obama coalition that allowed him to win in 2008. you need the progressive left and strong support from black voters in order to beat the more blue collar coalition that hillary had back in 2008. i don t see what the path is for him to put it together. i agree with that entirely, by the way. what about the sanders capacity to show it shall to not necessarily defeat hillary clinton from the dnomination bu show weakness in the candidacy going forward in the same way pat buchanan did going after the first president bush in new hampshire. not beating him but doing well against him and opening up the cracks, opening up weaknesses in what became the bush general election campaign. it could be true. but i don t think bernie s candidacy is at all like pat buchanan s. pat s was an attack on president bush. bernie hardly ever says a negative word about hillary