The Primary Isn’t Over: Five theses on the Super Tuesday results.

[Karmadillo]

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/super-tuesday-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democratic-primary/

The Primary Isn’t Over
Five theses on the Super Tuesday results.
by Corey Robin

Bernie Sanders won four states: Oklahoma, Minnesota, Vermont, and Colorado. Hillary Clinton won seven states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. That means, altogether, that Sanders has five states (those four plus New Hampshire), and Clinton has ten states (those seven plus Nevada, Iowa, and South Carolina).

But here’s the critical thing: the elections in Nevada, Iowa, and Massachusetts were either close or extraordinarily close. A little bit more time here, a little bit more organizing there, and they could easily have tipped his way. In other words, Sanders could very easily have seven states now to Clinton’s eight. He doesn’t, and coulda shoulda woulda is just that. But what this does mean, going forward, is that we have the opportunity to turn potential into actual. We’ve got time, we’ve got organizing, we’ve got money: let’s make use of it all.

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Think about it. With the exception of Nevada, the states where there’s been dramatic support for Clinton among non-white voters have all been in the South. And in Nevada, Latino voters almost went for Sanders (although, again, the results have been a source of conflict).

But outside the South and Nevada, there have been primaries in three states that are virtually all white (Vermont, New Hampshire, and Iowa), and three other states that while majority white, have more diverse populations (Colorado, Minnesota, and Massachusetts). In Massachusetts, Sanders got 41 percent of the non-white vote. Compared with all those states in the South, that’s stunning.

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Outside the South, Sanders has won or come very close to winning every single state. From here on out, many of the states are much friendlier territory for him. Unless our brains are so completely scrambled by the Nate Silvers/Voxification of political life — where every poll is a destiny, every superdelegate a fact of nature, where everyone’s a crackpot realist rather than a citizen activist — it would be the definition of insanity to give up now.

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[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Keep going Bernie.

[revbones]

2. Good post.

Can't wait to see the HRC thread police run in and post pictures or whatnot to deflect.

[Lorien]

3. Hillary is ONLY getting solid wins in Red states which will go to repugs

in the General. Bernie is getting solid wins in Blue and swing States. So , once again Hillary fangirls, SHE WILL LOSE IN A GENERAL ELECTION. If you care about this Country you will vote for the candidate who can WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION. Yes, we know that you are conservative (right of center) pro war, pro fracking, pro monsanto, pro walmart "centrists" who really don't like liberals at all, but who would you honestly rather see in office? Bernie Sanders or Trump? Because no matter what you tell yourselves, Hillary will never win a general election. A vote for Hillary is a vote for Trump.

[RobertEarl]

4. It is amazing how far we have come

We will win this. We have to win this. Turnout is the key.

[Godhumor]

5. Hillary is up in the swing states primary

But do go on.