APPLAUDING Bernie Sanders For Tonight's WINS

[Segami]

Bernie won:

* Vermont

* Colorado

* Minnesota

* Oklahoma

* * Close to tie with Massachusetts.


CHEERS TO BERNIE!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. And Minnesota!

[oregonjen]

2. Colorado!!

[Segami]

15. Something happened when I posted.....

Don't know....

I had them all listed......I might have had a few of them highlighted as I posted....could have erased them....oh well

[itsrobert]

3. You forgot Colorado and Minnesota

????

[Chantel]

4. And Minnesota!

And, Bernie also won Minnesota!

[metroins]

5. Bernie needed MA

I'm personally surprised he won OK but you can't spin this as a pro Sanders night.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. He lost MA by 2%

Not exactly a rout.

[metroins]

13. Not saying it was/is

But as a Hillary supporter, I expected to lose MA.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

21. I'm not sure why

She was highly favored to win Massachusetts. fivethirtyeight had the metapoll at 50.9% Clinton, 43.2% Sanders, with 94% chance of a Clinton win. Sanders did better than expected, but no recent polls showed him winning.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-forecast/massachusetts-democratic/

[metroins]

28. I only

Trust primary polls so much.

And personally, I expected to lose VT, CO, MN and MA.

I was hoping to win OK.

I expected TX to be closer because of Austin.

I'm not saying I was right, I'm only trying to convey my personal expectations.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

30. Fair enough

Polls aren't perfect by any means.

[metroins]

32. Cheers

[Unknown Beatle]

73. San Antionio and El Paso are big Bernie cities as well.

[snowy owl]

60. A little over 2% - of course, MSNBC showed it as 3%

they disgust me

[Recursion]

8. MA is disappointing as hell

I'm glad the margins in MN and CO were as large as they were, but MA is tough to take. He lost Cambridge, for God's sake...

[metroins]

17. I have to look into MN

I expected a large margjn in CO.

[Recursion]

20. Both are just south of 60/40

I was expecting closer, personally

[SCantiGOP]

63. Look at the numbers

In the four states that Sanders won he picked up 28 more delegates than Clinton. In Texas alone she picked up 95 more delegates than Sanders.
In fact, in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia she had a bigger margin in delegates won in each individual state than Sanders had in his four wins combined.

[Gregorian]

22. I remember it was the only state George McGovern won.

I'm happier tonight.

[snowy owl]

27. That's a downer for me too

I'm totally upset with Vicky Kennedy. I think Ted would have endorsed Bernie just like he went off the reservation and endorsed Obama.

[metroins]

29. I can see that nt

[Herman4747]

40. I too was shocked he lost Cambridge.

I thought it would go 80% to 20% in his favor.

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. So sorry about that. We tried like hell. We kept the margin pretty close

though don't ya think?

Gotta hit the hay now. It's been a crazy last few days.

-F2C

[renate]

52. thank you for everything you did!

Get some nice rest.

[zentrum]

55. Yes, that's how I feel too…..

What the hell happened?

Is it a question of Harvard students being from families of the 1%?

[Recursion]

56. She won in 2008 too; she probably has an excellent ground operation there

I doubt the 7000 Harvard Students made a big dent in the overall numbers.

[zentrum]

59. Good point.

[zentrum]

64. Did you see

……these exit poll stats from CNN?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511394546

He won 52-46 according to them.
We'll now never know unless the people of Mass. demand an investigation. And still, we'll never know.

But if true, it makes more sense to me.

[MillennialDem]

19. Yeah you can. He was expected to get blown out - he stole a surprise state, won a

swing state massively, won a borderline swing state, won his home state, and almost tied HRC in MA.

It gets easier for Bernie now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. No he did not

it actually was much closer than 2008

Here you go

Percentage of the vote Delegates

Hillary Clinton 56% 55

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday,_2008

[bvf]

37. I wouldn't sweat it if I were "you."

[merrily]

61. MA was close enough.

Few personality traits are more repugnant than being a sore winner.

[dchill]

6. Hear, hear!

[saltpoint]

9. I think that Sanders guy did ok

in Minnesota and Colorado, too.

[Codeine]

10. He could have had a worse night, I'll give you that.

Looks like he's knocking it out of the park in MN.

[MillennialDem]

24. He exceeded expectations.

[Codeine]

26. So did she, for that matter.

Look at those margins down south.

[morningfog]

31. She's got a lock on the southern states. I mean slammed tight lock.

[MillennialDem]

36. Once again, the south holds us back. in before the lock.

[rhett o rick]

11. On to the convention. nm

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

12. He not only won those states,

But he exceeded polls in all of them

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Take a bow, all of us!!!!

[Gregorian]

16. All in all, not a bad Tuesday.

[Avalux]

18. Great night for Bernie, and US!

[bvf]

23. Whistles!!

A shit ton!!

[global1]

33. And He Came In Second In All The Other States....

He deserves another campaign donation from me. Let's make the month of March a bigger $ month than February.

Go Bernie!!!

Feel the Bern!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. The best thing about Bernie winning Minnesota

(and I was pretty sure he would - I don't know a single soul here who supports Clinton) is that the state party pooh-bahs - the Governor and both Senators and most of the party operatives - were all in for Hillary. And it didn't fucking help because the people wanted Bernie!

[Segami]

35. Now thats a firm message sent.

[Avalon Sparks]

38. A testament to the amazing Paul Wellstone too!

no doubt many in Minnesota understand Sanders is just like Wellstone. They were very good friends you know, those two amazing men for the people.

[harun]

66. People in CO were saying the same

Every party leader for Hillary, state goes to Bernie.

[jalan48]

39. Bern, baby Bern!

[Thespian2]

41. Did anyone expect him to win

in the Repukkkian South? No. But winning in states other than the south makes him a powerful candidate who would beat any Repukkkian in a landslide...


HRM...loses to them...What was that about electability?

[CoffeeCat]

42. I am very excited that this campaign will roll on!

The longer Bernie stays in, the better.

I felt incredibly gobsmacked at the NV loss; and SC was tough.

However, Bernie won four states and tied in MA tonight. This proves that he still has momentum and a significant slice of the support.

We're so accustomed to these primaries being wrapped up early. This one is not.

The longer he stays in the race--the more people get to know him--and that translates into more people moving to his camp.

I am really encouraged by these Super Tuesday results!

[retrowire]

43. WOOOOOOOOOOO

We're only 24% done people, let's keep going!

[Uncle Joe]

45. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[xloadiex]

46. BIG Applause for Bernie!

We did great tonight! Let's keep it going. I'm feeling energized

Ma now showing 1.8% difference.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

47. In the South

it was expected...it never ever votes for progressive Democrats. It votes Republican. That's why Hillary won. Bernie had a super night (except for Mass which was really close) and now has the time and the money to keep rolling.

K&R

[JDPriestly]

48. K&R.

[SoapBox]

49. Go Bernie!

Go Berners!

[warrprayer]

50. The BERN

Is Rising

[Orange Butterfly]

51. Minnesota is progressive is why...

he won in MN.

MN has been a progressive blue state for a long time.

[LovingA2andMI]

53. Congrats Bernie!!!

Onward to Michigan were it's time to HIT A PHONE BANK on Wednesday!!

[werknotgoin2takeit]

54. Hello yeah!

I'm more committed then ever. I Will be working to give WA to Bernie. Our time hasn't come yet.

[marions ghost]

57. Cheers and No Fears

to everyone working for Bernie in all those states, whether "won or lost" --
you are awesome!

[Gene Debs]

58. And the Bernier states are still to come.

[yuiyoshida]

62. K&R and Tweeted

[Enthusiast]

65. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[UglyGreed]

67. Yeah!!!!!

[whatchamacallit]

68. Of course there's a gun nut in that gif

Yay Bernie!!!

[PatrynXX]

69. love the guy with the gun in a church

no problem though it's fiction fictional guns okay

[Dont call me Shirley]

70. Get calm and Bernie on!

[840high]

71. K/R

[Akamai]

72. And an incredible thing to remember is that Bernie only started about nine months ago!

Before then, he was working as a very, very progressive senator, and before then, he was a representative doing very progressive and useful things.

He repeatedly said before he started running that if someone like Elizabeth Warren would run, then he would not do so. Finally, after week after week, on the Thom Hartmann radio show, people kept urging him to run and saying that he was the best candidate they could imagine, he reluctantly decided to run. But certainly, unlike his opponent, he had not been planning to run for a year before now.

Secretary Of State Clinton almost certainly laid the groundwork for her run in getting elected as senator from the great state of New York.

But Sen. Sanders is running on issues, and the issues of the times forced him to run.

He is already making his run very, very worthwhile as his issues -- his major issues certainly embraced by more than half of the pubic -- are becoming more and more known.

So many of us too believe that he has a chance of slowing and reversing climate change and saving the planet.

Hopefully ending our ongoing nightmares of global extinction (or at least giving us more assurance that we are doing all that we can) is certainly enough incentive to contribute regularly to his campaign. But the idea that he will make life better for everyone within the country, and in reasonable ways--by taxing the rich appropriately, by reversing Citizens United, by providing government paid for college, etc.--his story is remarkable, transforming, and should be heard by everyone.

Go Bernie!