Hillary Clinton Defeats Bernie Sanders In Maryland Primary
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton breezed past Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Tuesdays Maryland primary, handily winning a state in which she had maintained a substantial lead all year.
Major networks called the race soon after polls closed. With 95 pledged delegates at stake, Maryland is the second-biggest prize in the Democratic contests held on Tuesday, after Pennsylvania. All five contests including Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island allocate their delegates proportionally, and Clintons total delegate haul will depend both on her margin of victory in each congressional district, and her overall statewide margin.
Sanders has faced a significant uphill climb on his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination ever since Clintons strong showing in the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries, but has managed to stay in the race with a string of victories in Western states and an upset in Michigan. After a double-digit loss in delegate-rich New York last week, his path to the nomination has hinged on a mathematical fluke that would require lopsided victories in the remaining contests. Clintons victory in Maryland makes the prospect of an eventual Sanders nomination still more implausible.
Maryland was an ideal state for the Clinton campaign. Sanders has struggled to woo black voters away from Clinton throughout the primary contest, and Marylands black population of 29 percent is more than double the national average. Maryland is also home to much of the Washington establishment that Sanders rails against in his stump speeches.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-maryland-primary_us_571f7f18e4b0f309baee89a8
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)contests.
It is the mathematical reality that Hillary is far ahead in the contests that have already occurred.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)bl968
(360 posts)Because if Hillary loses to Trump it's all over for them, they are done forever. 30-40% of the democratic party will not vote for her in the general. Most of the millennials and independents won't as well.
I personally will not vote for any candidate now or in the future who doesn't have a ironclad record, and real progressive agenda for the future. Hillary's I'm a progressive who likes to get things done shtick won't get my vote for her or any other faux progressives. No more DINO's Corporate, or conservative Dems ever!
I feel sad for the future of this country unless Bernie pulls off a miracle. The audacity of hopelessness.
Democat
(11,617 posts)Bye.
Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)They think they're fooling someone.
bl968
(360 posts)Sorry no, I will be writing in Bernie. Only in your head is exercising my right not to vote for Clinton in to a vote for Trump. that's like saying a vote for Clinton is a vote for Trump which would probably be more accurate.
Not unifying behind the party shows who DINO's are. There is MORE to the elections then president. Senate, House, local all tend to turn off coattails of the party.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)Funny thing is some polls have been extended until 9 pm and no results are supposed to be out until after 9 pm.... so how do they know who won yet.
bl968
(360 posts)Maryland · 95 delegates 0% reporting
Candidate Delegates Percentage Votes
Hillary Clinton (won) 46 0.0% 0
Bernie Sanders 17 0.0% 0
Not one single vote has been counted yet she won and has 46 delegates? LOL
well I wont comment on what has been counted or not, my understanding is results are not supposed too be announced until after 9 pm.
RATM435
(392 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)They always back their neighbor DC. And of course wars abroad and at home...it's their meal ticket.
Cha
(297,524 posts)MD Dem Exit poll: 22% of voters identify as "very liberal"; 61% of them voted for Hillary Clinton #DemPrimary
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Minority turnout seems generally up across the board.
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61% "Continue obama's policies" in MD.
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