Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumWe lost this in Flint
Genesee County was supposed to a big vote getter for Hillary, and right now, she's losing it narrowly.
LuvLoogie
(6,855 posts)Hillary is down over 16,000 in Kent county There are still 9 percent of precincts in Wayne to report. Just have to settle with a net gain of delegates I suppose and buckle down for next week.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)Detroit she is at about 60% but she didn't do as well as expected in the counties around Detroit either.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)March 1, 2016
A Flint-focused Democratic ad war between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is expected to intensify in the coming days following Tuesdays multi-state primaries.
Through Sunday, Sanders had outspent Clinton in Michigan $1.2 million to $979,000 on television advertising, airing 675 more spots than Clinton in broadcast TV markets across the state, according to ad tracking data from Kantar Media.
In the Flint TV market, Sanders had aired nearly twice as many ads as Clinton 597 to 304 as the two Democratic contenders jockey for positioning over Flints lead-contaminated water crisis. Both Clinton and Sanders are airing Flint-themed TV ads, but Sanders has ramped up the spending as he seeks to cut into Clintons urban voter base.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/01/sanders-clinton-primary-ads-michigan/81175630/
book_worm
(15,951 posts)and who can blame them if their private polls looked as good as the public ones.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)It's rare to see this kind of disparity and usually reflects the effect of serious negative advertising, which is what the 2-1 ad spending also suggests.
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In any case congrats to Bernie and his supporters.
MSMITH33156
(879 posts)was much closer than the public polls. But I don't think they expected to actually lose. I think they were thinking narrow win. Even Bernie wasn't prepared with a victory speech. Sometimes, it just happens.
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)MSNBC reported the Clinton camp's internal numbers showed it would be very close.