Super Tuesday II Results
It’s over, Democrats. The Democratic Presidential Nominee is Hillary Clinton. She swept all the states, winning Florida, Ohio and North Carolina by 15-20+ points, and winning close races in Illinois and Missouri. I will have more on what this all means for Bernie, and whether he should continue his campaign (surprise, I think he should, but with some important caveats), later on this morning in the Open Thread.
Trumps wins everything but Ohio, but with Kasich winning in Ohio, it looks like a contested convention is likely for the GOP, insofar as Trump will not get the required majority of the delegates to be the presumptive nominee. Chaos in Cleveland!
Still see the famed “brokered convention” as highly unlikely, the Republicans will not risk the fury unleashed by a Trump denied. Trying to sneak Kasich in the back door as the new establishment candidate will produce similar rage, sure the billionaires and corporations own the party, but as we say in Delaware “that don’t make it right”. Bernie will most likely continue and go back to his original goal of pulling the party to the left, and that’s what we really needed from him all along.
Hillary is incapable of being pulled to the left. She has not budged on any of her corporatist positions that were challenged by Bernie (which not coincidentally, is where she is vulnerable to Trump). Now the only reasonable goal for Bernie and his supporters is to make it safe for future candidates to run to the left of Hillary. I’d rather see Bernie take up the goal of pulling Congress to the left.
I can only ponder Missouri must be an amazing place….where the Democrats split even-even between centrists and liberal, and conservatives split even-even between centrists and conservatives, and the state itself splits even-even between Democrats and Republicans…
It reminds us how centrality can be important in the determination of whether Democrats can hold power in Washington, or not. Something we on the East Coast can impatiently forget.
GOP map is missing Hawaii as called for Trump: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_republican_nomination_map.html