Evidently the DNC cheated to make Hillary the Presidential Candidate last election. They could do this without recourse as the DNC is a private organization. So I don't think they will change their minds or treat him fairly now.

I think Mike will get the nomination, Bernie will fall when he can't keep up financially (which is exactly what any nominee is going to get so, if Bernie can't prevail over it, we'd have lost the general). Mike is also capable of bringing along a new Senate in his wake. But I agree that Democratic Socialism, which many like to mislabel as Socialism, has reached a tipping point.

@rainmanjr

If Bloomberg gets the nomination we are doomed. He is an extremely flawed candidate and millions of people including myself will never ever vote for him. It just isn't possible. He has nothing to offer but money. That won't work. A candidate needs a message, something to offer the voters. Mike has nothing but money.

We tried a flawed centrist last time. It was colossal disaster. This time will be worse. The only way to beat Trump is to run a true populist. Someone who can get the working class in the rust belt to shift back over to the democrats. Someone to energize the youth and encourage non-voters to vote for a change. That someone is Bernie Sanders because he has something significant to offer, something beyond personal wealth and being slightly less horrible than Trump.

The play will go like this. You can vote for the "savior" or a commie! No offense intended towards Communist. Bernie will suffer from as much disinformation as possible.

@DavidLaDeau

Trump will find a way to demonize whichever candidate he faces. If he goes with the Bernie is a communist angle, it will fail because it's just so obviously false.

Some people are too ignorant to understand the difference between communism and social democracy. Those people will be voting republican regardless.

Bernie is strong with the groups of voters which HRC was weak with. The working class of the rust belt, youth voters, independents, and traditional non-voters. Bernie will turn out these groups for the democrats and defeat Trump. If it is another moderate corporatist, the vote will be suppressed and we will lose for sure.

I am looking at it from the angle of the percieved threat of "Christian Values" that seems to be the center of the fear campaign.

@DavidLaDeau Not all believers are fanatical. That percentage is not that large. If that were true he would rise much higher in the poles than his continuous average between 41 and 43 percent.

@Sticks48 I think this election will be dependent upon the religious vote. It is still the largest voting dynamic in the U.S.

@DavidLaDeau Millenials are the largest voting block. Boomers are just right behind them. Part of trump's support comes from wealthy people because of taxes.

@Sticks48 So the real question is; What percentage of Millenials are unmovable from Bernie and I don't get the impression it's bigger than the democratic Boomer/black/women segment. This is important because we're going to lose some votes either way so which one is the minimal injury?

@Sticks48 There are more millenials than Christians in the U.S.? As of 2019 there are about 80 milliion millenials and 218 million that identify as christian.