Clinton holds a commanding lead in NC

[Stuckinthebush]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/268639-clinton-leads-sanders-in-north-carolina

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a wide lead over rival Bernie Sanders in North Carolina, according to a new poll.

Clinton is up 26 points among likely Democratic primary voters over rival Bernie Sanders, 55 to 29 percent, in the High Point University poll released Monday.
The survey of 478 likely Democratic primary voters in North Carolina was conducted from Jan. 30 through Feb. 4. It has a 4.5-percent margin of error.

Clinton and Sanders are both campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday ahead of that state's primary on Tuesday. Sanders has a 12.8-point lead over Clinton in the Granite State, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

[UtahLib]

1. Wonderful news! nt

[workinclasszero]

2. Hillary is going to go south and win the primaries!

[NurseJackie]

3. Bernie will not be the nominee. It's as simple as that.

PS: Have you notice that hardly anyone is saying "just-like-2008" any more?

[Treant]

6. Yep.

We're already deviating from 2008 quite significantly.

Although our side is hoping for a NH repeat of 2008 when Clinton beat Obama. I won't be upset if/when it doesn't happen.

[Cha]

4. Good! I see Hillary is back from Flint and in New Hamshire now. Thank you, Stuck!

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. I keep telling you guys that we in NC/SC/VA are here to undo the unthinkable if it should happen.

[Stuckinthebush]

8. Thank you, thank you!

I have a daughter in school in SC. She is loving all of the candidates coming around.

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Thank you, Tarheel! We here in SoCal are waiting to give our delegates

to Hillary but unfortunately, after District of Columbia, we're the last ones.

[stonecutter357]

7. K&R!

[George II]

9. After tomorrow in New Hampshire and then March 1 in Vermont, the only state...

.....in which he's even close to being competitive is Colorado.

He is behind significantly in most other states. One has to finish first in a number of states in order to get enough delegates to be the nominee.

Regardless of how it goes tomorrow, the two candidates will be only 2-4 delegates apart. With a comfortable win in Nevada and then a ~20 point win in South Carolina, Clinton will go into Super Tuesday (when both Vermont and Colorado vote) with about a 20 delegate lead, and she'll increase that by more than 80 delegates.

From that point on, Sanders will probably lose in almost every other state until he concedes, which could come as early as March 15, Super Tuesday II.