The Obama campaign held on to their systems and data and wanted to shut down the activists, as they had already implied more than they wanted to deliver and Obama had need of the system for 2012 and to assist whoever he wanted in 2016. Bernie is in a different situation. He wants, first and foremost, to bring about the change he has been advocating, preferably now by winning the presidency. I would expect him to want the campaign to continue to build support for his program and to influence the 2018 midterm and 2020 election.

If he loses the nomination, his organization, his volunteers and the data they have amassed would be quite a mantle to bestow on a suitable successor. That is what I would expect him to do. We will know the answer soon enough, should he not get the nomination. He could do what he could to help Hillary and to get a more progressive Congress and Senate. Both would help him push his agenda from the Senate. He ran this time because no other viable progressive emerged.


"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."