2020, the election campaigns have begun

[Labster]

It's kind of more arcane than that. Bernie is not too far left for the center of the Democratic Party. Most Bernie supporters are, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. Some people in the party don't like Bernie because he didn't do enough to elect Hillary in the last election. Some don't like how he has been an independent all his life, then uses the party when he needs it. But a lot of people inside the party are not concerned that Bernie's policies are out of sync with their own ideology, but that he he is too radical to appeal to independents.

But independents are a weird group. I've spoken to enough of them who voted Trump, would said they would have voted Bernie had he made it to the general election. The preferences aren't necessarily left-right -- a lot of independents vote on a outsider-corrupt insider axis. Still others vote for "throw the bums out" for whoever happens to be the bums currently in power. Some are true moderates, in the American sense; selecting Bernie may suppress voter turnout among that category.

I'm okay with a brokered convention. It worked for more than a century, it can work again now. But I'm also a big Warren supporter and I'm just waiting for her chance to shine. But you have to understand that among the Democratic Party base, they would choose a ham sandwich for president if they thought that its meatiness would defeat Donald John Trump.