NBC News Poll: Bernie Sanders Closing Gap On Clinton

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78. Agree with your larger points, but Democratic primaries are not winner-take-all.

You say that Bernie will get 96 delegates if he wins Wisconsin. Hopefully Bernie will do very well in Wisconsin but it's not likely he will get 100% of the pledged delegates. There is only one state so far that has gone 100% to one candidate and that is Bernie's win in Vermont. All the rest have been some split of pledged delegates. And you're including super delegates in that 96 number. There are only 86 pledged delegates in Wisconsin and Bernie can hope to win some percentage of them, not all. And then the other 10 delegates are supers so let's keep those 10 out of the count of the results that we report for the primaries.

And, by the way, the graphic in your sig line is also misleading. The total pledged delegates in Michigan is 130. Your graphic includes the 17 Michigan super delegates in the 147 number and makes it look like Bernie won all 147. The actual split of pledged delegates was 67 for Bernie and 63 for Hillary. So your graphic would be accurate if you changed "147" to "67".

Again, I agree with your main points but you've got some details really mixed up and should fix them in order to better make your case.