Not sure if this means anything but Sanders got more votes in SC this time than in 16 even with

[Quixote1818]

so many more people in the race. He got 96,000 in 2016 and so far has over 100,000 with 95% reporting this round. If anything, it's a tribute to the amount of people who came out for everyone this time compared to 2016. About 500,000 came out this year compared to only about 370,000 in 16. An increase of about 130,000.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Carolina_Democratic_primary

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNSTuEQN9mUscaaLqSjW_pttV1nS1A%3A1583035485445&source=hp&ei=XTRbXt-EGPG7tgWwvK7QCw&q=south+carolina+results&oq=south+carolina+results&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i131j0i324l2j0i3l6j0i131.3690.8180..9293...1.0..0.338.2722.14j6j0j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i39j0j0i131i67j0i67j0i20i263.qoJr_YriUVk&ved=0ahUKEwifp5jesvjnAhXxna0KHTCeC7oQ4dUDCAg&uact=5

[blm]

1. Trump has given thousands of reasons to vote him out.

Some people didn’t see the threat as starkly as they do now.

[Codeine]

2. He garnered a nice chunk of the

Republican vote this time. I’m sure that buoyed his numbers a bit.

[Vivienne235729]

16. +1000 yep. Was thinking the same thing.

[RockRaven]

3. If you believe Repuke blowhards, he also got a lot of GrOPers voting for him b/c of the open primary

Now, that leaves open the question how many Repukes actually followed through with their boasts, or following that path like sheep. But a few thousand more votes than last time seems like not very much of a big deal, GrOPer interference or not.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Alternatively, total votes up 130k, Bernie up 5k

[Happyhippychick]

10. This. And likely thousands were repuke crossovers. But it's a good try!

[TwilightZone]

5. So, Biden got more votes today than Sanders got in '16 and '20 combined.

The turnout is a good sign. Hope for the same or better in November.

[dware]

6. Yeah, and a whole bunch of those were Republican votes,

at the urging of the Mango Menace.

What would his totals be if SC wasn't an open primary?

[brooklynite]

7. Meanwhile, he got fewer votes in NH and IA.

[NYMinute]

8. Half of them republicans from operation chaos

[fallout87]

9. Source?

Or are you just guessing ?

[frazzled]

11. Not sure if this means anything, but

Joe Biden now has gotten more popular votes than Bernie Sanders across the first 4 primaries:

Biden 324, 817
Sanders 264, 562

[Garrett78]

12. Which now means something on DU, whereas popular vote was "meaningless" 24 hours ago. LOL

[frazzled]

14. It was meant to address that particular talking point

People can’t have it both ways. I should have used the sarcasm smilie.

[Garrett78]

15. The only people trying to have it both ways are the ones touting Biden's lead in the popular vote.

I don't see a bunch of posts from Sanders supporters now saying the popular vote is meaningless (feel free to point me to such posts). That *would* be hypocrisy, but that isn't happening. What's happening is Biden supporters are suddenly touting something that they've been claiming is meaningless.

And just now I read a post in which someone claimed South Carolina is the first state that isn't lily white, even though Nevada isn't either and Nevada is more representative of the electorate at large in terms of demographics. The mental gymnastics have got to be exhausting.

[frazzled]

17. Okay, I guess you aren't getting the satiric value of

turnabout is fair play. Maybe next time.

[LizBeth]

13. Republicans had a primary to vote in 2016.