CA Dem primary votes FULLY COUNTED, including provisionals and mail-ins.

[pnwmom]

Hillary won by 7.1 percent (53.1 to 46), or about 364K votes.

http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/party/democratic/


http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2016-primary/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf

(All the columns in the second link show zeroes because all ballots have been counted.)

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Nicely done Madame President!

[iandhr]

9. Don't jinx it.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. I'm not the superstitious type.

Never have been.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. Thank you for the update, pnwmom. Much appreciated!

[pnwmom]

5. You're welcome. It was kind of amazing tonight

looking at that second link and seeing all those zeroes!

[brooklynite]

3. So, Bernie still has a chance?

[sarae]

10. lmaooo

[Retrograde]

20. Since Hillary's lead narrowed from 12% to 7%

in 4 weeks of counting, clearly another 8 or so weeks will show Bernie in the lead!

[BobbyDrake]

58. By this time next year, he'll be up by 10 points! Lol nt

[LiberalFighter]

21. You know he thinks he does.

I'm also sure if I say anything else I will be alerted.

[sheshe2]

22. Chances are~

[Sancho]

4. Glad that's over...no more speculation.

[CrowCityDem]

6. Look at that, they got the call right the first time.

[seabeyond]

12. Yes they did get the call right, right off the bat. Nt

[Ken Burch]

15. But it wasn't a landslide.

And at 46% in Cali, Bernie clearly improved his showing among at least some POC. You don't get almost half the vote in the Democratic presidential primary in the Golden State on young white guys alone.

[seabeyond]

16. Oh Burch.... Seriously? Move that goal post. No thanks. I have listened to false accusations,

implications and lies about this damn state. They called it correctly. Clinton won. Done. All the shit that was being ramped up to blame Dems of nefarious behavior was once again, a flat out fuckin lie.

[Ken Burch]

19. I agree that she won and congratulated her in another post. The point is he wasn't humiliated there

Your candidate is the nominee. You've got no good reason to attack Bernie any more. It doesn't make any difference whether the endorsement is before the convention or at the convention.

[seabeyond]

27. Humiliate? Who is having that conversation, but you?

[pnwmom]

29. You do when you get the votes of lots of white Independents. n/t

[Hortensis]

59. Yes. California's more thoughtful conservative

indies had no one to vote for on the Republican ticket, as usual these days, and many of them crossed the ballot. If only Democrats voted in California's Democratic Party primary, the results would be very different.

Nevertheless, the primary is semi-open--for indies, and Sanders did do very well. A finish only 7% down is a very respectable showing.

[workinclasszero]

39. Yeah, how about that?

The bros haz a sad today I bet!

[Thinkingabout]

7. Good, glad this has concluded, now it is time to move on to the General Election.

[RandySF]

8. .

[Ken Burch]

13. Congrats on her win. But it's good that we made sure all the votes were counted.

And this hows the result in CA wasn't a landslide humiliation for Bernie.

He made a respectable showing in the state.

[seabeyond]

17. No one was concerned all votes would not be counted. No one was asking all votes not be counted.

No campaign "owns" the desire for ALL votes to be counted.

[LiberalFighter]

24. You are absolutely right.

Not having the votes counted would had made the allocation of delegates a farce for both sides. For me as a geek, I am interested in having the correct data as it makes proper correlation to the past.

[seabeyond]

28. And that is cool. We knew going in, Ca took time. Didn't mean Sanders would sweep

the remaining votes to a win, or anyone was stealing anything. We knew Calif took time. We also knew that Clinton had won California the night of.

[NCTraveler]

44. " But it's good that we made sure all the votes were counted."

They weren't not going to be counted.

[Ken Burch]

45. Actually, there were posts on DU that said in past elections

in some states, they didn't count all the absentee or challenged votes if it looked as though there weren't enough of them to affect the outcome.

And I did congratulate HRC on her win in California, let it be noted.

[NCTraveler]

46. "There were posts on DU"

That's all it takes to sell me.

[AntiBank]

49. there were a lot of them

I am sure you can go fetch if you really care.

[NCTraveler]

57. Had me sold before you even told me it was "a lot".

Deal sealed.

[pnwmom]

55. Maybe that applies to "some states" but it doesn't to California. n/t

[CreekDog]

47. You did no such thing. The votes were counted because that's the law in California.

Don't pat yourself on the back for what happens in every California election.

[pnwmom]

52. We didn't "make sure." California always counts its ballots, and the reason

it takes so long is because they count all the provisional ballots, routinely, after checking to make sure the voter is registered, and they accept mailed in ballots till three days after the primary.

Millions of paper ballots take a long time to verify, count, and re-check.

[CreekDog]

60. and they allow parties to observe the count

[LongtimeAZDem]

14. The FiveThirtyEight "Polls Plus" forecast was 53.2% to 44.7%; pretty darn close (nt)

[pnwmom]

18. Yes -- they did an excellent job with their forecasting this year. n/t

[Retrograde]

23. BTW, it wasn't just a Democratic primary

All 6 registered parties had primaries for their presidential candidates. There were also open primaries for a number of other offices on the ballot.

In the race for who gets to lose to Nancy Pelosi in November the 2nd and 3rd finishers are only 50 votes apart (in CA, the top two finishers in the primary go on to the general election). I love all the trivia at that site!

[UtahLib]

25. Good to have that settled.

[stopbush]

26. I called it back on June 5:

1. Except it isn't tightening. Hillary will win easily.

Minimum of 7 points, but more likely double digits.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=157240

[Hekate]

30. Thank you, pnwmom

[Vattel]

31. wow, only a 7 point difference

[pnwmom]

33. LOL

[NCTraveler]

43. That's mean. nt.

[Cha]

32. Yay California! Gracias, pmwmom!

[cosmicone]

34. Recount fairy died

the day after her sister indictment fairy.

[pnwmom]

35. Which was the week after

the Benghazi panel fairy.

[workinclasszero]

40. Good riddance to them both!

Two primary memes I'm sick of for sure!

[Cali_Democrat]

54. LOL

[David__77]

36. Clinton got more votes than Sanders.

I was pleased to vote for Sanders. And the outcome is what it is.

[GulfCoast66]

50. Excellent post

Why does the internet bring out the worst in us. Including me. I have had 2 post rightfully hidden due to an attack on a fellow DU member. I totally respect your vote and would have happily voted for Sanders had he won.

[G_j]

37. 46%

that is absolutely spectacular! bravo!

[still_one]

53. yes it is. It was a hard fought contest, no one can deny that

[BlueMTexpat]

38. Thanks, pnwmom!

And I just saw a response earlier today that asserted that there were still 1 million CA votes waiting to be counted.

There was no link.

[MineralMan]

41. I'm glad that's finally settled.

[NCTraveler]

42. Now that is a strong finish. Really took all of the primary arguments away from Sanders.

Really wasn't close.

[andym]

48. I almost called it on election day after the initial count: predicted 54/46

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2155550
Just assumed her 400K margin would hold over the expected total vote, given 50/50 returns on voters voting on election day itself.

[SheilaT]

51. Counting all the votes really does matter.

[Cali_Democrat]

56. The votes were always going to be counted. All of them. nt