Bottom line on NY: Clinton increases her pledged delegate lead by 31

[jg10003]

It's a setback, but not a fatal blow.

[Csainvestor]

1. it will be less than that after the final count.

Because Bernie won over 90% of every single county in ny he will pick up some more delegates.

[Zynx]

3. That was a bunch of spew. He didn't top 90% in any county

What does this even mean?

[Land of Enchantment]

16. Oh yeah? Maybe you should notify the LA Times....

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-04202016-map-sanders-won-most-counties-in-new-york-but-cl-1461178123-htmlstory.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Delegates are awarded by districts, not counties.

Counties mean nothing.

[Tarc]

5. "Bernie won over 90% of every single county" ?

I'm sorry, but in what universe did this happen?

[Codeine]

10. That's the most factually incorrect statement I've ever seen here,

and this is the place that made "Blow up the moon" a Thing.

[Gomez163]

11. There are 62 counties in NY. Hillary won 13 of them. Bernie won 80% of the counties.

[Gomez163]

14. These are the counties that the GOP won in 2012

[Codeine]

18. President Romney approves this message. nt

[Codeine]

19. Did you really think they awarded delegates for counties?!

[Buzz Clik]

2. There will be no "fatal blow" until June.

[CrowCityDem]

6. Behind as much as he is, he can't afford to lose 1 delegate, let alone 31.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. When it comes to Delegates, this article is enlightening.

Why Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead over Bernie Sanders is bigger than it looks

[Adrahil]

8. Reminds me of....

[Helen Borg]

9. and we got the lawsuit

And a ton of provisional ballots....

[TMontoya]

12. Thats going nowhere

Do you really think they will hold a re-vote in NY and AZ? Get real.

[geek tragedy]

13. Absentee and affidavit ballots haven't been counted yet.

Those numbers could change in a couple of Congressional Districts.

[Proud Public Servant]

15. Sure, all he has to do

Is win every single remaining contest by about the same margin as Hillary won NY. No biggie.

I love Bernie -- but I sure wish I didn't have to maintain a security clearance, because I'd love some of what you're smoking.

[Corporate666]

17. The fatal blow

happened weeks ago when Bernie was ~300.

What people seem to not understand is that this is a timed and distance race. Bernie can't win just by winning every remaining state. He has to win each remaining state by a set margin or he won't catch up.

And each time he loses delegates to Clinton, or even if he fails to "cover the margin", his situation gets worse, because he has even less remaining states to make up the difference in.

There are only 1400 pledged delegates left to win. Bernie needs to win 59% of them in EVERY state going forward. That includes all 5 states next week where he is down in polls by double digits.

The reality is that one week from now, he will be down by over 300 delegates, and there will only be 1,000 delegates left at that point. He's already down in polls in CA and NJ - actually he's down HUGE in NJ, and CA/NJ make up 70% of all the remaining delegates.

He simply has no way forward. I mean, we know he will lose next week. We know he will lose NJ. So unless people think he is realistically going to win California by 81% to 19%, then he has ZERO chance.

And the above assumes that HRC's super delegates would switch to him - there's nothing showing that would necessarily happen.

[Codeine]

20. They clearly don't get the numbers and how they work.

A Sanders supporter even THIS MORNING was musing about how he could catch up by winning PA and CT -- they honestly thought delegates get awarded winner-take-all. How out of the loop do you need to be to not get proportional allocation at this late date?

They're enraged, but they don't really understand what they're raging against.