Bernie or Hillary for the Democratic Nomination

Bernie Sanders, one of the potential democratic nominees. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

The Democratic presidential candidate nomination is coming to a close, and Hillary is technically ahead with more delegates and superdelegates than Bernie, though Bernie’s campaign might have influenced the entire presidential campaign more than first thought.

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is a current presidential candidate nominee and is one of two current nominees, the other being Hillary Clinton. Bernie has already made a large impact, by speaking about his socialist ideas, and if elected, he would be the first Jewish president (Of course, Bernie also had other effects on the campaign).

Bernie, for one, believes that Wall Street needs to be reformed and cut down to size. I think this is perfectly right, as all the Wall Street companies are just wasting money to get the rich people money and leave the poor people homeless. Another aspect of Bernie’s campaign is the fact that the Internet ‘hacktivist’ group, Anonymous, fully supports him, and even threatened to shut down the other candidate’s websites so that Bernie’s would be the only one working. That’s pretty crazy, since the group Anonymous is known for it’s massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where the host of a website is flooded with users, denying access to everybody. They didn’t follow through with the threat, but that certainly would have set back the other candidates.

Bernie also has not taken campaign funds from any major corporations like Hillary, and he also didn’t start with any superdelegates, while Hillary started with almost all the superdelegates in her favor. Now, Bernie has 39 and Hillary has 525, and Hillary is also leading in delegates. They are just about tied, with Hillary barely leading in polls by 274 delegates, on having earned delegates.

Personally, I think Bernie may still win, as many superdelegates are also just dropping Hillary. He may be able to tie it with California if he gets a full win of 475 delegates. If he wins 850 delegates of the remaining states, which would require a full win in California, he wins the nomination, and goes on to the presidential campaign. I think that Bernie can pull this off, but it’s going to be hard. He’s behind Hillary, in total, including superdelegates, by 760 delegates, so he’s going to have to make at least 760 to tie, and then an extra 90 to get to the 2,383 delegates required to win.

Bernie may be behind, and Hillary may be close to winning, but that doesn’t change one aspect of the campaign. Bernie left a big impact, and opened a lot of people’s eyes. Without Bernie, Hillary would have gone to win the nomination with virtually no opposition, so Bernie also showed that even a small person can make a big impact.