“Who’s ready for a little political revolution?!?”
Monte Jarvis, the Oregon state director for the Bernie Sanders campaign, is standing before a small crowd of volunteers and staffers. It’s the morning of the Oregon’s primary, and young people in jean jackets and Bernie T-shirts have gathered in a squat storefront on a busy street in Portland. They’re preparing to hang flyers on doors throughout the city, reminding people to get their ballots in by the 8 p.m. deadline.
“You are the heart of soul of this political revolution,” Jarvis tells them. “Bernie has always said this is not about him. It’s about us.”
Pundits, pollsters, and politicos claim to know how this story ends—they’ve declared this political patient terminal. Dead man campaigning. The math just isn’t there for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Heading into the Oregon primary, Clinton had 1,716 pledged delegates to Sanders’s 1,433, and 524 superdelegates to his 40. As of Monday, in order to surpass Clinton, Sanders needed to win almost 90 percent of the remaining delegates, according to the L.A. Times…
