The Daily 202: Primary wins show Hillary Clinton needs the left less than pro-Sanders liberals think

[Iamaartist]

THE BIG IDEA: The scope and scale of Hillary Clinton’s victories last night ameliorates much of the pressure that she has been under to pander to Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

California was the biggest delegate prize of 2016 for Democrats. Sanders spent the better part of the past month camped out there. And Clinton beat him by 13 points – or nearly half a million votes.

She won the second most valuable prize available last night, New Jersey, by 26 points. And she defeated Sanders in New Mexico and South Dakota.

The Democratic coalition will ultimately unify behind Clinton – as long as she pays a modicum of respect to Sanders, which she will – because the liberal base does not want Donald Trump to become president. And Clinton benefits enormously from growing concerns among independent voters about the presumptive Republican nominee.

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[stopbush]

1. I have been saying this all year.

The rabid, BoB types are a small percentage of Ds. Most of them are indies. I would guess that less than 5% of Ds fall into the BoB category.

Independents never decide elections. Never. They divide evenly between leaning heavily D or heavily R. Only 5% of indies would equally consider the D and R candidate. The rest are actually Ds and Rs who simply don't want the party label attached to their name. So that's a wash when it comes to elections.

Only one thing really matters: turning out your base. If you do that, you win, especially if you're the Ds, because there are more Ds in this country than Rs.

There's lots of enthusiasm for Hillary, little for Trump. Hillary will win in a landslide.

[Iamaartist]

5. I agree,she will win with a landside....

She will more likely let BS do what he wants ,sooner or later he will fall ..on his own.....


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[teamster633]

11. THAT is a thing of beauty!

[TwilightZone]

2. The early cycle meme of "Hillary wins states that don't matter because they're red" ended up

morphing into those being the only states Sanders could win by the end.

[Iamaartist]

6. I agree

[Cha]

7. Karma

[TwilightZone]

8. Or a lack of understanding about the diversity of the voting public

combined with an inability to plan more than a state or two ahead at a time.

[Cha]

10. Huge lack.. rather obstinate

About California.. I would think they know him by now..he spent over a month there and beau coup bucks and he still lost by 13%.. almost the Bronx territory.

So glad.. I was not happy when I saw those polls that had Hillary leading by only 2 %.

[TwilightZone]

12. I was concerned with the tightening race, especially when combined with all the new registrations.

Three polls in a row showed it +2, but 538 still had it close to double digits. Had no idea what to think.

I was hoping for a solid win to put an exclamation point on the race and help people move forward. Thankfully, that's what happened, both in CA and in the other states where she outperformed expectations.

[Cha]

13. Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder... all those new registration numbers, too.

Yes, a solid win is what we were going for.. It's surreal right now.. she did it! Getting all those California Dems out to Vote!

[Walk away]

3. The holdout have always been meaningless even if they all, stupidly, voted for Trump...

(I hope I don't get a "hide for calling Trump voters stupid), Hillary will be sitting at her desk in the Oval Office in January 2017!

[Iamaartist]

9. LOL YOU WONT GET IN TROUBLE WITH TRUMP VOTERS LOL.... WE ALL FEEL THE SAME WAY....

[BootinUp]

4. We need their lies about Hillary even less. nt

[grossproffit]

14. West & Zogby were the last straw for many.

The few BS supporters that I know via Twitter had had enough after that.

[TwilightZone]

15. West was when I fully realized that the critiques of Sanders as vindictive and petty were dead-on

It was a direct shot at President Obama for some perceived slight that Sanders probably can't even explain.

The guy's not even a Democrat. Putting him on a platform committee for the party made no sense.

[Lucinda]

16. Yep. n/t