http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/28/bernie-sanders-just-trounced-hillary-clinton-three-ten-most-diverse-states-america
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders won his three contests in ultra-diverse states — Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington — with 81.6%, 69.8%, and 72.7% shares of the vote, respectively.
In all three states, Sanders exceeded expectations dramatically.
Polling website FiveThirtyEight.com had predicted 8-point wins for Sanders in Hawaii and Alaska, and a more generous 17-point win in Washington.
Instead, Sanders won Alaska by 61.5 points, Hawaii by 39.8, and Washington — the largest of the three Western Saturday states — by a jaw-dropping 45.6 points.
(As a side note, Sanders also just won the Democrats Abroad primary — which awards as many delegates as do Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming — 69% to 30%. While the demographic breakdown of Democrats Abroad voters is unknown, we do know that Sanders defeated Clinton in 167 of 170 countries — those last four words might be worth reading twice — and that in one of the three countries Clinton won, only five people voted. That means Sanders won among Democrats in every majority-nonwhite country in the world that has Democrats in it other than Nigeria, Singapore, and the Dominican Republic. As noted, only five people voted in Nigeria; in Singapore, Clinton’s win was a relatively modest one, 58% to 42%. I won’t list the 167 countries Sanders won, as I just don’t have the space here.)
If you thought these four decisive Sanders wins offered the national media a pretty good opportunity to drop its ridiculous narrative about Bernie Sanders supporters — namely, that nearly all of them are white — you either don’t understand how firmly in the Clinton camp even mainstream media organizations are, or you don’t pay any attention to domestic politics at all. Most of us knew what to expect from the media after seeing months of purportedly objective “panels” on CNN and MSNBC comprised entirely of Clinton surrogates or neutral reporters; watching media outlets fail to cover even a single second of election-night speeches by Sanders; and cringing as every major media organization continued counting “super-delegates” as though these were earned and confirmed “votes,” despite a DNC directive to not tally them until the summertime.
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