Clinton opens up 14 point national lead in Reuters poll.

[kstewart33]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to 14 percentage points, according to an Ipsos/Reuters national poll released Thursday.

The poll showed support for Clinton at 54 percent, while Sanders stood at 40 percent. This is a wider lead for Clinton than in the Ipsos/Reuters poll conducted in mid-February, which showed her leading Sanders 53 percent to 42 percent. This result comes in the wake of a series of major victories for Clinton in state primaries.

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[NurseJackie]

1. Bernie's train is running out of steam, and ... there's a HILL ahead!

Get it? Get it? There's a "HILL" ahead!


(Sophia gets it!)

[timlot]

2. I chuckle'd

[LAS14]

3. Surely someone has said this before????

[riversedge]

4. maybe Shirley did.

[MineralMan]

5. Hillmentum, perhaps...

[NurseJackie]

6. Apparently Bernie fans hate that word ...

... which makes it even more enjoyable to use.

[MineralMan]

7. But it rolls off the tongue so nicely.

What is the delegate lead now? 197? I'll be watching that, I think. Clinton now has 115% of her targeted delegate count. Bernie has 84%.

Unless those percentages change, there's only one candidate with a path to the nomination. I'll just keep watching at:

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/democrats/

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Expected, after the conservative early primaries.

Stacked primary schedule and a MSM all-in for the corporate candidate should be expected to generate this result. Now we see if the progressive side can turn it around. I'm not altogether hopeful, but it's too important a matter to give up.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Kate Smith isn't singing yet, but she is in her dressing room warming up!