Democratic South Carolina Primary results thread (polls close @7pm ET)

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Guys my friend is at a university and went along a ballot line, there wasn't a single person over 23 and none of them were voting for Clinton!
Sanders landslide imminent!!!!

Someone else sent me this picture from a polling center.  Where are all the black people???  This is going to be a rough night for Hillary!

Look at all the Iraqi voters voting for Sanders in South Carolina!

This is a random thought, but I wonder if there's a partisan breakdown between Kurdish Iraqi Americans, Sunni Iraqi Americans, and Shi'a Iraqi Americans. I imagine Shi'as and Kurds would be both relatively more Republican and Clinton-friendly, while Sunnis would be relatively more Democratic and Sanders-friendly. Probably just conjecture.

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If Bernie loses by more than -30 today and doesn't win at least VT, MA, MN and CO on Super Tuesday, it might be good game.

I don't think he needs to win MN, seeing as he's down in the polls there.

Like Rubio, though, he really needs to actually win states and get delegates if he wants to go all the way. Not winning Minnesota just means he's going to have to win another, likely less favorable state down the line.

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CNN to make a projection at the top of the hour.

MSNBC too.

Chuck Todd saying he's surprised how small of an effort Sanders made to win SC plus a lot of super Tuesday states.

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Lawrence O'Donnell: Clinton never increases her poll numbers.

Um...

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"Overwhelming victory!"

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If my math is right, the exits have it as:

Clinton 68%
Sanders 31%

Exactly my prediction!

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Any link to an official results page? I'm using Politico, but it doesn't have anything yet.

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TYT coverage (for teh lolz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg8wnIiAhnA

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Hillary at 65.7 in Pickens County.

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Current map:

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Some gems from r/sandersforpresident:

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Clinton managing to give a backhanded swipe to Trump for the whole Corinthians thing while also quoting probably my favorite Bible verse. This is a pretty good speech, imho.

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Clinton on track to get more votes than TRUMP in SC.

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I suspect that those at TYT and other uberliberal sites know it is a fantasy, but since the summer they have been so excited to have a real genuine liberal talking about liberal things every day that they want to keep that party going as long as possible, and part of that is keeping up enthusiasm.  They aren't stupid. They know absent some huge game changing event that Sanders is toast. Sanders knows it too.  But the longer he can go the more his message gets out to more people.

Tonight a VT socialist got half an hour of primetime on CNN giving his stump speech. Every day he loses he gets to do it again. Then they get to go into the convention with maybe 30-40%+ of the delegates and change the Democratic party forever.   That is the goal now and they all know it in their hearts.

Okay. I don't get this. What would Sanders actually change about the Democratic Party? How is his substantively (or to use his words, "revolutionarily") different from the current left wing of the Democrats? This is the party that has elected Elizabeth Warren, Keith Ellison, Al Franken, Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, not to mention Barack Obama. It's not like Bernie Sanders is some Sawant-type Marxist who wants to destroy capitalism and pretty much start over from scratch. Is his speech at the DNC going to actually substantively change anything about the party or its voters? Who might the Democrats nominate in 2020 or 2024 that they might not have voted for this year, but that a Sanders candidacy would bring into the fold?

If the Democrats weren't already at least somewhat the party of Sanders, I probably wouldn't support them.