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riversedge

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Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:45 AM Mar 2016

SUPER TUESDAY The night Hillary Clinton regained her inevitability

I will just say mojo as I have never liked that term 'inevitability'!


SUPER TUESDAY
The night Hillary Clinton regained her inevitability


https://www.yahoo.com/politics/the-night-hillary-clinton-regained-her-020854315.html


Hunter Walker

March 1, 2016


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Hillary Clinton speaks at her Super Tuesday election night rally at a film studio in Miami. (Photo: Joe Skipper/EPA)

MIAMI, Fla. — Hillary Clinton entered this presidential campaign last April as an overwhelming frontrunner and inevitable Democratic nominee. Tonight, she regained that status.

There was a lot of cheering at Clinton’s primary night party as results from the 12 states and territories that voted on Tuesday began to flash on the screen. Polls had indicated Clinton would do well today, and there were no surprises.

Following her huge win in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday, Clinton’s strong showing in the Super Tuesday races today has allowed her to pull substantially ahead of her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. As the night progressed, she was declared victor in the delegate-rich states of Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas and Massachusetts. Sanders won his home state of Vermont right off the bat — and later Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota — and gave an early evening speech before calling it a night. Though Clinton and her allies aren’t declaring victory just yet, it is clear they believe the writing is on the wall for Sanders.

Tuesday’s balloting kicked off a streak of primaries this month, and Sanders’ campaign reportedly views March 15 as a decisive moment in the fight for the Democratic nomination. A Clinton campaign source who spoke to Yahoo News at her primary night party here on Tuesday indicated that the campaign also sees March 15 as a turning point — and that it expects the night will be a good one for them.

“By mid-March, our lead will be large enough that it will be effectively insurmountable — [it] won’t be mathematically impossible — but it will be effectively insurmountable,” the Clinton source said..........................................

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SUPER TUESDAY The night Hillary Clinton regained her inevitability (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2016 OP
Math is a good thing! ismnotwasm Mar 2016 #1
K&R. nt UtahLib Mar 2016 #2
There can be no denying. oasis Mar 2016 #3
Apparently, there can... ismnotwasm Mar 2016 #5
I'd comment Treant Mar 2016 #6
Thanks rivers! Cha Mar 2016 #4
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