1. Bernie Sanders
Can he “Bern” down his ceiling?Sanders won New Hampshire with 25.7 percent of the vote, following up on a second-place finish in Iowa in which he was actually more caucus participants’ first choice than delegate-allocation winner Pete Buttigieg. The next test will be Nevada, where the powerful Culinary Union—the nation’s most locally sourced, farm-to-table collective bargaining group—has been attacking Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan on the grounds that it would require members to give up their negotiated health care benefits. (Nevada holds its caucuses on Feb. 22; based on recent precedent, we can expect results in the 30th century.) So what does Sanders need to do? As much as the Surge loves “sticking it” to Bernie-skeptical MSM pundits, it’s true that he didn’t dominate New Hampshire, a maverick-loving state that borders his own, and as Elizabeth Warren already knows, his single-payer plan is going to be targeted going forward with bazookas and blowtorches by roughly 75 percent of remaining Democratic candidates and 100 percent of status quo–loving United States business interests. If he’s going to win a plurality of delegates and avoid a shitshow of a contested convention, he needs to start bringing in more college-educated and older voters, and to show his strength with Latino voters in the first state giving him the chance to. Which he might! So, first place in the Surge.
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