My fellow Berniecrats, Berniacs, Berners, or whatever else you call yourselves: I know today is frustrating. It was always going to be frustrating, at least through today.
Though we've lost some states today, the margins matter, and it looks like we will do better than expected in some cases. But in all, through today was always going to be our toughest slog. This is her finest hour this primary season, and that hour is coming to a close.
Now starts coming the better parts of our journey here. We need to turn out. We need to not jump to the GOP to vote against Trump like I'm hearing happened in some open primaries today - he's not going to be stoppable with our votes, however, Bernie will be stoppable without them. We need to get out to the polls when our respective states come up. We need to phone bank the crap outta GOTV. We need to canvass everywhere even the red areas.
In terms of delegates, after today, roughly 2000 delegates will have been given out with roughly 2000 more to go (not counting supers). If we can increase his margins in his friendlier states, we very much still can do this. We need to make all the states count.
So don't listen to the press or the establishment/villager blogs or the Hillary acolytes cuz they will all say this is over. By design, that is supposed to depress us and verbally beat us into line. Don't let it. Those folks are still going to show up for all the remaining states and SO SHOULD WE.
It's not over. She had an early good game, but we go all 4 quarters here. We need to make sure we show up for them all. We need to make sure we don't forget our Berniecrats in the down ticket races. We need to keep our nose to the grindstone. We need to NOT GIVE UP or IN. We can do this.
In solidarity, ~poligirl