CNN has called Alaska for Sanders

[Attorney in Texas]

Source: CNN

This is a live televised report; no story yet.

In Alaska, Sanders is up by 79% to Hillary's 21% with over 38% of the vote in, and CNN has called it for Sanders.

In Washington, Sanders is up by 74% to 26% for Hillary with over 14% of the vote in.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/

[jillan]

1. Woooooot !!!!!!

Cnn really downplaying it - are you listening? lol

Wonder if TYT is on

[dchill]

2. At least they waited until 38% of the vote was in.

[Pastiche423]

4. With 55% of precincts in...

Bernie 82.5%

Hillary 17.5%

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/results/2016/primary/dem/president/alaska/

Feel The Bern!!!

[dchill]

5. I'm hoping, of course, for a really big margin.

More delegates, please.

[Pastiche423]

10. Same here

and he's winning Washington (101 delegates) w/19.4% in:

Bernie 76%

Hillary 24%

Go Bernie Go!

[PatrynXX]

11. Washington State tends to be rather Liberal

101 delegates up for grabs should be interesting

[passiveporcupine]

27. So far Bernie is way ahead in washington

but only 25% reported

[underpants]

14. Vote count stands at 12 to 5 right now

But they think there may as many as 25 other Democrats in Alaska.

I'm. Joking.

[retrowire]

3. wooo feel the bern!!! nt

[greymouse]

6. AP called Alaska for Bernie 9 regular delegates, Clinton 0 regular delegates

[dchill]

19. I guess that'll have to do.

[democrank]

7. What wonderful news

~PEACE~
~LOVE~
~BERNIE~

[PatrynXX]

20. in this state

Feel The
Bern
Bernie
Blowout

[New Earth]

8. woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LongTomH]

9. And of course, they have to say: "Delegate math still favors Clinton"

[PatrynXX]

13. thats cause they flunked math more than I did

actually I flunked Algebra went from Pre Algebra in one state to Alebgra II in another and messed me up forever. I should have taken Algebra 1


Math I was usually good at. (now my uncle he went all the way to Trig and I faint )

[MADem]

22. Well, it does. These states are less diverse and less populated than upcoming contests.

I mean, come on--these are not big prizes in terms of the delegate grab. And caucus states favor Sanders.

Still, his investment has been rewarded here, and it's a VERY good day for him, so he and his supporters should enjoy the wins, pat themselves on the back, and do a bit of celebrating. He's to be congratulated for his hard work.

[JonLeibowitz]

52. AK is only 64% white.

[Blue_In_AK]

61. I've never been able to figure out

why people Outside think Alaska is so white, especially given our large Native population. Spend any time in Anchorage, and you'll see all kinds of people. We have a very large Asian population, Filipino, lots of Pacific Islanders, AA, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and in recent years we've taken in a lot of refugees from Somalia and other African countries. As I pointed out somewhere in this thread, we have one of the most diverse school districts in the country, with almost 100 languages being spoken in the homes of our students.

[JonLeibowitz]

62. I think it is because people are trying to fit the facts to the existing narrative.

To admit that it is anything other than demographics would be to accept that many Americans reject neoliberalism and the New Democrats. This is a dangerous idea, and so we must shoehorn the narrative in wherever possible.

[Beartracks]

68. Yep. Bernie is only "supposed" to appeal to "lily-white" states.

Ipso facto, if Bernie won Alaska, the state "must" be lily-white.



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[MADem]

76. 66.9% white. Not the whitest, certainly. But more white than not.

White alone, percent, July 1, 2014, (V2014) (a)
66.9%

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/RHI125214/02

[PatrynXX]

23. oddly

Republicans say the math does not favor Trump yet he has a bigger delegate lead O_O , just pointing this out. Not endorsing dickless (it's true this man has no dick)

[MADem]

28. The math DOES favor Trump, though--even 538 says as much.

They've been talking about "variances" lately (the Cuban Mistress Crisis, e.g., the "Your wife is ugly" battles, and the twitter bombs about penis and hand size, e.g.) but they're saying he just might take it without a food/floor fight.

Time will --as it always does--tell.

[Zira]

71. +10000. Yes, it's true.

[MADem]

12. Today is Sanders' day. The demographics favor him overwhelmingly. nt

[PatrynXX]

15. can't exactly say Alaska is a white state

Think Alaska I think Eskimo's etc Hawaii is the problem. She doesn't do well in Caucuses but Obama has indicated Hillary should be the one for whatever reason. So will they listen to him or themselves.

[MADem]

24. 66.9% white. Not the whitest, certainly.

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/02

[Blue_In_AK]

43. Anchorage especially is very diverse.

Several of the most diverse schools in the country are in this city, thanks to our considerable immigrant population.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150523/anchorage-public-schools-lead-nation-diversity

[Khellendross]

16. Washington

Is a fairly diverse state o.0 that whole "the demographics favor him" is BS.

[MADem]

26. Washington state is over 77% white-if that's "diverse" to you, you do not understand the meaning of

the word.

[FailureToCommunicate]

40. ...

[MADem]

78. ..............

Facts are neither negative nor positive. They're just facts.

[C Moon]

79. And votes are votes. You seemed so focused on racial statistics.

Bernie people aren't: we just love what how he wants to move this country out of the control of the 1%.
Bernie is the future. Hillary is the past.

[MADem]

80. Yes, votes are votes. But none were cast in WA or AK.

Those are caucus states, you see! And even in HI, what happened there was technically a "poll." A Presidential Preference Poll, to be precise--not a "primary," and not a "caucus," either.

I don't pretend to try to project with regard to what Sanders supporters "seem" to be focused on. I don't think you should try to do that with me, either. I get the distinct sense you're trying to denigrate me with that comment. It's obvious you don't know me.

I think you might find, come November, that Hillary Clinton is the future.

But time will tell.

[FailureToCommunicate]

81. Are we being

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disingenuous here, perhaps? You clearly are attempting to rain on the parade of these victories. Even if they don't count in your mind as "votes" , even if they are only popularity contests as you believe, the FACT remains, that for the people in caucus states, that is their ONLY choice to participate. So, I'm sure you wouldn't want their voices silenced, even if it isn't a "vote" right?

[Scootaloo]

54. Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii have every strong liberal demographics, that's true

[MADem]

69. They have people who align themselves with Sanders' priorities.

And that includes the 'gun' piece, too.

[Scootaloo]

70. Strong firearms regulations, assault weapon bans, and comprehensive background checks, yup.

Thanks for helping point that out, MADem!

[MADem]

73. Hmmmm.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/11/gun-rights-advocate-sanders-looking-votes/73589030/

....May 8, 1991: The Brady bill passes the U.S. House of Representatives, 239-186, requiring a seven-day waiting period for handgun sales. Sanders votes no.

....Nov. 11, 1993: The federal Brady bill passes the U.S. House of Representatives with a 238-189 vote, requiring a five-day waiting period and a background check for handgun sales. Sanders votes no.

.

...Oct. 20, 2005: Sanders helps to pass an NRA-supported bill that limits lawsuits against gun manufacturers. The House vote is 223-140, and the bill becomes law the following year.

Hillary Clinton, then a senator representing New York, votes against the bill.

This vote will come up a decade later during his 2015 presidential campaign, and Sanders will defend his decision.

Nov. 7, 2006: Sanders jumps from the U.S. House to the U.S. Senate with more than 65 percent of the vote. Sanders’ NRA grade at the time is a “C-.”

[Marrah_G]

74. Which demographics?

[MADem]

75. Gun loving, low population per square mile state, substantially rural, more white than not.

Those are a slam-dunk for him, so long as he's not up against a white male Republican--he'd have a harder time in that case.

[FailureToCommunicate]

83. You really are trying to

get bird poop on anything related to Bernie being popular with people who think slightly different than you. 'Gun loving, white, country folk' ?? That is a laugh. And SO different then Hillary supporters, who you image as urban, black, and gun hating?

It's okay for you to be disappointed with the recent results without dissing the electorate.

[MADem]

84. I really am trying to point out the locations where his popularity is greatest, as judged by the

results of primary and/or caucus contests. That's all I'm "trying" to do. And I'm also using source documents like the US census to come to my conclusions. Finally, I'm using the facts--the contest results--to make my determination.

I am not disappointed with the recent results--they were entirely expected. Anyone who has read a newspaper in the last month could have predicted this outcome!

Enjoy your victory--Sanders did well with his target supporters yesterday!

[FailureToCommunicate]

85. Phacts? Phail

Census tables may be facts, but what you do with them is draw assumptions.

Why spread more guano?

(Please, no need to reply, this is not an actual question)

[MADem]

86. PH-balanced, are you?

Gee, I'm sure the US Census is just crushed at being referred to as a "phail."

Is that silly spelling a thing with the kids nowadays?

(Please, no need to reply, this is not an actual question)

[noiretextatique]

87. Wait for CA and NY...big diverse states, not in the bible belt

Sanders will do well.

[MADem]

88. He needs 70%. From here on out. nt

[noiretextatique]

89. He got over 70% in AK, HI, and WA nt

[MADem]

90. Look at the total delegate take from those states. Now look at the take in NY, PA, CT.

You think he'll take seventy percent there? In states where Democrats -- and just Democrats (not Independents, Libertarians, Reform Party, Green Party, etc.) -- choose their party standard bearer?

He's got to do that the rest of the way. I don't think that's possible. YMMV.

[jalan48]

17. Ouch!

[Kotze]

18. Caaan you feel the BEEEEERNNN tonight?! n/t

[Left Coast2020]

21. HOT F'ING DAMN!!!!!!

Thank you Alaska!!!!

[roguevalley]

47. you're welcome :D

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

25. These are REAL people. Hard working people. They wonder about the future.

I'm so proud of my fellow Americans that they made the right decision. Informed voters are the most dangerous in the world!

[Equinox Moon]

29. Wonderful News!

Thanks for the post.

[Deadshot]

31. But, but, but...he was supposed to drop out and Hillary was supposed to be anointed president.

Yay Bernie!

[iandhr]

32. Since Alaska is a red state we are not going to win in the general does it count.

I have heard that often when Hillary wins a primary.


So If HRC wins in places like South Carolina and Alabama, and Georgia don't count, logic would assume that Bernie's wins in Alaska, Idaho, Utah, and Oklahoma don't count.


Or we can drop that kind of talk and acknowledge that both Hillary and Bernie's wins matter.


I think the latter is more sensible.

[Powdered Toast Man]

42. +1

[roguevalley]

49. Bernie crosses over, hill doesnt. don't count AK out

[Blue_In_AK]

58. That's what I keep saying.

I think Bernie could take it.

[roguevalley]

60. he will.

[NorthCarolina]

33. I have to admit, I am SHOCKED that MSNBC has Bernie in WI right now.

SHOCKED I tell ya. I figured they would have already segued to Lockup.

[Duppers]

35. And they called Washington for Bernie.

At 6:29.




BERNIE!!

[L. Coyote]

34. The graphic has #BirdieSanders

[onehandle]

36. Caucus. nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. See post #40 above

[Lordquinton]

63. Gesundheit. nt

[SheilaT]

37. How in the world do they do caucuses in so enormous a state?

[Blue_In_AK]

44. We had one big caucus in Anchorage for the state House districts here

and then there were mini caucuses out in the smaller districts.

[SheilaT]

48. One graphic I'm looking at

shows 40 precincts for the entire state. Can people phone in?

I'd never thought much about this before, but how many people outside of the cities have to travel a very long way to vote? Or buy groceries? Or go to a school or library?

Anyway, I'm pleased that Alaska went so strongly for Bernie.

[roguevalley]

50. some caucus in people's houses

We adapt

[SheilaT]

53. So outside the cities,

in the vast open areas, people just get together in smaller numbers and phone in the results?

I've never even had the pleasure of visiting Alaska, and if I ever do I'll probably not really see very much of the state, no doubt like almost all visitors. For some reason, looking at the caucus results today with a map of Alaska in front of me is making me think a lot about just how huge it is.

[roguevalley]

55. yes. we're vast and the wilderness is a half hour away from the cities.

It's major awesome here.

[Blue_In_AK]

57. They've tried hard to make voting easier

for the folks out in the villages, printing ballots in the Native languages, etc., but it is quite challenging. I'm not exactly sure how they handled this caucus. During regular elections, they do have polling stations set up in the various hub villages. As for food, many people out there rely on subsistence - salmon and moose, whale up north - for most of their food, traveling into the hub villages by four wheeler or boat in the summer and snow machine in the winter for staples. Store food is extremely expensive, though, off the road system, and gasoline is four or five times what it is in the city. Living in Alaska's Bush is not for the faint-hearted. Some villages don't even have indoor plumbing yet.

Back in the old days, the Native kids were sent out of the villages to boarding schools for their education. In the '70s a lawsuit was brought on behalf of the Native kids to provide schools in the villages and subsequently many schools were opened out there. It's very expensive, though, and hard to keep teachers, especially non-Native ones who have trouble adjusting to the village lifestyle. With Alaska's current budget crisis brought on by the declining oil prices (and our stupid legislature), a lot of the schools are in serious financial trouble. It's a big issue here. There is also a lot of home-schooling out of necessity more than ideology. GCI, our cable company, has done a pretty good job of providing Internet statewide, although it's really slow in some places.

[SheilaT]

59. Thank you for informing me on this.

Every state has its own challenges and quirks. I'm glad that I've lived in several different states as an adult, which helps me understand somewhat better the places I've never lived in.

I'm in New Mexico, and while it is of course quite a bit smaller than you -- although it's the fifth largest by size -- but we do have a pretty large indigenous population, and I'm aware of some of the issues connected to schools on tribal lands, very similar to what you're describing.

[d_b]

38. awesome

k&r for the progressives back home.

[SylviaD]

39. Are these numbers correct??

Shaking my head here. Not really sure what to say if these numbers hold up.

...but Bernie still has no realistic way to catch HRC, but he is certainly popular in some states.

Wow...

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Hillary didn't carry a single one of Alaska's 40 districts

that I've seen, and was shut out completely in several. The fact that Bernie's an independent makes him much more popular here than if he were a partisan Democrat. There are more independents here than Dems and Republicans combined, and independents could register Dem for the caucus. Republicans run our state legislature, but the minority is an Independent/Democrat coalition. Our governor is a Republican turned independent, while the lieutenant governor is a Democrat. Alaska is not as red as it first appears.

[d_b]

64. Blue

do you know where I can view the AK precinct results?


thanks

[Blue_In_AK]

66. I can't find anything online now

other than that about 79% of the votes are counted. I'll keep looking.

[d_b]

67. me too

thanks for the reply!

[Blue_In_AK]

82. A friend of one of my FB friends compiled this handy chart

that breaks it all down. Enjoy.

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bee0c9e4b0441ce96c4681/t/56f7547e27d4bdeb601fa43f/1459049599932/Alaska+2016+Democratic+Presidential+Caucus+Results+%281%29.pdf

[pallidin710]

45. Rally time!!!

[link:|

[Zira]

72. Rally time yes. We had a little voter fraud in my caucas today.

I was the precinct captain and the envelope had two votes for Hillary in it when I opened it. 29 people showed up and voted for Bernie, 2 for Hillary and one undecided. Hillary got 1 delegate out of 4. After voting the Hillary supporters left even though I asked everyone to stay to pick delgates. I had to randomly choose from the 4 Hillary supporters papers since they all left. I chose a delegate and backup delegate. So I chose and handed in the envelope with all done. I went home and called the delgate and backup Hillary delegate I picked. I tried to call at the caucus but the Junior High had no cell coverage. The Delegate told me she absolutely couldn't do it and didn't not want the job. The backup told me she didn't vote for Hillary and neither did her husband. They were the the two votes in the packet that had said they picked Hillary. She said they were undecided and voted that way and wouldn't have voted for Hillary regardless. I said well, I'm not sure what to think, Hillary would have gotten no delegates if it wasn't for you and your husband making up half the vote. And that's exactly what she ended up with because this woman refused to go be a delegate. She said her and her husband did not and would not be voting for Hillary. I said she could still go to the legislative convention and vote for who she wanted but she declined. She did agree that I could call her again before the convention to see if she changed her mind.

So no delegates for Hillary. I tried. But it appears she didn't have them in the first place no matter what some dishonest caucus worker wrote on their forms. And, yes, Bernie still got gypped out of one in the numbers tonight, and it's only one less person voting against him, not one voting for him at the legistlative convention.

It is a good day indeed that Hillary won't get that vote though at the convention.

Anybody know the number to call for voter fraud? I'd like to report it.

I will try this number Monday:
Washington 360-902-4151

[whistler162]

51. Did they call everyone in Alaska

or just a few?

[libodem]

56. Smilie Brigade Baby

[navarth]

65. Righteous. Donating $50 more to Bernie tomorrow.

These posts about Bernie winning states are like air freshener in a DU that has acquired a bad smell of late.

[Zira]

77. WHOOO HOOOO!!!!!