Democratic Super Tuesday results thread (first polls close at 7pm ET)

[Ogre Mage]

Clearly, Sanders' performance in CO/MA/MN/OK/VT wasn't bad at all. It was his crushing losses in the South that made it a bad night for him. Case in point, the biggest mistake of the Sanders campaign was only focusing on states he thought he could win. In a proportional system, it's worth your while to invest in Texas, even if it's not a state you can win. Better to lose by 15% than 35%.

Ironically, the Sanders Campaign mistake in 2016 was the same mistake the Clinton Campaign made in 2008 (although it was the caucus states she ignored in 2008 rather than writing off a region).  She learned from last time.

[Ogre Mage]

In terms of the headlines, Sanders had a pretty good night -- he won 4 states.  But in terms of the delegate count Hillary was the runaway winner.  As others have said, the major factor here was Hillary's blowout wins in the southern states.  In the biggest delegate prize, Texas, she is currently winning 66-33.  In the second biggest state, Georgia, she slayed 71-28.  Alabama is an average-sized state but she won by a ridiculous 78-19 which is a big delegate advantage.  In fact, because Bernie is below 20% I believe he gets no delegates from that state.  Clinton gets no delegates from Vermont but that is Bernie's home state and a small state with not many delegates at stake.

[Ogre Mage]

It is time for everybody to start uniting around Hillary Clinton in the fight to stop Trump. Sanders has, actually, performed an important role so far, in making the Democratic primary contested and in the news: this is always good for an eventual nominee. I hope he continues in the race: his presence has been beneficial. But we should not be losing the main objective: Trump has to be stopped. At this point, all sane people should not lose track of this prime objective.

Totally agree with that.

I agree also.  We have to stop Trump and take control of the Supreme Court.  And Clinton has been doing very well with nonwhite voters that Trump keeps making denigrating remarks about.