2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMichigan LOVES to f*** with the rest of the world!
It's our specialty and our passion. We will NEVER let the rest of you figure us out!
Go Bernie! Go Bernie! Go, go, go Bernie!
Armymedic88
(251 posts)I can say so far I'm proud of that state up north!!! Lol
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Especially if you are in Columbus!
Armymedic88
(251 posts)Ask any grade school kid what they want to be when they grow up. Answer: A Buckeye!
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Sorry, got carried away. So happy for Michigan's turnout tonight. But as a former resident of Ohio & current resident of Illinois, I can't wait to see what my states bring for Bernie. I think OSUs marching band should wake everyone up and March them to the polls. #hugefan they're my favorite part of my memories from the shoe.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)His 538 picked Hillary by 28 points. Good job!!!!
John Poet
(2,510 posts)I've been sick of Nate's noise for a while.
People are not statistics. People are not 'math'.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Don't dance too soon.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)But it's at least going to be way closer than was expected.
But it's likely Mrs. Clinton still wins more delegates on the night.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)27 years--well, 21 voting years--I was expecting it as soon as I heard the turnout was ridiculous in some of the small blue collar burbs around Detroit. Lots of us never registered but always voted and donated time and $$ to Dems.
Ask PassingFair about the time we were canvassing our neighborhood for Kerry, and I showed up on her swing list. (it's because I would sometimes throw a vote away for university regents)
gollygee
(22,336 posts)1. Yesterday when I drove my kids to their piano lesson and saw a ton of Bernie signs where I didn't expect too many Bernie voters.
2. When I went to vote this morning and there was a line, and a lot of new voters, and everyone seemed to want Democratic ballots.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)So proud of y'all.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Did you see what Grand Rapids did? Good Lord, it put even us in Ann Arbor to shame!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Bernie has surpassed all expectations tonight.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)But he'll likely finish the night with a net loss of delegates.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)The Democratic Party should be a party of the people, not of the party leadership.
Win or lose, what it definitely will do is put the realization in some super delegates' that tying themselves too close to Sec Clinton may be bad for their careers.
Sen Sanders is inspirational. Sec Clinton, alas, is not. I supported her at first. But when she said something along the lines that "You can only change systems, not people", I knew right then and there I had to get over my phobia about the "S" word and support Sen Sanders.
dinkytron
(568 posts)like blow hards or bullshitters.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)We are picked on, insulted, and as independent in spirit as it gets.
Bernie will trounce any Pub here. Hillary will bring out our purple.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)...with reference to Truman's famous quote.
And we don't particularly being told what we're going to do.
anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)be able to vote for Hillary in the general. I told them that it was too close for those kind of games! Ah well...you gotta love proportional delegates.