Super Tuesday Review
HRC had seven wins last night. Only one could be called a surprise, and that was Massachusetts. But what surprised me about MA was it was again by less than 1% and a 20K vote margin. When I went to bed she had about a 4% lead. So in terms of delegates it's probably about the same. Every one of her other victories were southern states for which there are not many more left. These are states that more often than not go Republican in the GE anyway.
Bernie won four states with double digit margins - Colorado, Minnesota, Vermont and surprisingly to me at least Oklahoma, a state I thought would go HRC.
I think both candidates have positives going forward. Clinton now has a nice lead, but it is based on the accumulation of southern states which won't help her if she is the nominee as they'll be red states, and well few southern states left. Her tenuous wins in the North - MA by less than 1% and Iowa by about the same indicate northern dissatisfaction with her as she was supposed to breeze through the primary against a 75 year old socialist.
I am curious to see how HRC will do in Ohio and industrial states and the Northwest and California. Should be a fun primary the rest of the way.
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