Tuesday Democrat Election Results

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2016
Posted on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 07:40:33 PM EST
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Update: Bernie Sanders issued a statement tonight congratulating Hillary Clinton on her victory. Instead of talking about going to the convention to win the nomination, his statement says his supporters will go to the convention to influence the party platform.

John King on CNN says the math is now impossible for Bernie Sanders, "barring a miracle." He said even though tonight's numbers don't put her over the top, the multiple wins will likely "lock in" the super-delegates. (or something like that, I thought he was a little less articulate than usual.)

Update: Hillary wins Connecticut. So she took four of five states.

Update: Hillary wins PA. I haven't heard her speech yet, but CNN said she praised Bernie Sanders. Over at Fox, Joe Trippi says Hillary would have an easier time beating Cruz than Trump because he's so unpredictable. Karl Rove agrees, but says Trump will either win big or lose big.

As of 8:35 pm, Hillary has won Maryland and Delaware.

Bernie Sanders is ahead in Rhode Island. CT is much closer, with them taking turns in the lead.

Hillary has a pretty big lead in Pennsylvania, but it's early.

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PA called (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by smott on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:07:34 PM EST

For Clinton and Trump.
She's at about 60-40 and Trump is 66 to 14/18 Kasich/Cruz.

Most importantly Clinton is ringing up about 5x Trump's total nbr of votes, important to gauge the general.

Here is to my Keystone state staying Blue in the GE.

: fm radio (none / 0) (#2)
by linea on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:13:11 PM EST

on NPR during my drive home they said that after today hillary could lose every state by 20% and still have enough delegates to win the nomination.

: PA Blue (none / 0) (#4)
by chrisvee on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:15:09 PM EST

Hear hear!

Were one to judge by tonight's coverage, ... (5.00 / 2) (#7)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:24:27 PM EST

... Bernie Sanders is showing absolutely no indication that he's considering either the suspension of his campaign or his withdrawal from the race.

Rather, both he and Jeff Weaver are still insisting defiantly that the party's superdelegates should support him rather than Hillary Clinton, even if he's behind in both the aggregate popular vote and pledged delegates, on the ostensible grounds that he polls better against Republicans than she does. Never mind that he's presently being handed his a$$ tonight by Democratic voters in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

(Sigh!) Dogs bark, and the caravan passes. Mrs. Clinton should simply ignore the Sanders campaign entirely from this point forward, as should we all, and start making the obviously compelling case to the country at large why she should be our next president.

Aloha.

I do t know how anyone can watch the speech she (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:28:11 PM EST

just gave and think she does not have the best chance to beat Trump. National,pools are irrelevant at this point, if that is what the Sanders people are clinging to.

Game on v Trump.


But check out the Harvard-IOP Spring 2016 Poll ... (5.00 / 2) (#13)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:06:14 PM EST

... that conclusively shows if Hillary Clinton is our party's nominee, whatever issues she has with millennials pretty much disappears, because they will likely flock to her candidacy in overwhelming numbers.

Sanders is currently insisting that Mrs. Clinton needs to make the case to his supporters why they should support her. Per the Harvard poll, it looks like she already has, because young voters are increasingly identifying themselves as Democrats rather than as independents (and most importantly, only 22% are identifying as Republican), and she currently leads Trump by significant margins in the 18-29 y/o demographic:

"Among likely voters, Clinton maintains the same 61% that a 'generic Democrat' receives, while Donald Trump receives 25%, 8 percentage points lower than the current 'generic Republican' White House preference. Among young Democrats, Clinton leads Trump by 78 points (83%: Clinton; 5%: Trump), but among Republicans, Trump leads by only 44 points (57%: Trump; 13%: Clinton). Among Independents, Clinton has a 23-point lead (43%: Clinton; 20%: Trump), with 36% undecided. Clinton leads significantly with both men and women. Among men, it's 47% for Clinton, 29% supporting Trump; and the lead expands among women, with 57% for Clinton and 15% for Trump. Clinton has a narrow 6-point lead among 18- to 29-year-old whites (38%: Clinton; 32%: Trump)" -- Personal Interjection: OMG! Why are 32% of white millennials vacationing in Wingbat Territory? -- "but polls into the 70s with both the black and Hispanic communities. Among African Americans, Clinton leads Trump 76% to 5%, and among Hispanics, she has a similar-sized lead at 71% to Trump's 9%."

Throw in that poll which has 40% of Republican voters refusing to vote for Trump if he's the GOP nominee, and this prospective election is showing an extraordinarily rich potential to become a Democratic landslide of truly historic proportions.

Aloha.


Deal me in! (none / 0) (#12)
by chrisvee on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:51:06 PM EST

Love trumps hate.


You may not realize it (none / 0) (#24)
by Steve13209 on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 10:27:01 PM EST

but if you are not a Clinton supporter, her speeches don't sound the same.

I agree that Clinton and her supporters should be looking toward the convention and the general. Sanders and his supporters will keep chugging along until the convention, hopefully energizing voters for this November and beyond.


I don't think your approval matters anymore. (5.00 / 2) (#29)
by Donald from Hawaii on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:02:12 AM EST

Hillary Clinton is going to be our party's nominee, so you best get used to her speeches. Further, the Bernistas ought to understand that they can best serve their own cause now by making common cause with the rest of us, rather than continuing to self-marginalize with empty threats to withhold their votes. Politics is most effective when it's played as a team sport.


: Relax Donald (5.00 / 1) (#44)
by Steve13209 on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:33:44 PM EST

I wasn't looking for approval, just injecting some needed reality into the blog. This ongoing circlej**k has a way of blinding you to the legitimate thoughts of other people.
I understand you are all excited about Clinton having almost enough delegates to win the nomination...and it's only the end of April!! Maybe she will lock it up by June. That was the plan right? To be such a weak candidate that a 73 year old socialist democrat put the fear of 2008 back into you.
The way you talk about Sanders supporters is like you only read what they say elsewhere (and they are so rude!). You seem to forget there are a few Sanders supporters here that are putting out their ideas and do not deserve to be lumped in with a bunch of unknown folks on social media. And you think it's time for us to come back into the fold because Clinton was the right candidate all along. How condescending.
I have never threatened to withhold my vote to spite the Democratic Party. I fully intended to vote Democratic no matter who the candidate, but I am just not sure about making common cause with the likes of some of the folks here. Most importantly, all any voter can do is vote their conscience...I mean what is one vote really? So I certainly will vote for who I think would be the best President. That won't be Trump, so don't blame me if he wins by 1 vote.

Probably not. And Sanders speeches do not sound (none / 0) (#51)
by ruffian on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 08:27:20 PM EST

as good to those who are not his supporters either. I think her message is more compelling to more people however. In fact there are actual votes counted to prove it.


: Fair enough (none / 0) (#59)
by Steve13209 on Fri Apr 29, 2016 at 08:01:28 AM EST

Hillary wins Connecticut!!! (5.00 / 2) (#16)
by Cashmere on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:37:46 PM EST

Hillary wins Connecticut!!! Yippee!!!

Josh will be bummin (5.00 / 1) (#30)
by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 11:44:55 AM EST

I'll have to make him his favorite dinner tonight and we all discuss the creation of the platform at convention.

And I'll leave off my blah blah blah Hillary supporter bull schtuff.

It is time to unite the clans and GET THAT PLATFORM!

The whole platform thing (5.00 / 1) (#31)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 11:54:14 AM EST

Makes me laugh. As is anyone ever gave a rats ass what was in the platform of either party.

That's what you need Bern? Fine. Go for it.


I've always cared about the platform Capt ;) (none / 0) (#32)
by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 11:57:22 AM EST

You haven't?


No (none / 0) (#34)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 03:40:26 PM EST

I haven't. It universally ignored by both parties. I hope lots of people care about it tho. So Bern can thnk he is doing something important.


I believe you are very wrong in (none / 0) (#35)
by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:06:26 PM EST

Attempting to project that Democrats don't care about the platform. I always have, and it does matter.

Let's not allow primary bitterness make us ALL dickish ;) I'd say the first to conquer dickishness is a real winner, let's all race to that finish line.


Dickesness has nothing to do with it (none / 0) (#36)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:17:18 PM EST

I would be willin to bet most democrats, and republicans for that matter, couldn't tell you more than one thing in the platform. On a good day.

Or do they care. That's my opinion. It has nothing to do with my feelings about Bernie.

In fact I would guess more democrats know what's is in the republican platform, like the abortion stuff they have I hired for years, than in their own.

It's nice you know lots about the platform. I do not thnk that's particularly common.


Sh!t (none / 0) (#37)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:19:15 PM EST

Should say

like the abortion stuff they have IGNORED for years, than in their own.


I disagree (none / 0) (#38)
by FlJoe on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:29:35 PM EST

the platform is merely a set of talking points that is repeated ad-infinitum on the campaign trail, while most people do not actually read the official platform they hear most of it again and again in stump speeches and campaign ads(although I will admit some planks get way more play than others).


I'm pretty sure (none / 0) (#39)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:31:42 PM EST

You just agreed with me


You (none / 0) (#40)
by FlJoe on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:36:37 PM EST

said most Americans are not aware of the platforms, I am saying that they are made quite aware of them, at least until the elections are over, then of course many or most of them are forgotten.


Actually (none / 0) (#41)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:40:49 PM EST

I might not have been clear but that's pretty close to agreeing with me.
IMO the platforms are things pols talk about during elections that most people neither remember or care that much about.

I was objecting to the idea they are terribly important. At least to most people. Of either party.

And I was saying if rewriting the platform is all it takes to make Bernie happy, give the man a crayon and let's get this over with.


Forgotten yes (none / 0) (#42)
by FlJoe on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:52:04 PM EST

but they can be dangerous, for example including the promise to break up the big banks might put Hillary into a tight position trying to explain exactly how to accomplish that. That's why most platforms contain general platitudes and just a few specific proposals that have already been well planned out in advance, such as the ACA. Obama is still taking heat for his promise to close Guantanamo.


You do realize that the GOP is in such bad shape (none / 0) (#45)
by Steve13209 on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:35:59 PM EST

because THEY put issues in their party plank that they had no intention of implementing. Over and over again the GOP voter got nothing.

I think the Democratic Party is about two general elections away from being in the same place. I hope Clinton proves me wrong. I hope she really is going to work for all of us.


I understand the point (none / 0) (#47)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:39:43 PM EST

But IMO the platform is the least of the GOPs problems.

I think Joe has a point about "breaking up the banks". I would expect changes that are much like most of what Bernies campaign has been about. Nice ideas everyone can agree with and very few specifics on implementation.


Maddox just now on this subject (none / 0) (#52)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 08:46:46 PM EST

And I quote-

Bernie Sanders says he wants to change the party platform to be more progressive
(Skeptical side eye)
Is that really what he wants?
After all this, after all he has accomplished that's what he wants? To change the party platform?
I raise a skeptical eye to that suggestion...um....for one reason. By saying this I mean no disrespect to the people who write party platforms, but party platforms are not documents that anyone but the authors ever read.

LOL.
amen
She then does a funny segment on the irrelevence of platforms.

Recommended.


: A funny segment (none / 0) (#53)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 08:49:23 PM EST

With a puppy falling asleep

It wasn't (none / 0) (#50)
by Ga6thDem on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:47:57 PM EST

really their party plank so much as what they promised in campaigns. Most Republicans I talk to have absolutely no idea what is in their party platform but they sure do know that their representative promised to impeach Obama over immigration or something and didn't.


: Exactly why promising things you can in no (5.00 / 1) (#56)
by ruffian on Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 08:31:11 AM EST

way deliver is counterproductive in the long run.

I don't believe that is true either (none / 0) (#46)
by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:38:42 PM EST

An ignored platform is hard for Democrats to overcome in the next cycle. Not so much with the existing Republican base today, but the Democratic base is not so forgiving and neither are those diary writers at Dailykos.


You might be surprised (none / 0) (#48)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:42:07 PM EST

How many people, including democrats, live their entire life absent the smallest influence from concerns of DKOS


I have seen a few DK diarists (none / 0) (#49)
by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:44:36 PM EST

START the conversation that is on CNN and MSNBC 3 days later. You don't have to ever read DK to be influenced by DK.


DK (none / 0) (#54)
by FlJoe on Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 05:39:12 AM EST

the dogs bark and the caravan goes over the cliff, the media reports "some people say......" and the beat goes on.


: If that true the site (none / 0) (#55)
by Militarytracy on Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 06:47:46 AM EST

Would be over by now, and just a memory.

Speaking of Hillary, (5.00 / 3) (#33)
by fishcamp on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 12:27:33 PM EST

my Hillary 2016 T shirt arrived today, just in time to wear to the gym tomorrow. It's actually not that cool with inch and a half block letters and two stars at each end of 2016. It's a large that will immediately shrink to small when I wash it, if it doesn't get torn off my body tomorrow.

I could wear mine down your way (5.00 / 1) (#43)
by CoralGables on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 04:53:32 PM EST

If they chase me first I could probably casually outrun them, baiting them by letting them stay close enough to continue the chase down A1A. That would leave you free to throw some Hillary pub around the gym.


: We should gang up on the gym in Hillary shirts. (5.00 / 1) (#57)
by ruffian on Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 08:33:01 AM EST

I'd make a road trip for that! (I've made road trips for a lot less!)

Hillary about to start speaking. (none / 0) (#3)
by caseyOR on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:14:38 PM EST

She is in Philadelphia. Is "Eye of the Tiger" her campaign song?

So Tired (none / 0) (#5)
by chrisvee on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:15:54 PM EST

Of that darn Rocky song


It's better than ... (none / 0) (#9)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:29:16 PM EST

... Trump's campaign song.

Okay, I made that up. But it should be, really.

;-D


: ROFL! (5.00 / 1) (#11)
by chrisvee on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:50:21 PM EST

Van Jones would agree. Thought he was about to have a meltdown over Trump tonight. Basically said he didn't even rise to behavior standards required of third graders.

: lol; (5.00 / 1) (#21)
by Mr Natural on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:50:29 PM EST

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Trump..."

Deal me in! (none / 0) (#6)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:23:46 PM EST

I love it - great line. That is a keeper.

: Andrea Mitchell butchers it of course (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 08:41:20 PM EST

: My husband loved that too! Couldn't (none / 0) (#18)
by Cashmere on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:42:00 PM EST

wait to share it with me when I got home from work (west coast and traffic).

: Clinton has been using it for months (none / 0) (#25)
by Towanda on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 11:19:57 PM EST

at least -- so, yeh, it's already a keeper.

Speaking of Trump (none / 0) (#14)
by sallywally on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:17:03 PM EST

He's giving his victory speech and once again he is so monumentally boring!

Best moment: Mary Jane Christie (5.00 / 1) (#26)
by Towanda on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 11:23:06 PM EST

behind Trump, hearing him claim that men don't like Clinton, and that she is "playing the woman card" -- and Mary Jane Christie sighs and rolls her eyes.

Of course, since she was behind him, Trump could not see how women -- and some men -- will react to his playing that card.


Trump-Christie! (none / 0) (#28)
by ExPatObserver on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 11:24:32 PM EST

"Bigger and better" for the slogan?


: Not just bigger. YUGE! (none / 0) (#58)
by Towanda on Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 12:20:55 PM EST

MSNBC has now called Connecticut (none / 0) (#15)
by caseyOR on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:34:20 PM EST

for Clinton. Very close. 50%-48%.

Still too close to call, in my estimation. (none / 0) (#19)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:44:15 PM EST

That particular contest has fluctuated back and forth all evening -- or all afternoon, as the case may be out here in the mid-Pacific. Any reason offered by MSNBC as to why they chose to call it with nearly 20% of state precincts still outstanding?


: Almost all are in southern Connecticut (5.00 / 2) (#27)
by Towanda on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 11:24:05 PM EST

which is Clinton country. Anything southern is, you know, according to the Sanders campaign.

CT is inexplicably being called for Clinton ... (none / 0) (#17)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:41:11 PM EST

... in some quarters, even though with 83% of precincts reporting, she's only up by a narrow 50-48% margin.

If you know the state and the demographics (5.00 / 2) (#20)
by CoralGables on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 09:44:22 PM EST

you can call it even when others think you can't.

I know nothing about Connecticut, but am sure those at the AP know far more than me.


She took the "Gold Coast" (5.00 / 1) (#22)
by Suisser1 on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 10:10:39 PM EST

70/30 and 60/40 with her percentage decreasing as you go north and east away from the NYC commuter towns.


: Thank you for the clarification. (none / 0) (#23)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Apr 26, 2016 at 10:18:07 PM EST

I wasn't sure where and how the results were thus far being tallied. If the outstanding precincts are in the state's urban areas, I can see why MSNBC, et al., would thus project her as the likely winner.