Sunday, March 27, 2016

Bernie Cleaned Hillary's Clock Saturday





And, did I mention that a few days earlier, he also cleaned her clock in Idaho?



I bet there's a serious huddle in the Hillary camp.

When I look at the list of states yet to hold primaries, I don't see a lot more possibility for the Bern, but you never know. California has a boat load of delegates, and I have no sense of how they might go.

And, just to keep flagging the issue...
Superdelegates are notable members of the Democratic Party [...] and can give their votes to any candidate at the Democratic National Convention in July. They often pledge support for candidates earlier in the process.

After superdelegates were factored in, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders finished with virtually the same number of delegates in New Hampshire even though Sanders beat Clinton by 22 percentage points.

“The reason the party designed the system that way is because they wanted to have some built-in filter” on who gets the nomination, [University of Houston political science professor Brandon] Rottinghaus said. “But the percentage of superdelegates out of the total is pretty low, so although they do have outside influence and they’re not elected, it is simply a fail-safe tool for the party to make sure that they don’t nominate someone who can’t handle the job.”

Rottinghaus said superdelegates have not made a big impact in recent presidential elections.

Superdelegates can always change their mind. In 2008, some superdelegates initially endorsed Clinton but jumped ship and headed to Barack Obama’s side before the convention.

“They are bound only by their own conscience and their own reputation,” Rottinghaus said.

  Dallas News
Rottinghaus - sounds like the Democratic Party itself.

As for the Republicans, things were much closer.  In Alaska:  Cruz 36.4%, Trump 33.5%.  Each picked up 14 delegates.  In Hawaii: Cruz 32.7% (7 delegates), Trump 42.4% (11).  Rubio, who has dropped out, picked up 1 delegate, and Kasich, who's still in, didn't get any.  In Idaho's primary, Cruz pulled away from Trump: 20 delegates to 12 (45.4% to 28.1%).  The state of Washington holds their Republican caucus on May 24.

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