Hillary's big victory in Ohio has bigger impact than just the delegates.

[DCBob]

It suggests that she will do well in neighboring Pennsylvania. PA is big with 189 delegates and combined with other big delegate mid-Atlantic states.. MD (95) and NJ (126) which should also go Hillary, that will further cement Hillary's road to the nomination.

Plus New York (247) which should also go to Hillary in a fairly big way, these 4 states could easily net Hillary another 100 delegates.

That will likely offset any gains Bernie might gain from his remaining favorable states.

[Lucinda]

1. Agreed!

[MaggieD]

2. I agree

And I think it's possible future turn out for him may be depressed, especially in caucus states which require quite a bit of time investment to participate.

Time will tell. Ours is on the 26th and I am looking forward to me (and my whole family) caucusing for Hillary!

[bigtree]

3. k&r

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Bernie better get to Philly and start walking the precincts

If he gets shellacked there like in Cleveland, Cincy, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, KC, Boston, Miami, etc., things ain't gonna end well for him in the Commonwealth.

[Mike__M]

5. The big impact I see, beyond the delegates,

does not look good: Both Kasich and Trump, in a four-way race, beat both Clinton and Sanders. Our Democrats are not even the second choice for Ohians.

[DCBob]

7. In a "four-way race" to what??

Hillary will slaughter that vile, ignorant, racist, sexist, megalomaniac.. ie.. Trump.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

8. I agree Mike

The polling place I worked in Ohio yesterday had more D's voting R than I have ever seen. And I don't buy that Kasich is that popular here. Hear some offhand opinions by the voters that were very anti D.

[DCBob]

11. LOL..

Thanks for that bit of "offhand" nonsense.

[geek tragedy]

13. Ohio was ground zero for the "stop trump" campaign amongst the

Republicans.

Part of what drives primary voting is having a strong opinion between the candidates. It very well could be that a lot of Democrats just don't see that much difference between Clinton and Sanders.

[Mike__M]

19. OK. Anti-Trump I can understand.

Kasich doesn't seem too inspiring, even if he is the home-state guy.

[geek tragedy]

20. Kasich is fairly popular there, he's benefiting from Obama's economic policies

More importantly, he was the guy for people who wanted to stop Trump from clinching the nomination. The race would have been over had Trump won.

[CalvinballPro]

15. Don't forget OH is open primary, and a good portion of Kasich votes were from anti-Trump voters

Including many Democrats.

[firebrand80]

6. It's also similar to OH in that

It's the next State where Kasich is planting his "Stop Trump" flag

[DCBob]

9. That's interesting.

Makes sense.

[seabeyond]

10. excellent. I think she has got this from here on out. I feel very confident. Nt

[geek tragedy]

12. the delegate win is the most important part, but it does take away much

of the Sanders' campaigns rationale going forward. Ohio is a state he should have won if he was going to mount any comeback, and instead he got crushed there.

PA, NY, NJ will be even worse--they're big media markets and closed primaries (registered Democrats are generally not feeling the Bern).

[DCBob]

14. Good point about PA, NY, NJ being closed primaries.

That does seem to have a big impact.

[geek tragedy]

16. Clinton won registered Democrats in MI. She's won them in every state but NH and Vermont.

Florida was a closed primary. We saw the results.

[CalvinballPro]

17. I'm registered in NJ and ready for Hillary! nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Welcome back above ground

[geek tragedy]

21. one reason Democrats are better than Rs--we embrace amnesty nt

[bobbobbins01]

22. I'm from PA and many residents would say comparing them to OH is blasphemous.

PA might go for Bernie out of sheer spite.

[DCBob]

23. LOL.

So take your pick.. you are surrounded by Hillary states.

[bobbobbins01]

24. Ohio is the only border state that has voted.

But she can have NJ. NY is going for Bernie.

[DCBob]

25. How about NJ and MD?

Those are going Hillary as is NY. You are surrounded!

[bobbobbins01]

26. Nah, Bernie has NY and WV.

You can keep NJ.

[DCBob]

28. Oh yeah.. WV loves Bernie.

[Bleacher Creature]

27. The moment they called OH, the entire race felt over.

Clinton was the prohibitive favorite even before OH was called, but the symbolism of her taking a hugely important swing state felt like the final nail in the coffin.

[LuvLoogie]

29. Bernie's right-wing, open primary crossover cavalry

will return to its GOP garrisons. About 35 to 40 percent of Bernie's base is purely anti-Hillary. A big portion of that are the Right trying to stick it to Hillary. They will begin to agree that she is going to be the nominee and will not have the motivation to stir the pot as their party goes off the rails.

[DCBob]

30. Yes, I felt the same.

That was the biggie last night.