May 17th Primary Results

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Comments

[fenchurchly]

I heard Rachel Maddow talk about it last night, apparently they'd pulled their media buys and hadn't planned any events in the state but changed gears over the weekend so that's why Hillary was campaigning there yesterday. At this point it's about avoiding the headlines/embarrassment of losing states she's won before or is expected to win.

That said, she's absolutely pivoted to the general already (as she should) and at the end of the day all of this is pretty meaningless. I do love Bernie but I dislike that his wins will be co-opted used by Republicans against Hillary in the general. The way to cut that off at the pass is for him to campaign for her after the nomination is locked up and encourage his supporters to get behind her, which I expect him to do.

[fenchurchly]

Hmmm, interesting. Admittedly I haven't read his remarks this week, but have seen the headlines about him dragging the Democratic party.

[spidergwen]

Double wins for Clinton. This is and has been over, ready for it to be final on the 7th

[fenchurchly]

Double wins?

[spidergwen]

She exceeded her projected target. It coming down to a single digit win for Bernie puts him even further from a pledged majority. He needed a blowout in both States today. I think he'll need about 68 or 69% of the remaining delegates now.

[bombay]

[moonshaz]

Yeah, I'm glad, too! I know what you mean about WV.

Right now I'm looking forward to Puerto Rico on 6/5. There are more delegates at stake there than there were in KY, so a big win would mean a lot more there.

And of course there's also the big blowout on 6/7. That should be pretty epic. KY is history now. :)

[bombay]

[browneyedguuurl]

She won't. It'll be closer than people think down here.

[invisiblegirlx]

This just shows that Sanders supporters are not demoralized even though they know he won't win. Usually after it's clear who the nominee is, you start to see the enthusiasm for losing candidate die and they lose by wide margins. This primary is really turning out to be much tougher for the Clinton camp than they had anticipated. If they lose California that would be embarrassing.

[cassiopeiaah]

This is exactly what no one in the post is understanding. Usually at this point people would be rallying behind the candidate and the fact that they aren't is nagl

[invisiblegirlx]

I think the Clinton camp are counting on courting disaffected republicans rather than the left wing of the democratic party, so they don't really care if they lose that group of Bernie voters who won't vote for her. The problem with this plan is that the Republicans are behind Trump far more than the Democrats are behind her right now.

[fozzylogic]

In 2008, President Obama lost 9 of the last 12 contests. It doesn't really mean anything in the scheme of things. However, because it's Hillary Clinton, everyone wants to run with the negative narrative.

[redstar826]

She's pretty much the presumptive nominee at this point, but folks are still turning out to say "no thanks"? Looks like she has some major work to do on unifying the party.