Super Tuesday Results Thread

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sanders should run as an independent if he wins California even if he can't win the nomination. Biden is a loser who can barley speak & will get destroyed in the rust belt with his record in NAFTA. Anyone who can't win California in 2020 has no business running in the Dem primary since California is the heart & soul of the Dem party today.

You are effectively proposing that California should be the only state to vote in the Democratic primary.

Biden might not win the primary, but he'd still win the state by a mile in the GE.  So implying he "can't win in California" is ridiculous.

And if you think he'd lose the general election to Trump nationally, getting Bernie to run as an independent is probably the surest way to accomplish that.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Just voted for Tulsi. Not lying when I say I've had more than 10 Trump voting friends post/text today that they crossed over and voted Biden to stop the Communist. The precinct my dad works at, he's guess >50% voters voted for Biden. On the way to vote I heard a black-themed pro-Biden, anti-Bernie ad. Biden may pull this off afterall.

The Trumpers are voting against their interests for November, that's for sure.

Not really.  Tactical voting can have a way of backfiring!  2016 showed us that the unexpected can actually happen, so it makes sense to vote for the "least bad" of the opposition party that you could come closest to living with.

Put it another way: if you were a Republican who voted for Sanders to help him win the nomination, and then he somehow beat Trump... how would you feel about having helped to elect Sanders?

Or the flip side: if you were a Democrat who tactically voted for Trump in the 2016 R primary because you thought he'd be a weak opponent in the fall... how do you feel about having helped to elect Trump?

[GeorgiaModerate]

^ Since when can Dems vote in a Republican primary?

Many states have open primaries.  Here in Georgia, there is no party registration at all; on primary day, you request which party's ballot you want when you vote (i.e. you can't mix voting in some R and some D primaries in the same election).

[GeorgiaModerate]

These exit polls are looking really bad for Bernie. Tonight could be the night Trump wins re-election.

ROFL

[GeorgiaModerate]

Welp guess we get four more years of trump

I just love the implicit assumption by certain posters that their candidate is the only one who can possibly beat Trump.

[GeorgiaModerate]

10 minutes for North Carolina!

Nope, voting was extended until 8:10 EST.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1234996952145616896

I'd guess a lot of that is Republican crossovers.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Democrats could be making the same mistake as 2016...going against the energy candidate..we shall see...

So...many...ellipses...

Biden is the swamp. Easy playbook for Trump.

Don't start.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I was talking to a colleague in Colorado today and he mentioned that in the last few days there were tons of people trying to find out if they could change an early vote that had already been cast (they can't).

[GeorgiaModerate]

The NYT Magic 8-Ball needles are currently showing:

AR: Very likely Biden
CO: Leaning Sanders
ME: Maybe Biden
MA: Maybe Sanders
MN: Probably Biden
OK: Probably Biden
TX: Tilting Biden

[GeorgiaModerate]

James Carville is giddy on MSNBC right now

Well yeah, the commie is getting crushed.

Doesn't mean Biden is the better general election candidate.

You literally just said earlier that you’d rather Bernie win because he’s easier to beat?? Are you a complete idiot or just trolling?

Could be both.  They're not mutually exclusive.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sanders supporters have every right to be upset right now. There is no need to antagonize them. Not only do we need them in the GE, but they are feeling the same way we thought we were going to feel until just 4 or 5 days ago. Let’s not be hypocritical or arrogant

That's exactly what a lot of national dems like Carville are doing tonight though which goes back to my main point about the democrats in 2020 which is I don't see the party uniting to high enough degree to win.

You wouldn't see the Democrat winning in November if Jesus Christ, Ronald Reagan, and FDR all came back to life tomorrow and jointly endorsed him.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Just a reminder that if Warren falls behind Bernie then Biden doesn't have a delegate lead in any state outside the South.

Bernie is still in the lead.

Minnesota and Massachusetts are in the South?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Legitimately curious given the age of all frontrunners:

What happens if the winner dies between Election Day and the counting of electoral votes?

Since the electors are free to switch their votes (faithless elector laws are toothless), they could vote for the VP candidate for President, and a party-designated substitute for VP.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Twitter is having a meltdown. #BernieOrBust is trending as is #DropOutWarren

As others have pointed out, last night was a great demonstration that the resemblance between Twitter and the real world is quite low.