Alpha's Primary Election Live Blog for 4/26
Submitted by Alphalop on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 6:31pm
It's that time again!
Lets hope for some upsets tonight. 
I will be posting the results as I get them and just generally chatting and posting my inanae thoughts as usual and hope you guys join me again.
Here is a link for the YTT live show.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48o2S1cPoo]
(If the feed changes I will try to update it.
Also here is the link for the Guardian Live results with Mini-Bernie.
I'm gonna try to stick with it till all the results are in but I am feeling a bit under the weather tonight but as long as it doesn't get worse I will be here.
Comments
Come on Birdie, do me proud in CT... Bring it
home. Want to think my calls and canvassing made a difference. CT still close w 63.3% reporting Birdie leads 49.3 to 48.9.
Don't believe everything you think.
heh, get a hug, misery loves company, just look at MD /nt
I can't believe it.
I seriously can't believe that Trump is being nicer to Bernie and those of us that support him than Hillary is. What kind of topsy turvy Bizarro world is this? Sure, he would love Bernie to run as an independent if he's the nominee because it splits the Democratic electorate, but at this point, I honestly feel comfortable enough voting for Jill Stein and letting Trump destroy Hillary in November, especially after the coordinated attacks against pro-Bernie Facebook groups last night.
Yep - it really doesn't matter if he does or not
Hillary is still going to lose. I don't think the DNC fully appreciates how much people hate her.
Trump actually announced tonight that the Democratic
party was being unfair to Bernie. No shit Sherlock.
Don't believe everything you think.
Trump does not have an elite cabal to ask permission
before he opens his mouth. He's just a fool with money and a WWE-sized ego.
"But in America particularly, a deep worry is now consciously gnawing the ruling class—they can see it, feel it: that the American Empire is on its last legs, close to collapse."-- Simplicius
66.7 and still a .4 point deficit for Sanders in Conn
Statewide results
468/701 precincts (66.7%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
108,019
49.3%
Bernie Sanders
107,061
48.9%
219,089 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
only down by 0.1% in Ct now...
Gaining ground again... Lord that ones close
Hillary is going to win Conn. I think
Harford Co. is the lowest percentage reported and she's winning that.
I'm afraid that ones going to be gone, too.
70% Reporting in Conn, Hillary leads by .8
491/701 precincts (70%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
116,045
49.5%
Bernie Sanders
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Hillary widens Conn lead to 1.8 points.
Statewide results
527/701 precincts (75.1%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
125,992
50.0%
Bernie Sanders
121,227
48.1%
251,784 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
for some reason all that comes to mind is this song
Trump is right. Sanders should run as an independent.
"But in America particularly, a deep worry is now consciously gnawing the ruling class—they can see it, feel it: that the American Empire is on its last legs, close to collapse."-- Simplicius
Anyone note how freaking CLOSE so many of the PA counties are??
I mean, it is verry strange
Phoooey
Hill now leading in Conn. Break out the absinthe...
Euterpe2
Guardian calls Conn for Clinton.
I'm going to bed.
Tomorrow we keep fighting.... sigh...
thanks Alphalop! Feel better!
Thanks for coming!
I had a blast as always despite the outcomes.
Was honestly not expecting a single win so even one still doesn't feel too terrible.
Thanks for the well wishes also!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Conn Called for Hillary with 79.8% in
Statewide results
560/701 precincts (79.8%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
134,561
50.2%
Bernie Sanders
128,522
48.0%
267,964 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well, I hope I am wrong...
But barring a Clinton Indictment this may very well be the night that the Democrats guaranteed a Republican White House.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
72.8% Reporting in PA. Bernie's gap decreases slightly.
Statewide results
6,681/9,168 precincts (72.8%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
642,113
56.2%
Bernie Sanders
490,964
42.9%
1,143,157 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Regarding Van Hollen's win, I'm not sure
that federal employees were responsible for voting him in--unless there's an exit poll to that effect.
I say that, because as a federal retiree, I can vouch for the fact that some of us would never consider voting for Van Hollen, since he is/was one of the major cheerleaders for the Fiscal Commission's proposal (Bowles-Simpson).
It's a sad day when a Van Hollen can defeat Donna Edwards.
*Sigh*
Mollie
"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."--Author Unknown
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Sad to see Edwards lose
Considering how we have been hammered over the head that Bernie is supposed to be racist and sexist, it's funny that in a state that Hillary won so heavily, the more liberal, black, female candidate lost to a the white male from a political dynasty. Goes to show, it was probably always about centrism and who holds the most establishment power in both races.
Spot on
Wonder how long it will be before Sanders supporters are blamed for the loss?
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
Let those cowards fling their blame around.
They've been blaming everybody but themselves and their own smelly asses for decades now. I do not give a damn what they do, and I'll bet that deep down inside, Bernie Sanders doesn't, either.
That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
This isn't about liberal, black and female dignity and empowerment, as Hillary's handlers/marketers/public relations team would like the gullible public to believe. They've carefully crafted an image, a brand (to use the latest corporate vernacular) to sell a still-stuck in the mainstream American world of consumerism, rampant individualism and chasing the purposely elusive American Dream™.
This is about a naked and ferocious power grab.
It was never about Progressive values or vision.
Recently Donna Edwards was on the cover of the Nation, who have only two other times in their 150 year history were one of the few publications to endorse Bernie. They reported that even the Congressional Black Caucus PAC did not endorse her, even though she bizarrely supported Hillary, saying women are the ultimate "outsiders."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
67.2% reporting in Md, Sanders flips Carroll County
Statewide results
1,338/1,989 precincts (67.2%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
453,366
63.5%
Bernie Sanders
234,252
32.8%
714,280 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Ok, I guess with regard to fighting on: Now more than ever!
Geez, The United States - not only a hard nut hard to crack, it's like cracking a whole yuuuge tree of hard nuts.
I am dreaming of being a nutcracker. May be then I just could dream of something beautiful like this:
Ok the music wasn't what I needed right now. So I redacted it.
Tomorrow is another day.
well, this music gets actually on my nerves, I will redact the
comment and take it out.
And many thanks, Alphalop, for hosting this live election blog for tonight. I really like to have a "go to place and go to man" for this.
Good Night.
Lol, Mimi, you crack me up!
Good night!
Hillary declared winner in CT...
Norwalk is still not in that will go to Hillary...
As will Seymour, Glastonbury
South Windsor and Middlefield I'm not sure which way they will go, too small to matter...
http://www.courant.com/politics/elections/hc-connecticut-primary-results-20160426-htmlstory.html
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Thanks everyone for joining me tonight!
As always it was great watching the Returns with everyone and I look forward to doing it again soon.
Keep up your spirits, it ain't over.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI]
I'm off to pop a couple anti-histamines and some muscle relaxers.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
What is there to say...
When some of the poorest people in the USA with the assistance of Unions team up with the wealthiest people in the USA give the Wall Street candidate the victory in Connecticut tonight.
Fuck.
That about cover it?
This shit is bananas.
It was going okay for a while in CT...
New Haven went for Hillary early
New London and Middletown went for Bernie giving that midway boost...
Then Bridgeport, Hartford and Waterbury came in for Hillary... it was over...
Stamford, Bridgeport and Norwalk were pretty much guaranteed to go for Hillary...
The good ol Fairfield County Gold Coast section of New York... Oops I mean Connecticut...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Thanks Alpha and all
It's nice to be informed by people with spirit, despite the results.
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