Democratic Primaries

democrattotheend

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6. To be fair

Wed Mar 4, 2020, 02:28 PM

Mar 2020

Most of the places Bloomberg took votes from Biden were red states we won't win in the fall - TN, AR, OK, and AL for sure, and TX and NC are reaches for us.

Warren also got more votes than Bloomberg in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Minnesota and Virginia. Bernie probably would have won the Maine, Massachusetts and maybe Minnesota if Warren hadn't been on the ballot. But he would have done worse in a lot of other states if Bloomberg had not been on the ballot.

OTOH, I am not assuming all of Warren's voters would go to Bernie - probably about 60%. Probably about 80-90% of Bloomberg's voters had Biden as their second choice, so Bernie will probably do worse going forward in a 2-person race unless he can expand his base of support.

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

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Winning a majority of the votes cast... [View all] Moderateguy Mar 2020 OP

Bernie won Vermont by 28.8 points . That is considered a landslide. CentralMass Mar 2020 #1

A majority is 50% of the votes cast plus 1. Moderateguy Mar 2020 #2

Numbers are hard... so... here! Maybe this will help! ;-) NurseJackie Mar 2020 #3

+++ 2naSalit Mar 2020 #5

These arguments are ridiculous. Bernie recieved 50.8% of the vote, Biden recieved 22%. CentralMass Mar 2020 #4

To be fair democrattotheend Mar 2020 #6