Op-ed: Sanders won’t go away even after crushing defeat.

Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t going to withdraw from the presidential campaign even after a crushing defeat in New York by Hillary Clinton.

Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told MSNBC that even if Clinton still holds the delegate and popular vote lead after all the primaries to come his candidate will try to win the race at the party’s convention in Philadelphia at the end of July.

This is the same campaign that predicted it would surprise pollsters and win Clinton’s home state despite polls showing them behind by up to 17 percent.

Some pundits had supported their claims that they were catching up with Clinton.

In the end, they lost by about 16 percent.

Weaver told MSNBC that if all the votes of caucuses were counted Clinton would have a huge lead in the popular vote. Most caucuses draw about 4 percent of the their party’s voters. Primaries get around 20 percent. Clinton has claimed more than a 2.4 million-vote lead. Tuesday night she added 265,000 votes to her lead.

Polls indicate Clinton has big leads in several northeastern states voting next week, including Pennsylvania.

Clinton’s delegate lead is boosted by the primaries she has won as well as so-called “super delegates” picked by the party leadership.

The election website 538 said the New York vote “is a devastating result for the Sanders campaign. The outcome almost certainly ensures that Clinton will beat Sanders in the elected delegate count after the final Democratic votes are counted in June.”

Weaver, after having the math pointed out to him, said the campaign would go on anyway. “Absolutely,” he said.

Clinton, in her victory speech, said there was nothing important dividing her camp from Sanders.

The campaign could get even nastier than it has been in recent weeks.

Some pundits suggested Sanders should accept his losses and push for a movement that will have influence in a party that he is not even a member of. He is an independent.

​Two candidates whose candidacies are based on winning the declining white vote have captured the first primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and real estate tycoon Donald Trump had lost a week before.

Now the media “narrative,” this year’s term, will declare them victims and the likely presidential nominees of the Democrat and Republican parties.

How can this be given that the share of whites, meaning Caucasians of Anglo-Saxon descent, is declining each year?

Imagine, a jeweler using an arthroscopic surgeons’ tools, removed two tiny areas from the nation and added up the votes.

Iowa and New Hampshire, combined population less than 5 million of the total of 319 million in the country.

That is not quite 2 percent.

As late night TV hosts repeatedly said, there were more blacks on the university basketball teams in the two states than in their black populations.

The two states both allow people to cross lines and vote for a candidate in either party. Most states require primary voters to be registered members of the party whose race they are voting in.

Next up are Nevada and South Carolina, both with big minority populations, and polls show Clinton with big leads. She lost to Sanders by 18 points, less than the 30 the polls predicted.

Trump may do better since there are so few blacks and so many evangelical, Confederate flag lovers.

As for New England, it used to be joked that the New England states were in their own world. “As Maine goes, so goes Vermont.”

This evening’s Huffington Post banner headline said: “NH Goes Racist Sexist Xenophobic.”

Sanders and Trump appeared to share one thing. But they were opposite sides of the coin.

Sanders wants to be a socialist. Trump want build walls around the country.

Sanders approves of same sex marriage and legal abortion and even legal weed.

Trump wants to put anyone who marries someone of the same sex in jail along with any woman who had an abortion, even if raped.

Here is where the polls seem at odds with each other.

Majorities approve of the gay marriage, legal abortion and legalizing marijuana.

With the two major parties apparently under the control of leftists and rightwing nut cases, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also a billionaire, may enter the race as an independent.

He has been a Democrat, a Republican and now an independent.

The biggest problem with Trump and Sanders is that they are both boring. The media has supported Trump and opposed Clinton.

Bloomberg might give the nation the solid third-party choice most countries already have.