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If Biden needs about 900 delegates to reach the magic number (Original Post) question everything Mar 2020 OP
Oh, they'll accumulate pretty quickly as primaries happen MineralMan Mar 2020 #1
He's forecast to get 2400 or so. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #2
Thanks. Interesting question everything Mar 2020 #5
Post removed Post removed Mar 2020 #3
What A Funny Little Fellow We Have Here The Magistrate Mar 2020 #6
Sanders will not win NY or NJ Historic NY Mar 2020 #4
You mean, Biden doesn't have all the delegates he needs?! polichick Mar 2020 #7
Well he is beyond the half-way point... Historic NY Mar 2020 #8
He will. My ignorace was on the states that have yet to vote question everything Mar 2020 #11
This is simple. We are in a crisis. Voters have spoken. Sanders needs to get out and back Biden. LizBeth Mar 2020 #9
He'll sniff them out somewhere mikelgb Mar 2020 #10
 

MineralMan

(147,483 posts)
1. Oh, they'll accumulate pretty quickly as primaries happen
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:08 PM
Mar 2020

If Sanders drops out, it will be guaranteed anyhow.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)
2. He's forecast to get 2400 or so.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:11 PM
Mar 2020
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-bidens-delegate-lead-is-now-nearly-insurmountable/

He's forecast to win pretty much every state, so to answer your question, they'll come from everywhere.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

Response to question everything (Original post)

 

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
6. What A Funny Little Fellow We Have Here
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:29 PM
Mar 2020

Voters have gotten Sanders out of the running, and no, it has not taken the Democratic primary electorate very long to do it. We learned a lesson four years ago.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Historic NY

(37,823 posts)
4. Sanders will not win NY or NJ
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:22 PM
Mar 2020

it is not realistic for Mr. Sanders to overtake Mr. Biden without a titanic shift in the race on a scale with few or no modern precedents. The results on Tuesday confirmed yet again that Mr. Biden holds a commanding national advantage, probably of at least 25 percentage points nationwide, spanning virtually all major demographic groups and regions of the country. He won nearly every county across Illinois, Arizona and Florida, three states that collectively represent just about every facet of American life.

When all of the votes to this point are counted, Mr. Biden will probably hold a lead of around 54 percent to 39 percent in pledged delegates, with nearly 60 percent of the nation’s delegates now in the books. To overtake Mr. Biden, Mr. Sanders would need to win the remaining delegates by around 20 percentage points. It would require a net 40-point improvement over his current standing.

The breadth of Mr. Biden’s advantage denies Mr. Sanders any realistic opportunity for a comeback. Perhaps Mr. Sanders will win a party-run primary or caucus — in Alaska, Hawaii or Wyoming over coming weeks — as he did in North Dakota last week. Otherwise Mr. Biden is the favorite in every remaining primary state. And without victories, Mr. Sanders will be deprived of opportunities to claim the momentum and favorable news coverage to change the trajectory of the race.

If news media organizations projected the outcome of the national nominating contests in the same way they called national elections on election nights, Mr. Biden would be the projected winner of the Democratic nomination on this basis.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/upshot/bernie-sanders-delegates-analysis.html]


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-rest-of-the-primary-calendar-looks-for-biden-and-sanders/]

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

polichick

(37,573 posts)
7. You mean, Biden doesn't have all the delegates he needs?!
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 01:48 PM
Mar 2020

DU seems to think he does.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Historic NY

(37,823 posts)
8. Well he is beyond the half-way point...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 01:57 PM
Mar 2020

which makes it mathematically impossible for SaNDERS.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

question everything

(48,762 posts)
11. He will. My ignorace was on the states that have yet to vote
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 04:18 PM
Mar 2020

and this was a wonderful post

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287675520

Puerto Rico
Alaska
Hawaii
Wyoming
Wisconsin

Connecticut
Delaware
New York State
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island

Guam
Kansas
Indiana
Nebraska
West Virginia

Georgia
Oregon
Washington D.C.
Maryland
Montana

New Jersey
New Mexico
Ohio
South Dakota
the US Virgin Islands

Louisiana &
Kentucky

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

LizBeth

(10,810 posts)
9. This is simple. We are in a crisis. Voters have spoken. Sanders needs to get out and back Biden.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:23 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

mikelgb

(6,021 posts)
10. He'll sniff them out somewhere
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 04:14 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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