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jmowreader

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9. They need to look a little closer at the states Bernie wins
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 01:32 AM
Apr 2016

We keep hearing Bernie "won the last seven contests." And so he did, but here are the numbers from those contests:

Idaho: 18 delegates
Utah: 27 delegates
Alaska: 13 delegates
Hawaii: 17 delegates
Washington State: 74 delegates
Wisconsin: 48 delegates
Wyoming: 7 delegates

Total: 204 delegates

Contrast that to Hillary running the table on March 15:
Florida: 141 delegates
Illinois: 76 delegates
Missouri: 36 delegates
North Carolina: 59 delegates
Ohio: 81 delegates

In the whole race, he's only left a state with fifty or more delegates twice: he snagged 67 of them in Michigan and 74 in Washington. Hillary did it four times on the same day. (And in case you're wondering, he's actually won three fewer contests than she has - she has 20, he has 17.)

Bernie is not behind in delegates because he is low on SDs. He is behind because the people in the big, delegate-rich states don't like him.

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