2016 Postmortem
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April 9, 2016 | 4:44pm | Updated
Rigged race means Hillary takes more delegates in Bernies Wyoming win
Bernie Sanders won again Saturday and still lost.
The Vermont senator took Wyoming by an impressive 12 percentage-point margin in statewide caucuses, beating Clinton 56-44 percent. But under the Democratic partys oddball delegate system, Sanders winning streak he has won seven out of the past eight contests counts for little.
In fact, despite his win, he splits the Wyomings 14 pledged delegates 7 to 7 under the caucus calculus.
Clinton, meanwhile, also gets the states four superdelegates who already pledged their allegiance to her in January. So despite losing, she triumphs 11-7 in the delegate tally.
Of the 500 superdelegates who have announced whom theyre supporting, 469 say theyre for Clinton.
That makes Sanders win in the Cowboy State and in caucuses and primaries across the country little more than a morale boost and maybe a cruel joke to his ardent young supporters.
Meanwhile, both candidates turned their attentions to New Yorks April 19 primary, and its trove of 291 delegates.
In city appearances, Clinton shied away from a slice of Juniors cheesecake and Brooklyn-born Sanders touted his borough bona fides.
I hope that New York state will help lead this country into the political revolution, the Vermont senator told a cheering crowd of 700 mostly Hispanic and black voters at the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washington Heights.
The crowd booed when Sanders said that New York is Secretary Clintons adopted home state.
Thats not a crime, Sanders joked in response.
So if we can win here, it opens the door to victory to the White House, he said, saying that a high voter turnout on April 19, when New Yorks 291 delegates will be allocated, could vault him past the front-runner. Current polling averages have Clinton in the lead in New York by 13 points.
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http://nypost.com/2016/04/09/bernie-sanders-wins-democratic-caucuses-in-wyoming/
It IS rigged, like our economy, like our financial industry, like our foreign policy, like our privatizing public services, like our monopolized industries killing entrepreneurship, like our unfair "free trade" deals, like our media. (Thus the crappy link.)
Its a "cruel joke" to more of US than just the young supporters.