Super Tuesday puts Hillary Clinton firmly on track for the Democratic nomination

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By Emily Schultheis CBS News March 2, 2016, 1:32 AM


Super Tuesday puts Hillary Clinton firmly on track for the Democratic nominatio

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"What a super Tuesday!" she exclaimed. She would go on to win two more later that night.

Super Tuesday was indeed a pivotal day for Clinton, who by winning seven states out of 11, notched all the victories she needed to in order to pull strongly ahead in the delegate race and make the case that she will be the eventual Democratic nominee. She even picked up one state her campaign wasn't expecting to win: Massachusetts.

On the biggest voting day of the primary season, Clinton defeated Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders across the South, racking up large double-digit victories in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee. She won the general-election swing state of Virginia. Her wide margins of victory in delegate-rich places like Texas and Georgia will help the former secretary of State pull even further ahead in the delegate count, making it difficult for Sanders to catch up delegate-wise going forward.


An especially big victory for Clinton was in Massachusetts, which is virtually Sanders's backyard. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton led Sanders by 2 points in the state, winning by about 25,000 votes.......................

Sanders, by contrast, won in four states: Vermont, his home state, as well as Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota. Those four states, along with Massachusetts, were where his campaign had invested significant resources or put television advertisements on the air.

The results Tuesday night confirmed Clinton's strengths -- and Sanders's weaknesses -- carry over from the first four states, reinforcing her campaign's argument that she is the Democrat who can win in diverse states across the map. Among African Americans and Latinos, for example, she won by huge double-digit margins. She also did well among older voters, which tend to make up a larger share of the electorate than young voters do.
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Another big win! Hillary just won Massachusetts. #ImWithHer #SuperTuesday

[Alfresco]

1. Yes it does.

[auntpurl]

2. I actually think Virginia was the big story

I expect Mass to go blue no matter who the nominee is in the GE. Virginia is a state that will make things a LOT easier to get the needed numbers to defeat Trump (or whatever pondscum takes the Repub nomination).

Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, Ohio...these are the ones we need to win in November. Hillary is doing very well in all of them. Very promising!

[riversedge]

4. yes, probably so. Mass was big last night

because Sanders predicted he would win. So it was a sweet win for Hillary.

[auntpurl]

6. Yes, it was the "feelgood" win.

And who doesn't need one of those once in a while?

But Virginia is the one that made me think, "YES."

[oasis]

3. Hillary clearly has a glide path to victory.

I don't believe Bernie has it in him to interfere with destiny, and will take it easy from here, but his campaign managers and hangers on may have other ideas.

[casperthegm]

5. Congrats to HRC

I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Bernie supporter I plan to redouble my efforts, continue to donate to his campaign, spread his message of honesty and integrity, and call out smears when they are thrown his way. To steal a phrase from John Paul Jones, "I've not yet begun to fight."

[NurseJackie]

7. Indeed it does!! I love reality!!

Go, Hillary! We love you!