I had to stop watching his show, too much Hillary snark and no balance the other way.

[Sparkly]

14. I never thought he'd be disappointing

But he surprises me more and more each day.

It's a shame. Really.

[ismnotwasm]

17. What the fuck? Whose reality?

I'm so done with this shit.

[Cha]

21. Brawawaaaaa.. bernie Whining again.. does he ever not whine?! If he had won those Southern

states we wouldn't be hearing him whine, would we?

Thank, workin!

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. Well, BS you knew that (or should have) before you jumped into the race. I can't tell you how....

offended I am, both as a Southerner and an AA, by his racial cluelessness. Hiring a Black Lives Matters activist sure hasn't helped him, in fact I think it has enabled him. Perhaps we should only allow white America to participate in the democratic process. And while we're at it, why don't we just bring back Jim Crow? Would that make things better for BS? He's been using that dogwhistle for quite a while now, but usually couches it under the umbrella of "identity politics".

[book_worm]

28. All those white caucus states in a row this month also distorts reality.