Sanders Sweeps Washington State, Alaska, and Hawaii Caucuses, With 75+% of Vote

Huge, luxurious margins.

Still, Clinton still maintains a wide advantage in delegates, winning 1,243 to Sanders' 975 based on primary and caucuses to date.

Her lead is even bigger when including super-delegates, or party officials who can back any candidate they wish. Clinton has 1,712 to Sanders' 1,004, with 2,383 needed to win.

And Sanders has two structural problems:

1. He does well in caucus states, and there's only two caucus states yet to vote.

2. He still does very poorly with blacks, who are Hillary's most (only?) enthusiastic supporters.

I'll let you ponder why it is that a candidate who does very well with whites and not well with blacks -- as Hillary herself did in the second half of the race of 2008 -- isn't necessarily racist, while many candidates with similar supporter profiles are, per the media's telling, very, very racist indeed.

posted by Ace at 04:15 PM

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