Bernie Sanders rose in the polls because he’s a creation of the media – same as Donald Trump.
Ralph Nader claims Bernie won in the open primary states. That is a lot of hooey: Mississippi, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, and South Carolina, which have open primaries, went with Clinton (13) and seven went with Sanders.
Bernie did the best in caucus states, which is about as non-democratic as you can get.
Besides, Clinton thumped him in the popular vote by almost 3.8 million.
States with an open presidential primary
- Alabama (Clinton)
- Arkansas (Clinton)
- Georgia (Clinton)
- Illinois (Clinton)
- Indiana (Sanders)
- Massachusetts (All races’ primaries open for “unenrolled”/unaffiliated voters only) (Clinton)
- Michigan (Sanders)
- Mississippi (Clinton)
- Missouri (Clinton)
- New Hampshire (Sanders)
- North Carolina (All races’ primaries open for unaffiliated voters only)[11] (Clinton)
- North Dakota (Sanders)
- Ohio (Clinton)
- Oklahoma (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2015) [12] (Sanders)
- South Carolina (Clinton)
- Tennessee (Clinton)
- Texas (Clinton)
- Vermont (Sanders)
- Virginia (Clinton)
- Wisconsin[13] (Sanders)