2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Winning the 13-State-Bible-Belt. Sanders is Still Winning the 37-State-Not-The-Bible-Belt! [View all]Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)I specifically said that Hillary went 5 for 15 outside of the Bible Belt.
I specifically reported her delegate count in each of those states, but if you add up all of Hillary's wins outside of the Bible Belt (both the number of states and the number of delegates), she is losing to Sanders outside the Bible Belt.
I did not suggest that Sanders has gone 15 for 15 outside of the Bible Belt - Missouri was a tie (each won 32 pledged delegates) and Sanders won 9 states while Hillary won just 5 (and Sanders won more overall pledged delegates) in those 15 states.
No body has relocated Iowa, Nevada, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Ohio into the Deep South, but it seems noteworthy that even with these 5 wins, three were incredibly narrow -- 1 delegate margin in Massachusetts and Illinois, 2 in Iowa -- including Hillary's home state where she fell far, far short of projections.