{"id":11698,"date":"2016-05-24T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:02:24","slug":"why-democrats-should-be-begging-sanders-to-stay-in-through-california-bradcast-5242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11698","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats Should be BEGGING Sanders to Stay in Through California: ‘BradCast’ 5\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the Bernie Sanders campaign files for a ‘recanvass’ of Kentucky’s exceedingly close May 17th Democratic Primary; Some very good news for voters out of a federal court in Ohio; And an explanation for why Democrats in California should be thanking the Vermont Senator for staying in the race through the Golden State’s Presidential Primary on June 7th. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

First up, as Washington state Republicans hold their Primary today (with no surprises expected, even as we explain how one could<\/i> occur), we report on the breaking news of Sanders’ request for a “recanvass”<\/a> in Kentucky, where Hillary Clinton reportedly defeated him by just 1,924 votes — less than one-half of 1% out of nearly half a million votes cast — last week, according to the computer-tallied results<\/a>. We explain how a “recanvass” is decidedly different from a “recount”, and how it remains the case that, thanks to the number of votes cast in the Bluegrass State on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems, we can never<\/i> actually know who the voters really<\/i> preferred there. The “recanvass”, scheduled for this Thursday, is unlikely to change that or<\/i> the reported results, as it will largely be little more than a review of the already-existing electronic tally.<\/p>\n

Then, a federal court in Ohio finds the shortening of the Early Voting period and “Golden Week” (a period of time when Buckeye State voters used to be able to both register to vote and<\/i> cast a ballot on the same day) by state Republicans, is in violation<\/a> of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. District Court has ordered those days to be restored<\/a> for the General Election, even as this case and a number of others filed by Democrats and voting rights advocates around the country may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the vacancy that Republicans refuse to fill is likely to result in continuing<\/a> chaos and confusion over U.S. voting rights.<\/p>\n

Next, I’m joined by David Atkins<\/b> of Washington Monthly<\/i>, to discuss at least two reasons<\/a> why, despite so much whining from Democratic Party establishment apparatchiks, it remains very important for Democrats, both in California and nationally, that Sanders remains in the Presidential race at least through the party’s Primary on June 7. Atkins explains how the contest has helped lead to skyrocketing voter registrations for Democrats out here and, as importantly, how the state’s “Top Two” primary system could results in disaster for a number of U.S. House races if Dem turnout is depressed. Sanders, Atkins argues, is doing the party a tremendous favor by staying in and continuing to fight the good fight.<\/p>\n

He also goes on to ring in on the internecine battle between Sanders and Clinton supporters and on whether he believes the party will ever<\/i> be able to survive its latest outbreak of (sometimes “messy”<\/a>) democracy.<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, which includes, among much more, evidence that, while Donald Trump claims<\/em> to believe climate change is a “hoax”, his very own companies believe otherwise…<\/p>\n

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