2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumResults so far tonight (including those states not decided yet):
Alabama Clinton +60%
Arkansas Clinton +41%
Colorado Sanders +16%
Georgia Clinton +43%
Massachusetts Clinton +3%
Minnesota Sanders +18%
Oklahoma Sanders +10%
Tennessee Clinton +35%
Texas Clinton +36%
Vermont Sanders +72%
Virginia Clinton +29%
An overwhelmingly victorious night for Hillary Clinton.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)First, only three NE states have voted so far, Sanders won two and Clinton is leading in the third, and that third, MA, is bigger than the two Sanders won. Overall Clinton will get more delegates in the three than Sanders. Not "struggling".
Edit: Both CNN and MSNBC have called Clinton the winner of Massachusetts, further belying that "struggle" in the NE.
Second, only two "west" states have voted, Clinton won Nevada and Sanders may win Colorado. If it remains the same, Sanders will get only 10 more delegates than Clinton and with the two added together, Sanders will have only five or six more than Clinton. Again, not "struggling" in the west, and there still are eight or nine more western states to vote.
The net delegates after tonight still are about 550 for Clinton, 350 for Sanders. No "struggle" for Clinton.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)She won MA, but not by a lot.
She struggled to win in NV and lost CO.
I'll at the mid west, where she lost MN and eked out IA. Struggling outside of the south.
George II
(67,782 posts)Slice it and dice it anyway you want, Clinton won almost 200 more delegates tonight than Sanders, and now has about a 220 lead in pledged delegates.
Sanders now has to win 200+ more delegates than Clinton in the remaining 35 states, and she's leading in 34 of them.
Sorry, it's just about over.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)We'll see the final delegate count for tonight later.
riversedge
(70,302 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)He needed to keep it competitive, but he didn't.
Hillary just accumulated a large pledged delegate lead.
With proportional allocation, it's damn near impossible for Bernie to win.