Bernie picks up extra delegates in Colorado at the State and CD conventions.
My mom is a Bernie delegate at the Colorado state convention today. The election day results on March 1st were 58.98% Bernie, 40.31% Hillary. She texted me to say that today's results were 1915 delegates for Bernie and 1129 delegates for Hillary. That's 62% for Bernie! I guess there were a lot a Hillary no-shows who didn't want to drive to Loveland in the spring snowstorm we're having. The delegate allocation to the national convention is 6 for Bernie and 3 for Hillary. I'm not sure, but that might be +1 for Bernie and -1 for Hillary vs. the expected split.
Most of the rest of Colorado's 66 pledged delegates were determined at the congressional district conventions. Here is how those went according to this page on the Colorado Dems site.
CD1 Sanders 5 Clinton 3
CD2 Sanders 4 Clinton 3
CD3 Sanders 4 Clinton 2
CD4 Sanders 3 Clinton 2
CD5 Sanders 3 Clinton 2
CD6 Sanders 3 Clinton 3
CD7 Sanders 4 Clinton 2
State Sanders 6 Clinton 3
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Totals Sanders 32 Clinton 20
That's 61.5% for Bernie, but that only accounts for 52 of Colorado's 66 pledged delegates. I'm not sure how the remaining 14 are allocated. Perhaps those were locked in based on the March 1st percentages. If so, I think that would be 8 for Bernie and 6 for Clinton. That would make the totals 40 for Bernie and 26 for Clinton, which is +14 for Bernie. However, the local ABC affiliate is reporting 41 for Bernie and 25 for Clinton, which is +16 for Bernie! clonal_antibody on Kossacks_for_Sanders is saying that the extra Bernie delegate is due to corrections of some errors in the numbers on caucus night that favored Hillary. The calculator on demrace.com only has Bernie at +10 so this is great news!
Edit: The Denver Post has a story up. Bernie Sanders bests Hillary Clinton at Colorado Democratic convention
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By my count
that puts Sanders at an even -200. These dribs and drabs are adding up.
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At this time in 2008, Clinton
At this time in 2008, Clinton was about -140. Bernie has a tough road to a win, but there is no way in hell he should drop out.
On March 16th...
On March 16th, the MSM, Hillary campaign, and every talking head out there said it was over. They then said it was impossible to even get close. Everything was inevitable in their minds. All they did was cause us to work harder, caused Bernie to campaign harder, and to work for every delegate out there. The fact we have closed the gap by more than 100 delegates since then with only 2 large states on the table in that time (WA & AZ) is unbelievable. NV flipping, and widening the margin in CO is amazing. It is a tough road, but Bernie and all of us have proved all the naysayers wrong. We pull off NY and the Hillary campaign will be in the start of a downward spiral that they probably will not recover from. NY is the key to this. Onward to Victory
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California voted on Super Tuesday (Feb. 5th) in 2008.
The calendar is very different. Apples and oranges comparison. If Bernie hits 48% in NY, there is still a chance. If he wins NY, his momentum will give him an excellent chance. And of course if Clinton or her subordinates are indicted, that hands it to Bernie on a silver platter. He would win landslides and get the super delegates.
Yay CD7!
At my precinct in CD7, it was 57 Bernie, 21 Hillary.
Thank you for the news, Ken.
Go Bernie!!
Bernie is not out of this
by a long shot. I still think Clinton will implode.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Clinton knows Bernie is not out of it
That is why she is being so vicious. If he weren't a threat she could afford to be gracious. If she knows how to be gracious, that is.
Twain Disciple
She knows how to play lady of the manor (Hyacinth Bucket with
different ambitions?). True graciousness is treating everyone the same, as a very gracious Southern lady of impeccable manners once told me. Hillary fails this test big. She plays roles. She plays gracious. Once the eyes are open to what's beneath her veneer, it can't be unseen. What I see there means I could never vote for her, no matter what.
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Beat me to it!
Ha! Beat me to it!
Wow. You could knock me over with a feather.
I was certain that HRC's agents were going to ratfuck the convention somehow, like by bringing in hundreds of non-credentialed people to swamp the system. I had given up after our county convention... I am flat-out amazed that this came out as closely to the actual vote in the original precinct caucuses. Some serious unskewing took place there. Full marks to the Sanders people who believed, and somehow made it happen.
Well you know Hillary's Delegates...
Easy Come... Easy Go...
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~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
I've been wondering . . .
We've had all these states where Hillary supporters participated in early voting and the early voting took place before people in those states really became aware of Bernie. On the evening of the primary those early votes were tallied before most of the evening's results were in, always putting her ahead in the early results. Now we've had a couple of conventions where some of Hillary's delegates did not show up.
Could it be that the ones that have not shown up regret voting so early and precluding a choice on primary (or caucus) night?
Naw, in Caucus states (at
Naw, in Caucus states (at least Washington) you have to actually show up on caucus day to be a delegate. Although that does mean if most of her votes were early voting votes it makes it hard to get solid delegates.
I don't understand
These Hillary delegates that don't show up are essentially disenfranchising the people who voted for Clinton. Even though my candidate benefits from this, I still don't think that it's right.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Maybe they changed their minds and decided
they could not support HRC and figured their alts would fill in. Except the alts apparently also changed their minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Yes, its very irresponsible on their part.
But that isn't the fault of our side, its a fault of the caucus process. These delegates should be stalwarts for their candidate. Hell or high water, if I were a Bernie Delegate I'd get to the caucus. Maybe they were still paying off the deductible for their crap health insurance in April and thought they'd give a second look at "Medicare for all" instead of "It will never, ever, happen."
The entire primary system is
The entire primary system is a huge clusterfuck. But the point to keep in mind is that the Party establishment deliberately made it that, because in a normal campaign season, it all works to the benefit of the establishment. Usually it is the establishment that has everything under control, while any outsiders struggle to work their way through all the labyrinthine twists and turns. The fact that we are beating them at their own game just makes our side's accomplishments that much more remarkable. The deck is stacked, the cards are marked, the dice are loaded - and we are holding our own anyway. That is NOT something for us to be ashamed of or apologetic for. God knows, if it went the other way, the Clinton campaign would fight tooth and nail to keep the win.