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Related: About this forumHUFFPOLLSTER: Bernie Sanders Won West Virginia, But It Doesn’t Matter
SANDERS WINS WEST VIRGINIA, BUT DOESNT CUT INTO HIS DELEGATE DEFICIT - Mollie Reilly: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won Tuesdays Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia, edging out rival Hillary Clinton for a majority of the states 29 delegates. Its a minor win for Sanders: West Virginia awards delegates proportionately, and while votes are still being counted, hes unlikely to win by enough percentage points to significantly dent Clintons lead in the delegate race. Sanders was expected to do well in West Virginia, where voters are largely white and working class. He also likely benefited from the states primary system, which allows independent voters to vote in either the Democratic or Republican election. More than 250,000 West Virginia primary voters were unaffiliated, according to state data.
Was the Sanders win buoyed by Trump voters? - Philip Bump: Preliminary exit polls numbers that will be re-weighted as votes start coming in suggest that more Democrats who are voting for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday are likely to support Donald Trump in November than Hillary Clinton. But MSNBCs Steve Kornacki tweeted a more remarkable data point: Almost 4 in 10 Sanders voters plan to support Trump over Sanders. There are usually some people in exit poll data who say theyd vote against their preferred candidate in the general election. After all, the general election offers different choices than the primary, and if youre a conservative Democrat, you may think that Sanders is preferable to Clinton or vice versa, but also that a Republican would be preferable to both.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-west-virginia-primary_us_573321e4e4b016f378979da1
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Bernie is playing small ball.. while Hillary has hit several home runs.
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HUFFPOLLSTER: Bernie Sanders Won West Virginia, But It Doesn’t Matter (Original Post)
DCBob
May 2016
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. WOW, truth be told, what a freshing ideal
K & R for exposure
B Calm
(28,762 posts)2. The only home run Hillary won is the over 500 DNC Super Delegate lead she
has enjoyed before the first vote was cast in Iowa.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Yep. That and 12.5 million voters.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)4. Hillary's "home runs"..
TX +72
FL +68
GA +44
AL +35
NY +33
MD +29
VA +29
MS +28
SC +25