HRC did get 57% of Democratic vote. Sanders pulled ahead with "independents"
... I wonder how many "independents" were Republicans for Bernie..
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-won-57-of-michigan-democrats-but-independents-took-it-for-bernie-sanders/24060/
Bernie Sanders won the Michigan democratic primary by receiving fifty percent of the vote, while his opponent Hillary Clinton received just forty-eight of the vote. Pollsters and analysts have been scrambling to figure out why their predictions, which said Hillary would win the state by around fifteen percent, turned out to be so wrong. But one key detail fully explains why they were off by such a large margin: she won the democratic vote handily, but he dominated with independents.
It turns out Hillary Clinton received 57% of the votes of Michigan democrats, with Bernie Sanders receiving just 41% according to CNN. In other words, her sixteen percent margin of victory with democrats was right in line with what the pollsters predicted. But because Michigan is an open primary which allows people of any stripe to vote in either the democratic or republican primary, large numbers of independents voted on the democratic site – and seventy-one percent of them voted for Bernie.
That alone was enough to erase what would have been a sixteen point blowout victory for Hillary, and instead it handed Bernie a two point victory. The rules in Michigan allowed it; there was no cheating or fraud involved. But it does force us to look at the Michigan upset in a different light. What it means is that the pollsters weren’t actually wrong about democrats – and none of those democrats changed their minds.
So while Bernie has to be feeling good that his persistent effort at getting non-democrats to turn out for him in Michigan paid off, the numbers tell us that he wasn’t able to change the minds of any democrats over the past weeks. Michigan democrats still voted for Hillary in as much of a blowout margin as they spent the past few months telling us they would in the polls.
In other words, Bernie isn’t changing anything in the democratic race. He’s merely supplementing his vote total with the support of outsiders, in the states where the law allows for it. Unfortunately for him, only seven of the nation’s twenty-nine remaining states have open primaries, and most of those seven have at least some provisions making it harder for independents to vote in the primary than Michigan does. In other words, this isn’t the start of a trend for Sanders, but rather the culmination of a one-trick pony type of strategy he employed.
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let him find out slowly. 
than the GOP and Democratic registered ones combined.
And they split down the middle pretty evenly supporting rightist and leftist politicians.
Furthermore, closed primary states still allow for voter registration months before the actual primary so many independents have re-registered as Democrats in order to vote. I have done so in Arizona and helped to push the drive to measure many, many more.
This new meme that all independents who voted for Sanders are 'closet Republicans' is just flat out bullshit. The meme that states that closed primaries are somehow markededly different than open primaries is also flat out bullshit. It does not comport to the facts as they stand.
Finally, Daily News Bin is another site like Blue Nation Review which were set up last summer with ties to the Clinton campaign. This is not a legit news site but rather a propaganda arm of the Clinton Machine. 
In my open primary state, as in Michigan, you don't have to declare yourself a Democrat, or Republican, or Independent. No one would know what I call myself 
will be voting for Sanders in the General also. He is bring people over to his side. Something Clinton can't do.
the article the OP is based on is listed as opinion and contains no link to CNN, something reputable sources do when they're quoting another source-operation chaos indeed 
If only the General were democrats-only, aye?
