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pnwmom

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29. The state of Washington has already demonstrated the caucus effect.

Reply to Pacifist Patriot (Reply #24)

Tue Feb 25, 2020, 02:46 PM

Feb 2020

In our caucuses Bernie won with 74%. In our primaries, with almost 4 times as many voters, Hillary won with 53%.

ALL of our delegates were distributed according to the caucus rules. The primary didn't assign any delegates.

This year for the first time ever Washington voters will get to choose our candidate in a primary. The party leadership finally saw the light.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Seth Abramson corrects the record. In NV, Bernie got 34% of the raw vote -- not 47%. [View all] pnwmom Feb 2020 OP

I hate caucuses. They are so undemocratic. honest.abe Feb 2020 #1

It is still a bump though sweetloukillbot Feb 2020 #2

Is this why there was a blast of "drop out now!" posts on here? Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #3

Great! Glad to see anti-Bernie people using first-alignment vote totals as the key metric. DanTex Feb 2020 #4

lol Cal Carpenter Feb 2020 #6

Which means that he's done well in the places he's ALWAYS done well -- caucuses pnwmom Feb 2020 #15

He's not using it as the first metric. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #18

only people with a lot of time on their hands lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #5

Yup,thanks for the truthful update. Wellstone ruled Feb 2020 #7

People here sure did squirecam Feb 2020 #25

Everyone that I spoke to Wellstone ruled Feb 2020 #26

Perception can affect upcoming primaries PatSeg Feb 2020 #8

+1. Disinformation sucks. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #11

Yes PatSeg Feb 2020 #20

And it is a whole lot of it . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #22

by this logic he won iowa dumptrump1 Feb 2020 #9

And he still leads with a minuscule number of voters compared to what's ahead. pnwmom Feb 2020 #12

if delegates are all that matters, he will be able to manipulate the system dumptrump1 Feb 2020 #17

re:" mid-thirties...not going to get him the majority of delegates needed to win in the primaries." thesquanderer Feb 2020 #28

Yep! He has an insurmountable number of delegates. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #30

Sanders is also running around telling people he "won" Iowa, when he got less delegates.... George II Feb 2020 #10

technically he is winning 47% of all the national delegates dumptrump1 Feb 2020 #13

He has 47% (actually 45%) of only 2.6% of the delegates, or 1.2% of all national delegates.... George II Feb 2020 #19

true but the early states are a test of those candidates performance dumptrump1 Feb 2020 #21

here are the final numbers plus the actual delegates awarded (Bernie 24, Biden 9, Pete 3) Celerity Feb 2020 #14

Take heart, we are now voting in primaries Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #16

Your conclusion is inaccurate Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #23

You're right, I was lumping his popularity in with that stated in past polls. He's never broken pnwmom Feb 2020 #27

In 2016... LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #31

Great thread, but even Seth is using language imprecisely. Pacifist Patriot Feb 2020 #24

The state of Washington has already demonstrated the caucus effect. pnwmom Feb 2020 #29

That was strange when I saw that back in 2016. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #32

worried ahlnord Feb 2020 #33

Interesting. Thank you. LizBeth Feb 2020 #34