Go Bernie Go!!

Colorado is feeling the Bern (and that could be quite interesting in that state!)

Ok, that song isn't really a good fit, but it's the one that came to mind.

John Denver wrote it. Mary Travers did a magnificent recording of it.

If Colorado is Sanders country, then thank you Colorado. Especially, thanks to all the folks none of the rest of us have met but who worked the neighborhoods knocking on doors and making calls. That effort didn't go for nothing -- you helped changed your country this evening.

All the rest of us far away from the Front Range tonight say thank you.

Always loved that John Denver song. I think we can guess which is the Eagle and which is the Hawk.

probably is the one.

I was never hogwild about John Denver but am forced to admit the rascal wrote some darn fine tunes.

Go! Bernie! Go!

way too much shit I am looking at

But in the completely cynical view of the world, this places this election into real competition. She needed to sweep every state. and she did not. I got a feeling MN is going to go to Bernie, decisively and MS is close, either way he gets large swath of delegates. Fun fact, if it remains under 15 percent in VT, no delegates for her.

And this is just the math. I will have to write the story going into delegates not who won what, in the morning.

Also fun fact, she has run out of money. LA Times reported that about two weeks ago, and this is when Obama became competitive, outside of the conservative south.

Bernie does not have to go back to Goldman Sachs etc to keep it going. That would be something if Hillary doesn't get the 15% in VT.

Just saying

it's good enough for Hillary.

Yet still in the majority of delegates. Was it wall St donors that made this true? I'm not so sure I buy that notion.

It's not even close.

I realize Bernie supporters have a lot of hatred for Obama. It's one of their distinguishing characteristics, especially here on DU. It's also part of what makes up Bernie's Achilles heel.

97% reporting and Hillary still has only 13.6%

in primary states.

gave all delegates to Sanders. I know 10 is not that many, but they add up.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

Now we pivot towards the Democratic states.

VA was a bit of an upset for me tonight. However, there are a lot of voters there that have a vested interest in Hillary winning. They're in the tax bracket with portfolios that may have to contribute something closer to a fair share if Sanders wins.

After the presidential poll, we have to do same process all over again for like 5-9 other races (depending on your county).

The several other races are: congressmen/women, state legislators, district attorneys, university regents

Then we elect the delegates and equal number of alternates (for EVERY race listed above) which takes a full hour, because everyone keeps asking which assembly, which convention, where is that one, what date is that - that part is remarkably tedious.

THEN,THEN, then when everyone just wants to go home, that is when we get to have a NINE page Colorado party platform read to us to accept or object to any parts (even though accepted/rejected year after year), then people get opportunity to propose resolutions to add to the platform. In my precinct people proposed resolutions :/

It is truly democracy in action in some ways, and in others, it's a hot, chaotic mess. Needs more cowbell (technology could do a lot to update and simplify this process)

THEN the worksheet totals get called in to the Dem party. So, all of that to say that very few places are able call any numbers in until 9pm.

Enjoyed it/hated it. Hard to explain.

NPR has been subtly dissing Bernie and seemed quite satisfied that he only had 2 states. Well now he's got three -- and some Bernie-friendly states coming up!

But winning 3 to 4 is more then I expected.

a Hill supporter was calling MA for her. I hope not; I think of MA as good progressive Dems and intelligent people.

That's why we went for Hillary

...and I don't think all the votes from Cambridge are in yet. I don't see Harvard & M.I.T. giving Hillary too many votes.

Critical thinking (real critical thinking) may result in non obvious perspectives

But hey, what the heck do I know.

But then, you support the corrupt liar, so pardon me if I don't care, either.

They likely transcend the "she's a corrupt liar" line of analysis. That's a simpleton view that isn't based on fact; rather it is something conjured by drawing unfounded conclusions based on logical fallacies.

But hey, what the heck do I know.

Do "they" feel less insecure after dropping the names Harvard and MIT?

But hey, what the heck do I know (about Harvard and MIT).

Colleges filled with children of the wealthiest in the nation....

The University of Chicago.

Everyone here is happy for Bernie and you seem to want to rain on our parade. Why? Is there something about the Hillary campaign that does that to people?

The post I replied to implied Hillary supporters in MA are not intelligent, and I do object to that.

and who understand what our nation's founders wanted for us -- and who know something about the candidates -- would prefer Bernie. I've been to Boston and Cambridge a few times on business and visiting smart progressive friends, and was impressed with all the colleges & universities in the area, and that, combined with a few other things, gave me the impression that MA would probably go for Bernie.

in the big picture. I think she may be right, but at least I can use this to get to be more participatory in the future.

Sagewood Middle School
Hillary 145 and Bernie 132. Plus I was elected to be one of the two delegates from my precinct to cast our votes at the county convention for Bernie. Woot!

and I live in an area with a large Hispanic population. I very much felt like he had their support.

Go Bernie!

Our precinct is sending one delegate for Bernie and two for Hillary. We had 25 show up in a very small precinct. 10 votes for Bernie, 13 Hillary, 2 uncommitted. I'm an alternate to the county assembly for Bernie Sanders. I hear the caucuses are packed! That's feeling the Bern!

They call MA but not CO? Ridiculous..

surface area, so they'll show up on all the talking-head maps

for doing your small part. Woo hoo! Celebrating with you. Woo hoo!

How times change.

In 4 years we should get rid of caucuses.

I've left celebratory threads alone for you guys.

Everyone should have the ability to vote in private and to have their vote counted properly.

Am I happy about this win? Yes. Do I agree with the process? No.

But I still think caucuses are total bullshit.

My job is done, btw, now I can sit back and watch, as I always do, every election year (except for 2014; couldn't be active), as faux progressives fail to pull their states or make excuses like "we are a red state" or some such nonsense.

Good work.

big win for the next president...

Alaska, Washington, Oregon and... California?

Problem is, the beltway conventional wisdom types seem to know as much about the West as they do about Mars.

Hillary won Alaska. I live in Oregon. It will be close here but I'm banking on Hillary. ( pun intended) Lol.

And frankly Hillary's answers on both havent exactly been inspiring stuff.

If you're supporting HRC here in OR, you're honestly the first one Ive come across. Everyone I know is for Sanders, although we're so late in the process it is not likely to make a difference.

Either way I hope that folks like Blumenauer or Merkeley or Newsom can leverage enough power to get a pro-legalization plank into the platform, if for no other reason than to see Debbie "medical marijuana users belong in prison" Wasserman Schultz's face.

I am super happy about marijuana being legal here now and I do not use, never have. I honestly do not know Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s position on pot. I am glad it's legal for recreational use now. That is my position. I'm glad we are looking into exonerating previous pot convictions too.

Law.

She also has repeatedly voted for criminalization not just of recreational marijuana, but also medical.

If this ad is true, then she needs to go!! Locally, I have seen great progress already in the legalization of pot. I'll give you one example... In East Portland the police would randomly detain young men for nothing more than walking to catch a bus or go to the store, search them and if they had pot.. that gave cops an easy arrest. There is an FBI probe into that BTW... That has nearly stopped almost over night!

New York is where Wall Street is located.
All bank transactions are digitized.

I don't think Texas will ever legalize marijuana.
Well, not until the Supreme Court strikes down all of those laws on the books against it.

And that could take years and years.

Or at least I think it is.