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Lyin' Steve
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« on: April 05, 2016, 09:04:42 PM »
« edited: April 05, 2016, 11:21:51 PM by Dictator for Life (I - USA) Lyin' Steve »

I thought it was about time we took a look at this:

State-12 Margin= MarginActual Margin
Iowa-7+6-0.3
New Hampshire+17-29+22.4
Nevada-15-3-5.3
South Carolina-23-11-47.5
Alabama-38-27-58.6
Arkansas-31-20-36.6
Colorado+1+13+18.7
Georgia-35-24-43.2
Massachusetts-1+11-1.4
Minnesota+5+17+23.2
Oklahoma-10+2+10.4
Tennessee-16-4-33.7
Texas-32-20-32
Vermont+38+49+72.5
Virginia-21-9-29.1
Kansas+1+13+35.4
Louisiana-33-22-46.9
Nebraska-1+11+14.2
Maine+16+27+28.2
Michigan-1+11+1.5
Mississippi-43-32-66.1
Florida-27-15-31.1
Illinois-15-3-1.8
Missouri-9+4-0.2
North Carolina-12+0-13.8
Ohio-14-2-13.8
Arizona-4+9-17.7
Idaho+11+23+56.8
Utah+2+14+59
Alaska+15+27+63.2
Washington+9+21+45.6
Hawaii+2+14+39.8
Wisconsin+6+18+12.9

I've bolded where he's either dramatically overperformed the tied-race numbers or dramatically underperformed the losing-race numbers.

In summary, he's gotten killed in the south, done well in the midwest, and killed in the "states that only recently joined the union" primaries we've had lately.

Why does he do so well in sparsely-populated states?  I'm predicting Wyoming and the Dakotas will also be blowouts, and he'll do mediocre everywhere else.
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2016, 09:27:17 PM »

Yeah, he still basically has no realistic shot at the nomination. Though it should be noted that the margin in Wisconsin will probably increase a few points once all is said and done.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2016, 11:21:02 PM »

I think the two take aways from this is: first off, don't use the right after the polls close margin for a state, the margin in Wisconsin has tipped towards Sanders since then. Second, 538's estimates for this are kind of hilariously off in many many states in both directions for either the -12 or = margins, so its probably a bit silly to rely on their estimates at this point.
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2016, 11:22:16 PM »

I think the two take aways from this is: first off, don't use the right after the polls close margin for a state, the margin in Wisconsin has tipped towards Sanders since then. Second, 538's estimates for this are kind of hilariously off in many many states in both directions for either the -12 or = margins, so its probably a bit silly to rely on their estimates at this point.

Updated Wisconsin number.  It's still blue.  If the race were tied he'd supposedly be beating Clinton by 18.
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2016, 11:42:07 PM »

These are the Sanders's delegate targets to be leading by 1 delegate without supers at the end (assuming his WI margin doesn't go up once we get the rest of Dane):

http://DemRace.com/?share=qjitJf2b
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