2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumABC News: Why Hillary Clinton Has the Upper Hand on Super Tuesday and Beyond
Feb 23, 2016, 12:34 PM ET
After two razor-thin victories for Hillary Clinton and one blowout for Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are separated by just one pledged delegate.
But maybe not for long.
Notwithstanding Clintons significant superdelegate advantage over Sanders, next on the calendar is the South Carolina Democratic primary. Clinton is expected to win there by double digits, thanks to her large support from African Americans, who made up more than half of the states Democratic electorate in 2008.
And on March 1 -- also known as Super Tuesday -- Democratic voters in 11 states will head to the ballot boxes. Seven of those Democratic contests are in the South, where many analysts believe that the large African-American and Hispanic populations will create a firewall for Clinton.
In several of those states -- Alabama, Georgia and Texas -- more than half of the 2008 Democratic electorate was nonwhite. Furthermore, these states are much more moderate. At least six in 10 voters from 2008 were moderates -- not liberals -- in Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. These two groups are likely to boost Clinton to victories in most of these states.
more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-upper-hand-super-tuesday/story?id=37136465
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The video at the link talks about a 30-point lead in SC and a Morgan Freeman-narrated ad naming several recent victims of police violence. I'm not gonna say it's over but folks this parrot is dead.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Damn straight.
Time to prepare for the GE.
hoosierlib
(710 posts)brooklynite
(94,598 posts)hoosierlib
(710 posts)though she'll probably just get pardoned or the DOJ will just shrug its shoulders...
BTW, if you don't like people criticizing Shrillary, please go to your safe place...
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)I'm happy to listen to people who disagree with me...even juvenile ones.
hoosierlib
(710 posts)Okay, one was kinda an insult...but she is under investigation and could face jail time...
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)hoosierlib
(710 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)We can only hope. She will NOT win the GE if nominee. Jill Stein stands a better chance.
hoosierlib
(710 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Thanks Sanders fans!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)No need to thank us.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
pandr32
(11,588 posts)It rounded off to 6 points--a substantial win. Let's quit pretending her campaign is still in trouble. That was so last year.
Go Hillary!
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)All The Good | Hillary Clinton
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I had seen the ad here, but I saw it on TV for the first time this afternoon (NYC/NJ area). I was surprised because the NY and NJ primaries are not until April 19 (NY) and June 7 (NJ).
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)FEBRUARY 23, 2016
A Huge Week for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
BY JOHN CASSIDY
In the Democratic race, Clinton appears to have an even bigger lock on the South than Trump does. I already mentioned the new poll from Georgia, showing her more than fifty points ahead of Sanders. In other Southern states, too, she appears to have commanding leads. According to a multi-state survey carried out last week by Public Policy Polling, she is ahead by twenty-eight points in Alabama, twenty-six points in Tennessee, twenty-five points in Arkansas, and twenty-two points in Virginia. Clinton is benefiting in these states from overwhelming African American support, P.P.P.s Tom Jensen said in a statement. She leads by anywhere from 40-62 points among black voters in the nine of these states that have more black voters than the national average.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-huge-week-for-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton
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Beacool
(30,250 posts)That should give her a good amount of pledged delegates.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)It figures she's ahead.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Unbelievable how obviously the GD rules are violated every day with this shit.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)The corporate media and the corporate money. So proud of you!
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)She's managed to make news with her latest comeback so they're cutting her a little slack but they'll return to VRWC duty at their earliest convenience. On the other hand they do employ Stephanoplous. a loyal Clinton partisan, but when he started he was thought to be Hillary's mortal enemy. Didn't last long did it.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)You mean possible indictment?
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)The next eight years are going to be like that. She'll never be out of the woods and as soon it looks like she might be they'll move the trees. But Bill got through it and Hillary learned to deal with it. Will she be impeached? Probably, and more than once. Will she leave office? Highly unlikely.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Hillary has always been the front runner and I fully expect her to win the nomination.
Impedimentus
(898 posts)or CBS, or NBC or FOX or ...
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I've lived a life that's full
I've traveled each and every highway . . .