First and foremost, that’s not how this works. The popular vote is the popular vote. That’s who decides the nominee. You writing it off as a small percentage of registered Democrats is meaningless.

Who is discarding independent voters? I’m not sure I even understand what you are getting at since you seem to not be able to make your point.

Clinton has a far bigger lead today than Obama ever had. The race is over. Even Sanders has all but admitted it (it’s why he’s now running to influence the platform more than to win).