This is a great night for Hillary Clinton. In a couple of weeks, she will have a clear path to the Democratic nomination for President. She has already made history though; she is the first woman ever to get this far.
We are still waiting on results from Massachusetts, Colorado, and Minnesota; so here’s a fresh thread to continue the discussion.
WaPo: Super Tuesday Democratic Primaries: Clinton Projected to Win in 6 States, Sanders in 2.
LA Times:Â Trump wins five primaries, Cruz takes Texas and Oklahoma; Rubio’s best is 2nd place in Virginia.
ABC News: Exit Polls: Clinton Expands Base; Trump Sells Outsider Image.
Exit Poll: Clinton Expands Base, Trump Sells Outsider Image
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116 responses to “Live Blog #2 Super Tuesday”
Clinton still holding onto a 4 point lead in Mass. with 54% reporting.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/massachusetts
I am horrified watching Drumpf speak.
Yeah, he’s gonna make Apple computers, make computers here, and millions, and millions, and millions, and millions, did you hear me, millions of jobs are going to be created. Paul Ryan better get on board, or he is going to have to pay a BIG price, a big price, did you hear me, a big price.
Oh shit, I’m friggin’ dizzy.
All I can think when I see chrsitie is “this boy is a bottom”! Google the you tube for the reference.
*snort* !
I haven’t turned the TV on tonight. I’ll watch highlights tomorrow. I just cannot bear to watch one more pundit going on and on.
Omg, everyone is still showing Trump going on and on. I finally found a local station nit showing Trump.
58 percent reporting in MA and Clinton still leads by 4.
It looks like she is inching up to a 5 pt lead, I am feeling more confident. Although I did originally think she’d take it by 10.
The suburbs should go to Hillary. I’m pretty sure she’ll win now. Maybe not by 10 tho.
That fact that Hillary won by so much in Brookline and Newton is bad news for Bernie.
More than 60% of Boston in and Hillary is leading there. Looking good.
Hour long Trump press conference and now Cruz speaking, and then the network going on and on about the Republicans, and they are missing what looks like a very good win in MA for Hillary.
I shut off the tv. I’m watching the returns on line.
Rubio got interviewed. I nearly lost my pizza from all the tired memes.
VT is close with Trump 32% to Kasich 31% and 66% reporting. Rubio is still ahead of Cruz in MN.
Arkansas goes to Trump.
Is there anyone more distasteful than Ted Cruz? Ugh!
Trump.
Drumpf!
I want to go to bed but I am waiting to see MA go officially to Hillary.
I’m staying up till I know for sure about MA. I’m tired though.
One good thing, Pat. Hillary is crushing Bernie in Springfield. He’s ahead in West Springfield.
The Western suburbs where I live have only started to come in. Unfortunately Cambridge is still barely counted either.
Yeah, what is up with that? That is making me nervous. But Worcester hasn’t come in at all yet, I’m counting on them as an offset if Bernie wins Cambridge.
I accidentally started posting on the previous thread. lol.
Hillary is still leading by 3 with 75% reporting. Boston is almost all reported and she is winning by nearly 17 pts. She won Lexington about 2 to 1, that should be a good sign. A lot of the western suburbs are still out, and she should win those, I think. Bernie is winning Cambridge and Somerville, not surprising. He’s also winning in Watertown.
BB, I think what you said about Colorado — guns — explains most of rural Mass going for Bernie too. He has some really big margins, but most of the town don’t have a lot of voters (less than 1000 in my hometown). Also more independents, and a lot of VT border towns.
I’m staying up to hear the MA results.
me too
MN has just gone Sanders @ 59% to Clinton @ 41%, and 15% reporting
I don’t get CO, it’s mostly the rural areas that are going Sanders.
Hillary is going to win urban areas. Gun people will vote for Bernie.
On the other hand, maybe I do.
Yeah, a lot of patriarchal constitutionalists too..foment about BLM and other federal land.
And there’s the wimmenz for President problem.
CO is like Oklahoma in that it’s made up of mostly white conservatives and there are a lot of college students. Really not too many black voters and the liberals are limousine liberals so I would not be surprised to see Sanders take CO.
I think he’ll take MN and CO–both caucus states.
I agree.
Thank God! Hillary won Arlington 54-45! That’s where I live.
Yeah, I wish they would do away with caucus states. Rubio hasn’t won a damn state, but is leading in Minnesota. What does that say about the system.
Axlerod said, “everybody knows as goes Minnesota, so goes the nation”………….haha.
Republicans hate Cruz, all of DC republicans hate Cruz……….that’s why they want Rubio.
Guns.
I’m amazed at how slowly the results are coming in. WTF is going on in MA? This seems to be taking an awfully long time to finalize the results.
What is the totals now for Mass
About 51% to 48% with Clinton leading by about 30k votes but Worcester is the holdout and might be the tipping point.
Just posted below that Hillary won Worcester by 2 points.
There are a lot of people here and lots of little towns.
76% reporting and Hillary still leads by 3.
Hillary won Worcester by 2 points. Bernie needed that one. I think the holdup is that Cambridge is still being counted and that should go to Bernie. I don’t think it will be enough though, because Hillary won very big in Boston and and she’s winning the western suburbs by quite a bit.
So far only one precinct reported from Cambridge and Hillary won that. They can’t call it until they have Cambridge counted, because Bernie should win there.
That’s good to know. The A.P./NYT is showing no results from Worcester yet.
I got it from DKos elections on twitter. They got it from the town clerk.
Clinton now leading by only 2 points with 79 percent reporting. Eeek!
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Mercy, BB, you doing a great job.
Clinton now leading by 3 with 82% counted.
Huff post gives MA to Hillary.
Victory!!!!!
Mass is wearing me out. I don’t care about Minn, OK or CO. If she wins MA, that’s the nail in Bernies coffin
Hooray, now I can sleep
ABC News calls CO for Bernie.
Everyone has now called MA for Hillary.
Yay, by how many votes!……………….Yes. Yes. Yes. I am so jacked up.
NBC News projects Clinton the winner in Massachusetts!!!
My work here is done. Yay!
Thank you, you done good.
Yay for MA & Hillary!
Wapo hasn’t called it yet
Woohoo! Thank you for a kick ass live blog.
Whew! That was pretty close. Yaay!
Congrats to you, BB, and to Pat Johnson, too,
You did it!!!!
CO is called for Sanders 58% @ 29%
Rubio won Minn.
Wapo called MN for Rubio 37& @ 53%
They haven’t started with AK yet.
MN called for Sanders 58% @ 43% reporting
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Thank you MA, we got all the big prizes. Bernie can have MN, OK and CO. We’re half way home
Are Bristol and Plymouth Co.s rural? They are competitive.
They are down near the Cape. It’s over now. Even Cambridge went for Hillary.
Excellent night. Hillary did very well but CNN says it’s still a tight race. 😀
Not really. Hillary is going to have a huge delegate lead.
Screw the media!
I know. I just thought it was funny how they are desperately trying to make it out to be a horse race. One of the horses just pulled up lame. 🙂
lol
Wapo just sent MA to Clinton!!!!!
Cambridge went for Hillary! I guess all those college students were too busy to vote today.
Or inspired by Hillary 😉
right.
I read a comment in the NYT saying that if Bernie couldn’t win “the People’s Republic of Cambridge” he doesn’t stand a chance! 😀
Well I’m confused, they are showing Sanders as the winner with fewer votes than Clinton in MA 48% to 51% with 91% reporting
Ok, they corrected it, Clinton wins MA.!!!
That leaves VT with Trump ahead 32% to Kasich 31%, and AK where reporting hasn’t started yet.
The actually published a correction admitting that that was a mistake.
Hillary won Provincetown 65-34. That’s a gay mecca down on the top of Cape Cod.
Well, that’s great!
Bet they remembered Hillary as SoS changing the State Department benefits to include partner equality. And marching in gay pride parades.
Peggy Noonan really is a jeweled cockroach. A GREAT PARTY IS FALLING APART. It has to be violent to get rid of the teabaggers.
No, moderator, not that kind of violent.
After tonight Hillary is ahead of Bernie in pledged delegates by 182 or more. The Bernie bros still think he can win, but they are threatening to primary Elizabeth Warren because she didn’t endorse him.
Warren might as well have endorsed Hillary. The crazed Bernie cultists have thrown her under the bus anyway. Jeez, they’re really hateful little trolls.
Did you hear Bernie bros posted thousands of abusive comments on Warren’s Facebook page?
What a bunch of whining sore losers. Maybe they should look at their candidate. Or better yet, direct their hate at defeating the Republicans.
Lol. I dare them. The dudebros have a seriously over-inflated sense of their own importance. Warren’s political career is hardly theirs to make or break.
I really think that a lot of the core ‘bros are the same crowd who were so miserably misogynistic and hateful in 2008. Unfortunately, since they were for Obama and he won, they have mistaken correlation for causation; they think he won because of them. They now seem to feel that their support or opposition actually influences events of national importance.
I try to take a page from Hillary’s book and have some dompassion for them in their disappointment, but they make it really hard.
It will be interesting to see all the breakdowns tomorrow. I saw on Twitter that Clinton rocked almost every category in Texas.
Great comment
Nite everyone! Yey!!!
Networks either can’t, or refuse to, understand that caucuses are not the same as primaries. Hillary won by an enormous amount of votes today, and Sanders won his home state, two caucus states, and Oklahoma. That does not equate to a close contest.
Absolutely. Caucuses are not representative.
The delegate count is far and away in HRC’s favor.
Very few people understand the nature of caucuses. Unless you’ve been to one you are likely to believe the “true democracy” B.S.
Agree, In my caucus state there is no provision for voting absentee. I have been phone banking and many Hillary supporters are unable to get to the caucus. It is heartbreaking to talk with them.
One woman told me she is 101 and loves Hillary but has not been able to leave her assisted living facility for anything over than doctor’s appointments for years. She added that she intends to still be around in November and will vote absentee in the general.
We need a new Voting Rights Act.
Exactly. Military personnel serving overseas, elderly, disabled, and working poor who cannot afford to take a half day or even a whole day off are excluded from the process so caucuses tend to be made up of affluent white voters more than anyone else.
Speaking of the other MA primary, I find it interesting that Trump got the highest vote share in MA primary than in any other state so far.
Yes. Awful. But there are lots of racists in MA, unfortunately.
Really? We don’t have any in Virginia. 😉
AK is going Cruz @ 34% to Trump’s 33% with 60% reporting.
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