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n2doc

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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:20 AM Mar 2016

Robert Reich: They’ve marginalized Bernie at every turn

“Bernie did well last weekend but he can’t possibly win the nomination,” a friend told me for what seemed like the thousandth time, attaching an article from the Washington Postthat shows how far behind Bernie remains in delegates.

Wait a minute. Last Tuesday, Sanders won 78 percent of the vote in Idaho and 79 percent in Utah. This past Saturday, he took 82 percent of the vote in Alaska, 73 percent in Washington, and 70 percent in Hawaii.

In fact, since March 15, Bernie has won six out of the seven Democratic primary contests with an average margin of victory of 40 points. Those victories have given him roughly a one hundred additional pledged delegates.

As of now, Hillary Clinton has 54.9 percent of the pledged delegates to Bernie Sanders’s 45.1 percent.That’s still a sizable gap – but it doesn’t make Bernie an impossibility.

Moreover, there are 22 states to go with nearly 45 percent of pledged delegates still up for grabs – and Bernie has positive momentum in almost all of them.

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Robert Reich: They’ve marginalized Bernie at every turn (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2016 OP
If they were going to write that Bernie winning 75% of the vote didn't matter BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #1

BernieforPres2016

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1. If they were going to write that Bernie winning 75% of the vote didn't matter
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:48 AM
Mar 2016

They should have written in advance that the primaries in Washington, Alaska and Utah didn't matter. But they didn't want to do that in case Hillary won or made it close.

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