1. Bernie Sanders Keeps Narrowing The Delegate Gap Without Even Trying
United States Presidential elections are quite a convoluted process. Most states
select district wide delegates that go to their respective party’s state convention,
which then elect national delegates that go on to the GOP National Convention or the
Democratic National Convention in Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively. It
makes sense, somewhat. But if you’re passionate enough to want to sit through
these conventions, it should be your top priority to actually make it out to said
conventions. Which is something that, from the looks of it, Hillary Clinton
supporters aren’t too keen on doing.
So far, we’ve had reporting that Missouri, which was called for Secretary Clinton
after a long, arduous night waiting for a result of a statistical tie, ended up being
flipped in favor of Senator Sanders.
And only a little over a week ago, Nevada was also flipped for the Senator, after
Clinton had won by 5% in the February 20 caucus. But how is this the case?
Because each successive part of the delegate selection process counts on those
delegates showing up to the conventions, any missing delegates can greatly swing
those states in another candidate’s favor. So in Nevada, when some of Clinton’s
delegates didn’t show up to the Clark County Democratic Convention, the state
actually swung to Sanders. And Missouri has shown to be prone to the same thing.
But ?
Well, for one, that Clinton’s pledged delegate count is slowly dropping. Sanders is
slowly working through that gap without having to try. We have many, many more
local conventions to go, as well, which could also flip more statewide results in the
voting. At this moment, the honest delegate gap, after taking into account these new
results, is around 204, which is much lower than a lot of the mainstream media
outlets will tell you.
What will this mean for the “insurmountable path”, as some call it, to the nomination
for Sanders? Ask Secretary Clinton and the MSM outlets after a few more
conventions. Watch this space.