Hillary Clinton Dominates Super Tuesday Races

[onehandle]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Hillary Clinton won sweeping primary victories throughout the South on Super Tuesday, a sign that the Democratic front-runner was vaulting to a commanding lead in the race for the presidential nomination and leaving rival Bernie Sanders diminishing space to stage a comeback.

Mr. Sanders captured his home state of Vermont and Oklahoma. But Mrs. Clinton easily won the delegate-rich Southern states of Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas, as well as Texas, the Associated Press projected—a testament to the continued loyalty of African-American voters who are a sizable share of the Democratic electorate.

“What a super Tuesday!” Mrs. Clinton said in celebration from Florida, which hosts a primary later in the month. In an unmistakable reference to the slogan of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who was having his own strong night, she said, “America has never stopped being great.”

Her speech continued to target Mr. Trump.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-make-last-push-for-super-tuesday-voters-1456830048

[George II]

1. It was a great speech, reflecting on a great night for her and America.

[William769]

2. Kick & very highly recommended!

[Corey_Baker08]

3. Congratulations Hillary Rodham Clinton!

[forest444]

4. "Dominates" sounds like Hillary agit-prop. Bernie's ahead in MA, MN, and CO; winning in OK and VT.

Besides which, this is probably as good as it gets for Shillary given the states coming up.

[John K]

5. Can you have a little bit of decorum??

No one is on here gloating about the wins, just take it easy and move forward.

[PatrynXX]

7. some are

possibly the Hillary group. but outside their little world probably not

[cannabis_flower]

17. Actually I believe

"Hillary Clinton Dominates Super Tuesday Races" sounds like gloating. Perhaps not by anyone here, but by the writer of that headline at least, and whatever editor decided to send it to press.

[6000eliot]

21. Except for the fact that Hillary didn't write the headline.

[passiveporcupine]

22. But this is the WALL STREET JOURNAL remember

Of course they are going to push this as a huge win for Hillary.

[cannabis_flower]

31. Read again

I didn't say Hillary was gloating, I said the person who wrote the headline was gloating.

[Skittles]

25. LOL

THAT IS A TRUE STATEMENT - *HELLO*

[PatrynXX]

6. is hardly dominating... but whatever

Dominating would mean he wins his home state. Looks like he's set to win 3-4 maybe more

[forest444]

9. My point exactly.

Hillary's people are in an awful hurry to frame the evening's narrative. Five out eleven states would be a very good showing for Bernie, considering the states in play.

[itsrobert]

8. That's an UNDERSTATEMENT

Annihilation.

[retrowire]

10. This is only 24% of all delegates to be awarded.

Remember that everyone.

[LannyDeVaney]

11. Great night, as expected, for Sec. Clinton ...

Note that she won my home state (Alabama) by nearly as big a margin as Sen. Sanders won Vermont, with much more delegates at stake.

Just a great night for the Clinton camp.

[noretreatnosurrender]

16. Yes great night for Clinton, as expected

But an even greater night for Bernie because it was unexpected.

[JDPriestly]

27. And is Alabama going to vote for a Democrat in November?

What relevance does Alabama have to the November election?

The voters in Alabama need to work hard to try to turn their state blue.

Otherwise, their preference in the primary doesn't really mean much.

http://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/

Sorry, but I'm in California, and we don't vote until June 7. We vote Democratic in presidential elections. We matter. Our preference matters.

This system in which the primaries are held on different dates in different states is extremely unfair to people in states that vote last.

California has 546, yes, 546 delegates to the national convention.

Alabama has all of 60.

It's a long way until this primary is over.

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. You do know that BS doesn't get all 546, right? Not to discourage you, but the math just became....

nearly impossible to overcome. After tonight, she'll have nearly 600 more delegates than BS.

Credit to riversedge for posting:

Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight for the presidential nomination until the Democratic convention, but the results this evening suggest that he is not anywhere close to being on track to amass a majority of pledged delegates.

Hillary Clinton’s landslide margins in the South and her competitiveness elsewhere translate to an overall lead of around 15 to 20 percentage points nationwide. Her support is anchored by a huge advantage among black voters, who represent nearly a quarter of Democratic voters and have offered her more than 80 percent of their votes — a tally rivaling or even exceeding the share won by Barack Obama in 2008.

Mr. Sanders, despite pockets of strength, has not fared well enough to overcome such a huge deficit among black voters.

Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories
Who Will Win Super Tuesday? Live Estimates of Tonight’s Final Democratic Results

Not even a few feel-good wins in states like Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma would change that. Mr. Sanders would need big wins in these states — by much more than 20 percentage points — to entertain the possibility of overcoming his enormous deficit in the South, where the majority of Democrats are African-American.............................

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/upshot/sanders-campaign-will-travel-on-but-path-to-victory-is-all-but-blocked.html?_r=0

[leftynyc]

32. And there go Southern Democrats under

the Bernie bus. Quite literally telling them THEY DON'T MATTER. So crowded under there these days.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. Well, except Oklahomans. They're special Southerners, doncha know.

[leftynyc]

36. Because they voted

the RIGHT way, of course.

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. You got it!

[LannyDeVaney]

33. Nice try ... you aren't going to discount my vote. It's my right as an American ...

whether you agree or not.

Shame on you.

[Cobalt Violet]

12. Kind of premature.

Thought Bernie was only suppose to win VT. That was the drumbeat since SC.

[Geronimoe]

13. Hillary supporters and corporate media

have been telling us, Super Tuesday would be the end of Bernie.

It does appear he'll be in it to the convention.

[noretreatnosurrender]

14. Wall Street Journal

Spin for their candidate.

[Raster]

15. I hear Blankenstein and the good ship Goldman...

... may try some non-grass fed (not enough data) cattle futures....er SANDWICHES at the next meet and greet. And WSJ gotta pimp for their gurl, after all, she has pledged NOT to call them on their shite. At least I believe she has.... have not seen the transcripts.

[Zorro]

18. MSNBC projects Clinton winner in Massachusetts

[noretreatnosurrender]

19. Colorado Feeling the Bern!

Colorado just called for Bernie. Bernie ahead in MN 59-41

[Phlem]

20. Of Course the Wall Street Journal would say this.

Derp!?

[ismnotwasm]

23. She has an incredible delagate lead

It feels good.

[oNobodyo]

24. Looks pretty dominant to me.

Delegate net gain per race

Alabama +30 Clinton
Arkansas +12 Clinton
Colorado +13 Sanders
Georgia +42 Clinton
Massachusetts +3 Clinton
Minnesota +11 Sanders
Oklahoma +6 Sanders
Tennessee +19 Clinton
Texas +78 Clinton
Vermont · +10 Sanders
Vermont · +29 Clinton

Net gain +183 Clinton

[JDPriestly]

26. Hillary lost Colorado by 19 points, Minnesota by 20 points, Oklahoma by 10 points and

Vermont by 72, yes, 72 points according to this:

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results

Virginia might possibly vote Democratic in November. Alabama, Georgia and Texas probably won't although there is a small chance of a success in Texas. Tennessee and Arkansas probably won't either. Maybe Arkansas will, but . . . .

the big win tonight was Bernie's.

Hillary won in conservative, Confederate states. What good will that do Democrats? They will vote for Cruz, Rubio or Trump, not for any Democrat in November.

Bernie has shown he has tremendous appeal in northern states.

Feel the Bern!

[LannyDeVaney]

34. This just in: Massachusetts is now a conservative Confederate state in Sanders world

Somebody go tell the Kennedy's.

[Tarheel_Dem]

28. A big old K&R!!!!!

[stonecutter357]

30. K&R!