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phew…
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What the hell? I’m reading this from California, and it’s currently 2:24 p.m. here. Why would you post this for East Coasters when there must still be ongoing voting being done in Nevada? Do you think we can’t see it?
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Indeed!!..The Obama Coalition is back on its heels
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Hill yeah!!!
A close win is a win. Whew.
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This is the beginning.
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Congrats to Hillary, and to the Hillary supporters here. Looks like a good, solid win. I’m betting there are some big sighs of relief at Clinton campaign headquarters tonight, amid some champagne corks a-poppin,’ At least that’s what I’d be doing about now if I were them.
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This was a must win for Bernie and he didn’t come as close as expected.
I for one have been getting a bit fed up of the Bernie folk’s behavior this past few weeks.
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I won’t be popping corks tonight, but I will be popping bottles! I’m thrilled for her, my party, and my country. She’ll be a wonderful president.
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Me too and I will vote for Bernie if he is the nominee unlike my Bernie friends.
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From what I understand, all caucuses are done and just witing for the tallies. 72% in and Hillary has a solid lead.
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Net-based “Popular media” makes more out of some used up oligarch winning an obscure, inconsequential state based popularity contest than it does out of the life and works of people like Harper Lee and Umberto Eco.
Anyone else need a living example of how and why America is a screwed up third world nation?
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Wait a minute! How can this be? I read her obituary today…
(congratulations to the Clinton campaign).
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It’s a caucus, not a primary.
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go Hillary! On to South Carolina
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The pressure was on Clinton to win the state because its diverse electorate was supposed to act as a firewall to head off Sanders’ momentum coming out Iowa, where he essentially tied with Clinton, and New Hampshire, where he won in a landslide. Sanders’ strong performance in the state—which has a large Latino electorate, but also sizeable Asian and black populations—may mean Clinton will be vulnerable in the primary states that follow, where her campaign had argued she could count on minority voters.
The terrain doesn’t get any easier for Sanders as the race heads to next Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, where less than half of the Democratic electorate was white in 2008.
Ok, I’ll bite. So which one is it? Trying to have it both ways, are we?
FWIW, I think it’s very difficult for Bernie going forward.
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Bernie is toast. This resets the race to where it was before the IA and NH contests that were in “Bernie country.” The narrative now will be that Hillary is “inevitable” again. However, this time will be the real thing because she will have a strong wind in her sails pushing her toward the inevitable. Her bounce out of NV is likely to make her win in SC even bigger than it would already have been.
Yup, Bernie is toast.
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Let’s make it clear…voting ended in the caucuses before any reporting started, so stop the conspiracy theory stuff now, it does nothing but make you appear to be sore losers. Hillary won, fair and square, and the Bernie supporters need to accept that and move on to the next state and try to beat her.
And, count me in the group that is getting fed up with Bernie supporters…anyone who thinks that not voting in November is the right course of action if Hillary beats Bernie is in favor of a Republican government, and all of the ills that will bring us.
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The reporter is wrong in her story. Obama did not win in Nevada in 2008. Clinton did. In 2008, when South Carolina rolled around, Obama had only won Iowa.
Nevada Democratic precinct caucuses, 2008
Candidate County delegates Percentage
Barack Obama 4,844 45.09%
Hillary Clinton 5,459 50.82%
John Edwards 399 3.71%
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Someone should tell her not to do the “I’m happy” look anymore. Maybe just a little lift of the mouth corners. The big wide-eyed thing she does is scary.