Sanders’ Dilemma: Go for Broke or Go for Influence

Having all but lost the Democratic race, how hard does he go after Hillary Clinton, and at what cost to the party and to himself?
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The cruel irony of Bernie Sanders' recent victories in West Virginia and Indiana is that they further narrowed his path to the nomination.

Win or lose, Hillary Clinton continues to collect delegates in primaries and has built up enough of a lead that she needs a mere 14 percent of those remaining to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, according to an Associated Press count. The Vermont insurgent needs 86 percent.