Super Tuesday Results [Updated 6:20pm]

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At 7 pm, Hillary wins Georgia and Virginia. Bernie wins Vermont. Trump wins Georgia. Trump and Rubio in a nailbiter in Virginia. Trump and Kasich in a nailbiter in Vermont. I will be filing in the maps below as the night progresses. Update 8 pm: Hillary wins Tennessee and Alabama. Oklahoma and Massachusetts are too early to call, but NBC says Sanders is leading in Oklahoma. Trump has won Tennessee, Massachusetts and Alabama. Oklahoma is too close to call. Update 9:30 pm: Hillary wins Texas and Arkansas. Trump wins Virginia. Cruz wins Oklahoma and Texas. Sanders wins Oklahoma. Hillary is leading Massachusetts 51-48 with 19% in, but with Boston out, which likely means she is in good shape there. Update 10:30 pm: Trump has won Arkansas. Hillary is still leading Massachusetts with 68% in, 51-48. Sanders is leading Minnesota 59-41 with 15% in. Sanders is leading Colorado 53-45 with 9% in. Rubio is leading Cruz in Minnesota 37 to 27 with 10% in. I am going to go ahead and color all the rest of the states in, even though they are not official. If it changes, I will change it in the morning. Update 6:20 am: Sanders ended up winning Colorado and Minnesota, and Hillary won Massachusetts. Cruz won his third state of the night, Alaska! And Rubio won Minnesota, but Trump dashed hopes of four GOP winners by winning Vermont over Kasich. Also, regarding the GOP side in Colorado, the Republicans held a caucus where they didn't vote or assign pledged electors. Stay tuned for the Open Thread where we analyze the analysis of the results. Dem.Map GOP.Map
The Delaware Liberal General Assembly Progressive Rankings

The Delaware Liberal General Assembly Progressive Rankings

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Matt Bittle of the Delaware State News recently did a story on the "Mostly True Blue State of Delaware," that partly focused on the the legislative ideological rankings of the various party legislators, as judged by the Delaware Chapter of the American Democratic Association (ADA) and the American Conservative Union (ACU). The ADA picked 10 pieces of legislation which they deemed important pieces of progressive legislation. All of them are included in my list of legislation below. The ACU also picked several pieces of the same legislation, though their favored position was opposition. In reading that Matt Bittle story, I felt inspired to compile our own Delaware Liberal Rankings of all of our lawmakers in Dover. From John Kowalko to Timothy Dukes. From Bryan Townsend to Colin Bonini. I have primarily used the Delaware ADA's list of priority progressive legislation from the past two legislative sessions (148th and 147th, covering the years 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016) in order to judge each lawmaker's actions regarding such legislation.
Bernie’s Still the One

Bernie’s Still the One

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Bernie Sanders doesn't embody what a 2016 mainstream Democrat is. He embodies what a 2016 mainstream Democrat should be and the support base that has been championing his messages is what the Democratic Party should be. And no, I don’t mean 70 year old Jewish guys from Brooklyn. I mean progressive. Democrats should be progressive and, dare I say, liberal. Sanders has started to bring the progressive core of the Democratic Party out of a decades long hibernation and he’s succeeding in getting the newly awoken to help wake up people sleeping next to them.
A risk free vote for Sanders

A risk free vote for Sanders

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Whether or not Bernie can change the Democratic Party will come down to follow through. We can't know the future, and so it is pointless to try and game plan what Sanders may mean to the Party five, ten, or even twenty years from now. Instead, we can look at the facts as they stand today. Many are doing that and digging into their pockets to support Sanders in spite of the long odds of success. Why is that? I can't say it any better than Booman said it.
Tuesday Open Thread [3.1.16]

Tuesday Open Thread [3.1.16]

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This should help end the narrative that Donald Trump is a KKK-loving genocidal racist: “About 30 black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday night were escorted out by Secret Service agents who said the presidential candidate had requested their removal before he began speaking.”