More primary results

[karlhenning]

Note that the Democratic nomination will depend on the superdelegates' votes. Neither candidate has enough pledged delegates to win without superdelegate support. However, Hillary Clinton received 16.2 primary votes to Bernie Sanders's 12.3 million, and I doubt many superdelegates will be impressed with his claim that they should vote for him.

Of course, Sanders is a reasoning human being. He also ran a spectacularly successful campaign, going from a northeastern Senator practically unknown to most of the country, to the challenger who won enough delegates that the very well-known, and extraordinarily well-supported (in terms both organizational and financial) Clinton, even at the end of the primary season, needs to rely on her "superdelegate" advantage (a practice whose raw character came luridly to right practically immediately, in the New Hampshire primary) in order to seal the nomination.

Cheers,
~k.

[John F]

Karl, if there were no superdelegates at all, Clinton would win the nomination with a comfortable majority of 220 pledged delegates. It's Sanders rather than Clinton whose hopes depend on getting superdelegate support, more than he has earned either in the primaries or in his political career.

Bernie Sanders has indeed run a remarkably successful campaign, considering that he wasn't even a Democrat until he had to join the party to compete in many of the primaries. Congratulations to him for that. But he's lost decisively, and it's time for him to stop campaigning against Clinton and join forces with her to defeat Donald Trump, or at least retire gracefully to the sidelines. His reluctance to concede is, for me, an expression of his own ego versus the interests of the party to which he nominally belongs, indeed of the national interest, and a blot on him and his campaign. Enough, already!

[John F]

District of Columbia
Republicans:
Primary held on March 12

Democrats:
Hillary Clinton 78.7%
Bernie Sanders 21.1%

Total delegates
Republicans:
Donald Trump 1,536
Ted Cruz 560
Marco Rubio 167
John Kasich 161
needed for nomination: 1,237

Democrats
Hillary Clinton 2,800 (2,219 elected, 581 superdelegates)
Bernie Sanders 1,881 (1,832 elected, 49 superdelegates)
unpledged superdelegates 84
needed for nomination: 2,383

The primaries are over and this is the final delegate count before the conventions next month.