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Cha

(296,853 posts)
2. Hillary's states are diverse and so are the voters!
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:53 PM
Mar 2016

Ain't that America!

Oh and btw, lurkers.. Hillary won super Tuesday!

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
3. Hilllary won Tuesday?
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 02:33 PM
Mar 2016

Only if you count all the votes and the delegates and the number of states and can do math.

riversedge

(70,087 posts)
5. It wasn’t just black voters, either: Clinton dominated with Hispanics in Texas.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 03:42 PM
Mar 2016



Hillary Clinton’s Got This

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hillary-clintons-got-this/


Something truly crazy would have to happen for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination.

By Harry Enten


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Hillary Clinton reacts to supporters as she arrives at her Super Tuesday election night rally in Miami.

Gerald Herbert / AP

To borrow a phrase from Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton swept through the South like a big wheel through a Delta cotton field on Super Tuesday. She won seven states total, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in the South. She also won Massachusetts and American Samoa. Bernie Sanders emerged victorious in four states (Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Vermont), but his victories tended to come by smaller margins and in smaller states. The end result is that Clinton has a clear path to winning the nomination, and Sanders’s only hope to derail her is for something very unusual to happen.

We’ve now seen 15 states vote in the Democratic contest, and it’s clear that Clinton’s coalition is wider than Sanders’s. Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population. That’s not going to work this year when black voters are likely to make up more than 20 percent of Democratic primary voters nationwide.

On Tuesday, we saw why. As she did in Nevada and South Carolina, Clinton won huge margins of black voters. Her worst performance was in Oklahoma, where 71 percent of black voters in the Democratic primary chose her. In Alabama, she won 93 percent of black voters on her way to winning 78 percent of Democrats overall. Clinton took no less than 64 percent of the overall vote in the Southern states she won.

It wasn’t just black voters, either: Clinton dominated with Hispanics in Texas. There had been some questions about how Hispanics voted in Nevada, but there was little doubt in Texas. The exit poll showed Clinton with a 42 percentage point win among Hispanics, about the margin she won in counties such as Hidalgo, where Hispanics make up 91 percent of the population. Those results bode well for Clinton in states such as Arizona, California, Florida and New Mexico.

The end result is that Clinton will now have a substantial delegate lead. .............................

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
6. Yep. In heavy Latino populated California, Bernie is going to lose painfully.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 03:49 PM
Mar 2016

It were the Latinos who defeated Meg Whitman and gave Jerry Brown the election when throughout the rest of the country, Republicans were sweeping governor's mansions and legislatures. Only California bucked that disastrous trend, and that's why our economy is doing exceedingly well and we've gone from deep-red budget deficits to strong black surpluses.

Minorities aren't easily bedazzled by the latest shining object on the Left (or perceived Left). Minorities have seen it all, heard it all, and felt it all, and ideologues can't dent our pragmatism when it comes to electing strong leaders who will benefit our families and communities. Hillary Clinton, therefore, will be our 45th President.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
13. Sanders needs 60 percent of remaining delegates to win
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:29 AM
Mar 2016

Heard this on night shows last night. That is a little difficult, close to impossible. If so Math just ain't there.

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