Too close to call, too early to say. That's just the latest poll and it shows a close race, nothing more. It will be Hillary vs. Trump and we'll find out in a few months what the outcome will be.
I'll say it's early. The primaries aren't even over yet, although the conclusions aren't going to change: Bernie isn't getting the nomination, and he knows it, and he's not doing a third party run -- he's already begun to make noises about uniting behind Hillary to defeat Trump, and getting some of his ideas into the Democratic platform. And Trump will not beat Hillary in the general -- in order to win over those mythical Democrat and independent voters that supposedly are going to go to him, he'll have to stop appealing to the wild-eyed Know-Nothings that are propelling him to the nomination.
And which GOP might that be? With this Trump fetish in full bloom now, I have no idea what GOP voters stand for. Certainly not the ideals that Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Bush, etc stand for.
I think Bernie does believe in it. Bernie's main problem was that he wasn't Hillary -- that, and he was too far left even for the party. I didn't think Trump would win, but anyone who tracked my posts on the subject through the summer would know that I never said he couldn't win, unlike all the "experts" and pundits. I think that's part of what's fueling the angst on the left -- all those people are now questioning how they could have been so wrong when they're obviously so smart.
