If Sanders wants to stay in this
thing, that's fine with me. Even if it is impossible for him to win because of delegate math.
Despite running a campaign that has a strategic planning and electorate reading problem from the beginning (yep... Tad Devine), the fact is Sanders has struck oil. Its not a big enough well to win, but it is producing. There is a vote out there for him clearly.
My reasoning has nothing to do with 'voices heard' type campaigns. I'm usually dismissive of any campaign that does not have electoral victory as its core mission.
But, if Sanders, faced with no chance of winning the nomination were to turn his campaign against Donald Trump and Republicans, he would be doing Democrats a whole lot of good.
He'd be helping our party unify around a common enemy.
He'd be helping himself by gaining new allies to his cause.
And most importantly, Democrats would have two big guns out there softening up the GOP for the general.
That's what I expect will happen if Sanders decides to stay in despite being unable to win.