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Related: About this forumAs Hillary Loses Big Again, AP Plays the Race Card to Explain Away Sanders' Wisconsin Win
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2016/04/05/hillary-loses-big-again-ap-plays-race-card-explain-away-sanders"Despite headlining the story at its front page as relating to Cruz, AP's story covered both races. Here what Julie Pace and Scott Bauer wrote about Sanders' victory ...
draping front-runners Trump and Clinton in uncertainty and preventing both from fully setting their sights on the general election.
For Sanders, Wisconsin was favorable territory, with an overwhelming white electorate and liberal pockets of voters"
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Darn that Bernie Sanders. He's winning in predominantly white states and distracting Mrs. Clinton from the all-important task of winning the general election."
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As Hillary Loses Big Again, AP Plays the Race Card to Explain Away Sanders' Wisconsin Win (Original Post)
k8conant
Apr 2016
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chillfactor
(7,573 posts)1. sanders picked up +7 delegates...
and this is a BIG win?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)2. Yes it is.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)3. Bernie loves all his delegates forever and ever
Hillary loves them just as long as she needs them.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)5. NYT says +14 over HRC
jfern
(5,204 posts)4. He won Menominee County by 27 points, it's one of the least white counties in the country
delrem
(9,688 posts)7. Probably a "liberal pocket of voters".
Hillary Clinton doesn't do well with liberals. Or the left. Her crowd has to take a deep breath before mouthing the lie that she's "progressive", then scramble like an exposed centipede for the nearest rock.
jfern
(5,204 posts)8. Native Americans in this case
delrem
(9,688 posts)6. It's those dastardly "liberal pockets of voters"!
+12.7% isn't a small margin, when HRC was up by so much just awhile ago.
It's like people are waking up from a snooze.