http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/2/wesley-pruden-bernies-sanders-could-upset-hillary-/print/There’s upset in the air in California
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 2, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The acrid odor of Democratic panic, as real as the aroma of burned flesh and cordite on a battlefield, hangs over California in a dark cloud of confusion and uncertainty. "This is how it smelled in '64," says a stunned Democratic observer in Sacramento, "with [Barry] Goldwater charging and [Nelson] Rockefeller on the run."
This time Hillary Clinton has the Rockefeller role, with Bernie Sanders in passionate pursuit as the stand-in Barry Goldwater. The point is that suddenly the Democratic world is about to be turned upside down, and everyone is plundering precedents to make sense of it. Only weeks ago Hillary was so far ahead — leading by up to 60 points in some public-opinion polls — that the notion than Bernie could catch her was mere fantasy.
A new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, conducted by Marist, demonstrates the impossible, on the crucial weekend before the Tuesday vote, that the race is statistically tied, with Hillary leading by only 2 points, 49 percent to 47 percent among most likely voters. From so far behind that he might as well have been campaigning in New Zealand, the 74-year-old Socialist Santa Claus from the kingdom of free stuff has pulled even and surges for the finish with the momentum.
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