Democratic Ides of March Tuesday results thread (first polls close at 7pm ET)

[RaphaelDLG]

NBC News Toplines:

NC Clinton 54% - Sanders 42%
FL Clinton 64% - Sanders 36%

Jesus, Florida is a BLOODBATH!!!

[RaphaelDLG]

Hillary ahead early in Missouri as well 65% to 30%.  This is a slaughter.

Clinton will always be way ahead in early voting

[RaphaelDLG]

Thank you for your diligent calculations/postings of exits/toplines, Mr. Morden!  What are the most-up-to-date TLs in all five states?

[RaphaelDLG]

1) Hilldog is really a way, way worse option than Bernie

2) At the same time, if Bernie supporters seriously think the correct response is to vote for Trump or not vote, they are ing fools.  Clinton is competent, intelligent, way more liberal than the Repubs, and will take care of Supreme Court business.

3) In general people need to be less childish/impatient and recognize that actual change happens with consistent dialogue, protest, and voting in ALL elections, whether midterm, primary, general, local, federal over many, many years, not just freaking out over one dude in one primary.

[RaphaelDLG]

1) Hilldog is really a way, way worse option than Bernie

2) At the same time, if Bernie supporters seriously think the correct response is to vote for Trump or not vote, they are ing fools.  Clinton is competent, intelligent, way more liberal than the Repubs, and will take care of Supreme Court business.

3) In general people need to be less childish/impatient and recognize that actual change happens with consistent dialogue, protest, and voting in ALL elections, whether midterm, primary, general, local, federal over many, many years, not just freaking out over one dude in one primary.

I agree with you so much on #3. If Bernie people directed even a fraction of their effort for Bernie that they did on Congress, they could make some major positive change. But it's hard for a lot of people to understand there's more to government than a president. I blame our education system.

Strongly, strongly agree with your point on the importance of better civic education and its inverse link with our lackluster, anemic democracy.  As a educator/researcher/writer, improving civic education is basically the cause of my life.

Thanks for your often very intelligent, often very fair posts, and thanks for voting!  

Assuming I move to state that's not R+12 this fall, I will avoid the urge to indulge myself by voting for Stein and will diligently vote for your candidate and encourage my friends to also do so.