Posted on 05/24/2016 9:47:53 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Washington state Tuesday, though she technically got no closer to becoming the party’s 2016 presidential nominee.
With 74 percent of the vote counted, the former first lady had 54 percent of the vote, to rival Sen. Bernard Sanders’ 46 percent.
Sill, Mrs. Clinton remains on track to reach the needed 2,383 delegates, having 2,305 to Mr. Sanders’ 1,539 with hundreds at stake in California and four other states wrap up the 2016 presidential primaries on June 7.
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Washington state DemocRAT voters love crooks.
Thought Sanders won this back in March?
I think Bernie is done. Hillary...yuk. Not that Bernie is a prize but Hillary? Yuk! Bernie would not get a thing done. Hillary has Linda and McCain among others to make our lives hell even more then now.
Trump 2016!
Well that is disappointing, even though Sanders already took most of the delegates in an earlier vote.
Not counting superdelegates, its 1,750 vs 1,448...closer than Trump and Cruz ever got...yet no endless reporting on a ‘brokered’ rat convention.
But I bet Bernie’s supporters kn9w how close it really is :)...should be fun to watch.
He did - in the caucuses. This primary means nothing to the democrats - they are strictly caucus. (A “beauty poll” - like what the Republicans used to use in Colorado).
The Republican primary in WA does matter - with the winner getting the caucus delegates bound to them on the first vote. So while Cruz supporters got 40/41 of the delegates voted on at the convention - they will need to vote for Mr. Trump on the first ballot.
The state of Washington has a caucus and primary on the Democratic side. The primary is just a beauty contest, no delegates are awarded by it. Though it is a propaganda victory, as Clinton can claim she won Washington when over 600,000+ people voted, as opposed to Sanders winning in March when like 200,000 Democrats voted.
This was really just a beauty contest.
Still, it wasn’t an overwhelming win, which is what you would expect from the presumptive nominee.
Bearnie would be easier to beat than Hillary.
Oh. Weird.
>> no endless reporting
To have a brokered convention, more than two candidates must have delegates. O’Malley and Webb won no delegates. So that’s why there was no endless reporting.
What about the issue of contested delegates? The Clinton campaign has opened itself to a lot of challenges, such as in Kentucky. Then there’s the issue of the super delegates. I would think that Sanders and/or his supporters can hold up the certification process in very unpleasant ways.
I got into a nice exchange with a co-worker yesterday. He said that anybody who votes for Trump is an idiot. I asked him what was the most important reason he’s voting for Hillary. He told me, “foreign policy”. I almost spit my coffee in his face from laughing so hard. It really has to suck waking every morning being a libtard.
He did, big time.
Ok...maybe ‘brokered convention’ is the wrong term. But I would say the likelihood of huge fractures in the democrat party, at their convention is very high - much more likely than the much reported on GOP brokered convention ever was.
I imagine there will be legions of Bernie protestors outside, and even some inside booing speakers, etc. Apparently they just had a small skirmish in Nevada already.
It just amuses me that the lead story for months was how fractured the GOP convention would be...but nothing on the very real cracks in the rat party.
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