Face it. Outside of the south, Hillary struggles.

[morningfog]

Out of the south, she either ekes out wins (IA and MA), loses (CO, OK, NE) or get absolutely clobbered (VT, NH, ME, KS, MN).

She has a real problem with wider appeal.

[Nonhlanhla]

1. Her coalition is wider than Bernie's

She wins key Democratic demographics (Bernie wins some too, particularly the youth vote).

But to say that the support is limited is to ignore the reality that she has so far earned the most delegates, polls more strongly in large blue and purple states like Pennsylvania than Bernie does, and that her coalition is more ethnically diverse.

[highprincipleswork]

29. Forget the delegates, they are bribed. The rest - changing rapidly, and for good reason.

[Nonhlanhla]

43. Bribed?

So you're saying that all the delegates that Hillary has earned in the primaries so far, are bribed? What a bizarre thing to say.

[highprincipleswork]

49. Not at all. Fearful of retribution, desiring to curry favor.

[Nonhlanhla]

51. I was obviously talking about the pledged delegates

which she earned in the primaries and caucuses so far.

Although it's absurd to say that about the super delegates too.

[TheBlackAdder]

53. Many in the South voted for HRC because of Bill Clinton, not because of HRC.

.


It's the old adage, "You father was born before you!"


Meaning that a rich kid wouldn't have been rich if his father wasn't successful first!



HRC is riding the coattails of WJC.

The worrisome thing is that HRC falls flat even with the establishment fully supporting her.




.

[Nonhlanhla]

57. You are insulting. Bye bye. Nt

[TheBlackAdder]

58. Ignoring the exit answers? Bye Bye! nt

[laserhaas]

62. Supporting and rigging it - fer her...

This is soooooo friggin cool.....

just

......happily

................ sayin................

[m-lekktor]

63. That's exactly it! nt

[fourcents]

39. You cannot go by the polls when it comes to Senator Sanders, tonight proves it also....

ethnically diverse is changing more to Sanders as people find out about him. One thing is for sure is, Sanders draws much more politically diverse electorate which would make him a better choice in the general. So why not fight the good fight with us.

[Nonhlanhla]

44. No

I don't think he's the best choice for president.

[fourcents]

45. He beats any gop Candidates better that Hillary, so yeah he's the best choice for president

[Nonhlanhla]

47. Oh please

Those polls mean nothing at this stage.

More importantly, I don't think Bernie has the temperament for the job.

[fourcents]

52. You need to find out more about the amendment king...........

You need to find out more about the amendment king. Fellow representatives from both sides have said he has gotten things passed without even taking credit. Bernie Sanders sticks to what's right even when it's not fashionable. Being not for sale and having the highest trustworthy quota of all the candidates not important? Well still voting and serving us in the Senate (check the votes Rubio missed well campaigning) he's campaigning across the country.

I afraid if it's Trump and Hillary, Trump will go to the center and destroy Hillary the poster girl for the banks & exporting jobs. Bernie because of his temperament will get things done. Hillary will get things done for her donors and all the lobbyist working in her campaign. But we may not have to worry because Populous Centrist Bernie has just been going up & up which is great for us progressive Democrats and the rest of the country too.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Stay tuned for Michigan on Tuesday.

Unless you consider Michigan to be a Southern state...

[firebrand80]

3. Anything south of the Canadian border is south nt

[Buzz Clik]

4. That will be problematic for Bernie.

[Motown_Johnny]

17. Part of Detroit is North of the Canadian border.

So what does that make us?

[cemaphonic]

21. Fun fact:

More that half of US states run farther north than the southernmost extremity of Canada.

[Ken Burch]

24. We are INDEED staying tuned for Michigan.

Quite an evening.

[UMTerp01]

5. Face it: Outside of lily white states Bernie struggles

Do you really want to talk about struggles when your candidate's base is essentially white liberals? They both have issues.

[wildeyed]

7. Jinx!

You beat me by one minute.

[Zorra]

8. Latinos are lily white? Quick, everyone, call congress right away

and demand that Latinos get their white privilege cards immediately!

Bernie won the Latino vote in Nevada and Colorado.

[UMTerp01]

10. Yes cuz when one thinks of diversity they immediately think.....COLORADO

N/T

[Zorra]

11. Thank you for illustrating the fact that the Clinton camp doesn't know that Asians, Latinos,

and Native Americans exist in the US.

People of Asian, Hispanic, and Native American ancestry make up 26% of Colorado's population.

Perhaps "one" needs to learn a great deal more about the world around "one".

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. To some, "people of color" or "minority" means "black."

Not surprisingly, this often annoys the hell out of my Latino, Asian, and Native friends.

[Kalidurga]

30. It sure annoys me when I am trying to explain most my family is POC

Mostly Latino, then White, then well just about everyone else except Togolese.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. Colorado is actually more diverse than Tennessee, Arkansas

and even Alabama.

[fourcents]

41. Snap! well said!

[jillan]

23. Native Americans, Muslims are lily white? Sorry, those votes are going to Bernie.

[white_wolf]

32. Muslims can be since Islam is a religion and not a race..

Sorry that's just a pet peeve of mine.

[SMC22307]

25. Michigan is lily white?

[wildeyed]

6. Face it. Outside of homogeneously white states, Bernie struggles.

Even in some very white states, he can't win (IA and MA)! And he gets absolutely clobbered in the South, or anywhere with a racially diverse electorate.

He has a real problem with wider appeal.

[oldandhappy]

9. She is apparently ahead in MI.

[Aha]

13. In your dreams.

She will lose MI, after she insulted the Michiganders tonight.

[oldandhappy]

16. In my dreams I certainly hope so!

[Agschmid]

19. ...

[Nyan]

38. She was apparently not ahead.

[oldandhappy]

59. for which I am grateful, thank you Michigan

[mcar]

14. ..

[bigtree]

15. he's good in those small caucus states

...with limited diversity.

That's not 'wider appeal,' it's a Sanders failure to secure the support of the Obama coalition.

[consciouslocs]

20. I welcome Tuesday...

[Yavin4]

18. Hillary's 2nd highest popular vote total so far was in Mass.

Massachusetts - 603,784


Link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html

[Lorien]

27. Where a lot of shenanigans took place

Bernie is also far more popular with independents than she is, which counts in the general election.

[morningfog]

22. kick

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. This was well cruel given the results (upset)

But I like it

[Kalidurga]

33. Well we've been trying to tell them nicely.

We know who are families are.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. I just cover this shit.

But I suspect I will have three hours to write a long analysis piece on this...and the GOP

[Kalidurga]

35. Get em.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Tomorrow in tje plane

[Lorien]

26. The South will go to the Repugs in the general, which leaves her with next to nothing.

why does the DNC still think that she's worth betting on?

[Kalidurga]

37. They don't

Because it doesn't matter to them if we lose this time around, they still got theirs.

[Nyan]

42. DNC and DWS are not counting on democratic candidate's win

They're counting on Wall Street candidate's win. They don't mind giving away 2016 to the repugs.

[Lorien]

48. This is painfully true

I wish that Hillary's supporters would understand this.

[Nyan]

40. Yes, she "won" in IW and MA.

Because those are the states you absolutely need to win, if you know what I mean.

[Cassiopeia]

46. She has serious trouble in blue states

And I imagine many superdelegates are taking note of that fact.

[Garrett78]

50. If IA and MA were virtual ties...

...so was Michigan. And Michigan represents the first diverse, populous blue state primary of this campaign. Way too small of a sample size to say Clinton "has serious trouble in blue states."

And it's important to not conflate the Democratic electorate of the Deep South with the overall electorate of the Deep South.

Time will tell how much Clinton struggles outside of the Deep South. Just as time will tell how successful Sanders can be outside of New England and small caucus states that lack diversity. For now, the sample size is too small to make any determinations one way or another.

[Jitter65]

54. Only in the open primaries. nt

[Cobalt Violet]

55. I feel like they stole MA.

I don't see that she could do so much better here than the rest of New England.

[pdsimdars]

56. The old wisdom applies

You can win some of the poeple . . . . .

[laserhaas]

60. Those "eke" outs are mired in controversy

Just sayin........

[bigtree]

61. I'd hardly call a 2 point race with Bernie in MI 'struggling'

...he was competitive there with independents.

That might not work as well in other states.

[morningfog]

64. LOL!!!! She was up 20 last week. That is is huge struggle. You can't polish this turd.