Wheels come off the Dem machine

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Sen. Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton by 12 points in last Tuesday’s Oregon Democratic primary. It was an unusual victory in that Clinton’s nomination is already a done deal.

Sanders has no hope of catching the Democratic establishment’s chosen champion. Even he knows superdelegates, party guardians of the status quo, are not going to defect from a candidate who has the most votes and earned delegates.

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