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still_one

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Tue Jun 7, 2016, 12:14 PM Jun 2016

Hillary Clinton Will Be Nominated Because More Democrats Are Voting For Her

"In a statement released after the AP’s call, the Sanders campaign argued that the media is wrong to declare Clinton the presumptive nominee by including superdelegates.....

"But Sanders’s statement — and the AP’s call — distract from the larger point. Clinton will be the Democratic nominee because substantially more Democrats have voted for her. In addition to her elected delegate majority, she’s received approximately 13.5 million votes so far in primaries and caucuses, compared with 10.5 million for Sanders."

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There also isn’t much sign of forward momentum for Sanders, after a strong run of contests in late March and early April. Over the past seven weeks, from the New York primary on April 19 through Puerto Rico on Sunday, Clinton has won 505 pledged delegates compared with 428 for Sanders. Her current lead in our national polling average, 14.4 percentage points, is the widest it has been since mid-February.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hillary-clinton-clinches-democratic-nomination-according-to-ap/

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Hillary Clinton Will Be Nominated Because More Democrats Are Voting For Her (Original Post) still_one Jun 2016 OP
538, my oasis of sanity during this primary. BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #1
Simple fact that sanders evidently doesn't let enter his concsienceness Cha Jun 2016 #2
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