Democratic Freak States Holy Saturday results thread (1st caucuses begin @1pmET)

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Well it helps that caucuses are designed to heavily disenfranchise wide swaths of the electorate. If this were a primary then Clinton would only be losing by 10% or so, I would guess. In 2008 Obama won the WA caucus by nearly 40%, but only won the primary by 6%.

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Bernie is on track to bag 180-200 of the 290 delegates at stake in the next 3 weeks and cut Hillary's margin to around 150-200 (1.300 vs. 1.100) by Mid-April.

If it weren't for the stubborn superdelegates and minority voters, it would be a real race ...

Yeah if only the base of the Democratic Party weren't voting in the Democratic Party primaries, Bernie would have a shot!

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Is Seattle going to be the first major urban center to go for Bernie? Because pretty much all big cities that have voted so far have gone for Clinton, even Boston.

He won Austin.

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Why do these wealthier precincts vote clinton when sanders is less religious?

Because they don't want Sanders to drive them into bankruptcy with his insane tax plans?

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Soccer moms work too.

And, unlike Bernie's college student base, actually vote in midterm elections as well. Reorienting the party towards young people is stupid.

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Soccer moms work too.

And, unlike Bernie's college student base, actually vote in midterm elections as well. Reorienting the party towards young people is stupid.

Nobody said college students, Comrade Funk said labor, a group that does vote in midterms.

Well good thing labor unions have overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton then.

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Soccer moms work too.

And, unlike Bernie's college student base, actually vote in midterm elections as well. Reorienting the party towards young people is stupid.

Nobody said college students, Comrade Funk said labor, a group that does vote in midterms.

Well good thing labor unions have overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton then.

There is a difference between union leaders and everyday union members. That being said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union just endorsed Sanders.

The everyday union members have mostly supported Clinotn as well.

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I'm prepared to hold my nose and vote for either candidate in November, but let's dispel with this fiction that Clinton is more electable than Sanders. The polls simply prove that wrong. The only two things Hillary has going for her in GE electability are support from neocons (who are starting to openly endorse her) and the fact that her reputation among independents is so damaged that even the dirtiest attacks from Trump cannot make it any worse. (which is actually quite a compelling argument in her favor, but still)

You are joking, right? Those polls don't mean sh*t as Sanders has never been attacked from Hillary or the Republicans.

Yes, he has. Sure, he hasn't been attacked as much as Clinton has, but he's definitely been attacked.

He really hasn't. Clinton's sparred with him a bit in debates, but that's about it. He hasn't had a single negative ad ran against him.

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Such a reverse sweep isn't happening and you know it. NY, PA, CA, MD, DE and NJ aren't 90%+ White so Bernie won't win there. I don't give a sh*t about Clinton losing Alaska, Montana or Idaho lol.

Alaska is only 62% non Hispanic white. Bernie is probably winning the Native population big time.

Sanders has never had a problem winning Native American voters in the primaries.

I haven't looked at precinct data, but she won Apache and Navajo counties like huge margins in Arizona, both heavily Native American.

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Lyndon and Smith really are best friends here.

But why have O'MALLEY on the ballot? It makes no sense honestly.

Because he paid the money to be on the ballot.