Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Now Needs Landslides to Gain Ground on Hillary Clinton
The trio of elections Tuesday demonstrated just how difficult it is for Bernie Sanders to wrest the Democratic nomination from front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Looked at in isolation, Mr. Sanders had a good night. He won two states; she carried one. But in the end, Mr. Sanders came away with six more pledged delegates on the night than his rival.
That is not enough to significantly dent Mrs. Clintons lead and reach a goal the Sanders campaign has set for itself: persuading superdelegates that he is surging and they should abandon Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Sanders could score several victories in Western states and beyond. But because delegates are awarded proportionately, narrowing Mrs. Clintons delegate lead will require him to notch landslidesnot merely winsto garner big shares of available delegates.
An examination of the 25 contests stretching from now until mid-June shows opportunities for Mrs. Clinton to hold her lead or even build on it. As a presidential candidate in 2008, she faced then-Sen. Barack Obama in each of those states. She won 11 contests; Mr. Obama won 14.
But her 11 victories came in states and one territory, Puerto Rico, that in the 2016 primaries account for a whopping 1,342 delegates. By contrast, the 14 contests she lost in her last campaign offer only 547 delegates this year.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-now-needs-landslides-to-gain-ground-on-hillary-clinton-1458750919
And some upcoming states which have primaries that favored Barack Obama in 2008 such as Kentucky, Maryland and DC are probably solid for HRC.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Them's the realities.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)Sanders won those by landslides, just as he did elsewhere.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511557638
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)400k voted in AZ. 252,352 for HRC
REAL CRUSH!
Starry~http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=80579
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)"Nearly 24,000" people caucused in Idaho for the Democrats. Of which:
Bernie Sanders: 18,640 votes
Hillary Clinton: 5.065 votes
Other Democratic presidential candidates: 179 votes
By comparison...
http://idaho.state-election.info
Ted Cruz: 100,942 votes
Donald Trump: 62,478 votes
Marco Rubio: 35,347 votes
John Kasich: 16,517 votes
Other Republican presidential candidates: 6,929 votes
You know the Democrats are screwed in this state when the front-running Democrat got barely more votes than the fourth-place Republican and close to half as many as the third-place one (who himself got 147 percent of the entire Democratic turnout). Idaho is NO place for a Democrat.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)Two more rallies planned (he just had one last Sunday; he'll now be holding another just a few miles away on Good Friday). This is obviously all with an eye to GOTV. I don't know if he'll actually pull in any new people that he didn't get, and I wonder at what point it becomes saturation. But, he clearly wants to pad his lead in a state he'll most likely win, though I'd dearly like different results.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)if only Democrats were allowed to vote in the Democratic primaries.