2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton’s Best Day Is Behind Her, Sanders Adviser Says
Hillary Clintons best day on the primary calendar is now behind her, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders said the day after he lost seven of 11 Super Tuesday states to the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sanders now trails Clinton by more than 600 delegates, casting substantial doubt on the possibility he can can overtake her by the time of the partys convention in July.
We do not think the calendar ahead looks nearly as good as yesterday for the former secretary of state, Sanders aide Tad Devine told reporters at a briefing with campaign manager Jeff Weaver. We understand that we have a long road ahead of us that we have to take if were going to win the nomination.
Delegate-rich Michigan, California, and New York are key opportunities for Sanders, they said. In Michigan, at least, Clinton leads Sanders by 20 points among likely voters, according to a Feb. 29 Marketing Resource Group poll reported by Real Clear Politics. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Weaver called Sanders performance on Tuesday, when he won four states including Vermont and narrowly lost Massachusetts, "a fantastic night. We shot for five, we got 4.9"
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Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)So technically not as great as yesterday!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)FloridaBlues
(3,993 posts)Actually she polling well over 20% in March 15 states. Her best days are ahead!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)And Wolf Blitzer has made a big point of not pointing that out.
Bernie's best days -- like America's -- are ahead, Purveyor.
4lbs
(6,756 posts)That's much larger than the lead Obama had over Hillary in 2008, at this point in time.
Current delegate count:
Hillary Clinton: ... 596 without superdelegates ........ 1053 with superdelegates
Bernie Sanders: . 399 without superdelegates ........ 421 with superdelegates
Avalux
(35,015 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)and that's still a big gap to make up.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)And Clinton doesn't win, they can all switch to Bernie.
We'll be at the convention and that's where Bernie finally overcomes!
thesquanderer
(11,955 posts)As long as there are only two candidates at the convention who have delegates, you can be assured that one of them will have the required 50%.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)She'll have over 50% of the available delegates.
localroger
(3,605 posts)...when both candidates are at around 1/4 of what is needed to lock up a majority. And these early states are where Hillary has always been expected to perform best. This thing is a long way from over.
ConsiderThis_2016
(274 posts)You Lie!