Wednesday Reads: New York it’s a wonderful town….

Well, it is good news from the Empire State.

Hilary Won!!!!

NYC is a big focus for me today…my daughter is heading there for her school chorus trip. Imagine, riding a bus back and forth…16 hours each way only to spend two days in Manhattan. Exhausting? Hells yeah!

So, here are the links for this afternoon, in quick like fashion.

Hillary has Democratic nomination sewed up – Business Insider

 

Technically, the Democratic presidential contest is not yet over.

But let’s be real. It’s over. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.

It’s not just that Bernie Sanders lost delegate-rich New York by a wide margin Tuesday night. It’s that the margins by which he’d need to win in the remaining contests to overtake Clinton are implausible.

Currently, Clinton has 55% of the pledged delegates and almost 2.7 million more votes than Sanders.

That might not sound like a huge lead, but almost two-thirds of the pledged delegates have already been awarded. So, as Nate Cohn of The New York Times notes, Sanders would need to win the remaining contests by an average of 18 points to overtake Clinton in pledged delegates. So far, he’s only managed that big a margin in two primary states: New Hampshire and Vermont, his home state.

Sanders’ best states tend to be low-population, heavily white states that hold caucuses. The remaining calendar is dominated by diverse, medium-to-large states holding primaries, with 69% of the delegates remaining to be awarded coming from just five states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Indiana.

Low-population, heavily white states….what does that leave for Hilary? The states that “distort reality,”

FiveThirtyEight has produced an updated schedule of what Sanders would have to accomplish in the remaining contests to get to a tie in pledged delegates. He’d need to win every remaining state except Maryland and Delaware, and he’d have to win most of them by margins ranging from solid to overwhelming: Pennsylvania by 9, New Jersey by 12, Connecticut by 16, California by 18. None of that is in line with prior results or current polling.

A Homecoming, and a Triumph, for Hillary Clinton in New York – The New York Times

Clinton: ‘Victory is in sight’ – video | US news | The Guardian

Clinton triumphs; Sanders slumps. Now the real contest can begin | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian

ike the Monty Python parrot, the Bernie Sanders campaign is no more. It has ceased to be. Its metabolic processes are now history. It’s kicked the bucket and shuffled off its mortal coil.

It has been an ex-campaign since Super Tuesday, when Sanders fell so far behind Clinton in the delegate count that he needed lopsided victories to get back into contention for the convention.

That didn’t happen in New York on Tuesday night. And according to the polls, it won’t happen in any of the big states left: Maryland, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey.

Clinton will enter the convention with a clear lead among pledged delegates. On that basis, there is no room for Sanders to argue that the superdelegates should ignore the popular vote and the mood of the party to flip their support.

Team Clinton to Sanders: It’s over | TheHill

Trump shifts to more experienced advisers looking to convention | MSNBC

Samantha Bee’s Preview of the New York Primary Was Hilarious – Little Green Footballs

Risk of Sanders attacks on Clinton lingering | MSNBC

Ted Cruz’s Night of Humiliation Continues as He Loses to Ben Carson in New York District

Trump nearly sweeps NY delegates | TheHill

Clinton and Trump wins in New York change little on national scale | US news | The Guardian

Just a few links that are not about the NY Primary….

Payday loans caused 50 percent of borrowers to be hit with overdraft fees: feds

Are super smart octopuses conscious? | Earth | EarthSky

Humans of New York

Humans of New York began as a photography project in 2010. The initial goal was to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers on the street, and create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. Somewhere along the way, I began to interview my subjects in addition to photographing them. And alongside their portraits, I’d include quotes and short stories from their lives.

Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog. HONY now has over twenty million followers on social media, and provides a worldwide audience with daily glimpses into the lives of strangers on the streets of New York City. Over the past five years, it has also expanded to feature stories from over twenty different countries. The work is also featured in two bestselling books: Humans of New York and Humans of New York: Stories.

 

This is an open thread…