My guess is that Obama's Rasputin, Valerie Jarrett, had expected an indictment by now (Creepy Uncle Joe would be her preferred candidate) but Comey is being "careful".
Even if the Democrats somehow manage to get Clinton to quit, they aren't going to nominate Crazy Bernie. They aren't that crazy. We can guess as to how well that will go over.
And everyone thinks the Republicans have problems!
I just replied to someone that asked about Trump vs. Sanders.
But, I agree with your assessment, using the same example I used earlier: the Nixon campaign against McGovern.
Democrats created the large number of super-delegates specifically to prevent someone like McGovern from being nominated again. It was a complete blow-out, eclipsed only by Reagan's 1984 campaign.
Yes, the US has changed a lot since then -- but I don't think it's changed THAT much. The majority of baby boomers are no longer starry-eyed progressives. Yes, there's a new crop of them, but they are proportionally less than before.
We have a lot more immigrants than back then, but I think Trump can make the case that illegal immigrants really hurt LEGAL immigrants in several ways. Blacks are finally figuring this out.
There is NO WAY that Valerie Jarrett or Michelle Robinson Obama are going to sit still and allow the Clintons back into the White House. That's been clear for months.
Biden and Warren were chosen as the Democrat ticket back in October.
But, given the way the process has evolved, they need Hillary to win a majority of pledged delegates BEFORE she is arrested, so that Sanders can't be the nominee.
Even if the Democrats somehow manage to get Clinton to quit, they aren’t going to nominate Crazy Bernie. They aren’t that crazy.
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Yes, they are. They ran with a Kenyan muslim twice and won twice.
If Bernie were to become the rat nominee, at minimum, 47% of voters would vote for him—The only thing Mitt was ever right about.
He's waiting for her to officially get the Dem nomination, which needs to happen. I think that's when he'll pounce.
The question is what form will that pounce take?
One of three things is going to happen:
1)He sends a referral for indictment to Loretta Lynch and she acts on it.
2)He sends a referral for indictment to Loretta Lynch and she declines to indict.
3)He, for whatever reason, doesn't make a referral.
Here, for me, is the question for the legal eagles to answer: if he is bullied into not referring does all the evidence he's gathered remain in his possession or does it leave FBI jurisdiction? If it remains in Comey's hands how quickly after a Hillary nomination would the barrage of leaks to Fox News, CNN and the like begin. And in the absence of grand jury/indictment action he couldn't be accused of leaking grand jury testimony, could he? Someone correct me on this, but it occurs to me that the only way to protect Clinton from the flood of leaks would be to indict her, gain possession of all the evidence against her and suppress it.
In my view, she's screwed whether there's an indictment or not. If she is the nominee what percentage of Sanders supporters would automatically switch to Hillary and what percentage stays home? Do they hate her enough to not even go to the polls - the best of all possible outcomes - or do they hold their collective noses and vote for her? Given the super-delegate fix which is giving Clinton delegates she did not win(stolen from Bernie), combined with her lack of transparency in not disclosing the transcripts from her Goldman Sachs speeches makes me think they stay home. Add in the fact that she ain't black(black folks stay home) could mean that the GOP gets a huge favor if she is the nominee. The Donald Wins!
They have to wait until after she wins the nomination for her to withdraw. Otherwise, Bernie gets it. If she withdraws after her nomination is complete, the DNC gets to name the replacement - which would be the Biden-Warren ticket.