It's obvious as ever why the establishment bloggers/tweets/TV pundits INSISTED mightily, over and over, that Sanders had 'no chance' of winning California: because they were scared that he did.

Their feats (and projections) are confirmed: CA is in play, baby.

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/27/479755250/entering-final-primary-stretch-c...

And both candidates are fighting to win California. Clinton wrapped up a four-day swing Friday, while Sanders is in the midst of a weeklong barnstorming of the state.

Sanders pointed out recent polls with some glee at a rally in Santa Monica earlier this week. "She's looking very nervous lately," he said. "And I don't want to get her more nervous, so if you promise not to tell her, we're going to win here in California."

Even reading the CLinton quotes from the article, it strikes me that she is ill-equipped to fight Trump in today's modern political climate. To be honest with you, I was telling my 20somethings on campus last year that Sanders was 'unelectable' because I thought there was no way a senior citizen from Vermont could get mainstream appeal in modern Amerikkka.

Happy to report that I was wrong. IN a gift from the gods, we have a self-proclaimed democratic socialist whooping ass. It's amazing! When you just forget the last few months and think about your perception of his campiaign 10 months ago, it's a big leap.

And now, even Clintonistas talking to the NYT (a reliable neoliberal rag) are expressing fears that Clinton is not 'the type' of politician that can face down the Donald.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-tru...

But early optimism that this would be an easy race is evaporating. In the corridors of Congress, on airplane shuttles between New York and Washington, at donor gatherings and on conference calls, anxiety is spreading through the Democratic Party that Mrs. Clinton is struggling to find her footing.

While she enjoys many demographic advantages heading into the fall, key Democrats say they are growing worried that her campaign has not determined how to combat her unpredictable, often wily Republican rival, to whom criticism seldom sticks and rules of decorum seem not to apply.

Mrs. Clinton is pressing ahead with a conventional campaign....

I've lost track of how many times at TOP, twitter, FB that I've pointed out (as many others have also) that Clinton's trying to be a traditional candidate in a non-traditional year. It's not that she is the Devil incarnate or the worst Democratic politician ever (Joe Manchin looks worse from where I'm sitting, that scumbag) or any of these ad hominem , identity-politics debates that Clinton apologists like to debate. It's simply that we're running an Al Gore against a better version of Dubya. For all their stupid as shit talk of a ' Nader ' happening, it's the AL GORE BEING CRAPPY NOMINEE (as well as John Kerry) that the Democrat Party seems to not be able to figure out.

Obama saved the Democrats from themselves in 2008 and beat Hillary, then McCain. If Biden had run for prez, it's hard to imagine Obama picking Clinton over him, but maybe Obama pressured him to not run. In a few years, we'll hear more details about this past year.