2016 Postmortem

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:29 PM Mar 2016

More Upsets on the Horizon? 'Yuuuge' Turnout Could Hand Sanders Big Wins on Tuesday

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/14/more-upsets-horizon-yuuuge-turnout-could-hand-sanders-big-wins-tuesday

G E T O U T T H E V O T E ! !

'When working people and young people and older people come out and are determined to end establishment politics and establishment economics...we win.'

Tuesday is poised to be a big day for the Bernie Sanders campaign, as new polls show him closing the gap with rival Hillary Clinton in key states ahead of the next round of presidential primary contests, in which a total of 792 pledged delegates are at stake.

Surveys released Monday had Sanders holding a slight advantage over Clinton in Missouri and Illinois, while he continues to narrow Clinton's lead in Ohio.

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Here's what we know: down by 37 in Illinois just five days ago, Sanders is now up by two according to CBS News; down by 30 in Ohio five days ago, Sanders is now down by only single digits; the only polling in Missouri has Sanders in a statistical dead heat with Clinton, per the poll's margin of error; and while the polling in Florida at first blush seems less favorable—Sanders has "only" cut 17 points off Clinton's 45-point lead in the last 48 hours, according to CBS News -- the Sanders campaign reports its internal polling shows a race in the high single-digits, and given that this internal data turned out to be correct in Michigan, it seems we should all be paying it some mind.