[US Election 2016] Democratic Primary Megathread

[Mike the Progressive]

I think the great thing about New Hampshire is that it reflects America well. Sure, it's 94% white. Sure only 6% of the state is either black, Asian, or Latino. But yeah.... go Bernie.

Rationalizing HRC's defeat. Understandable.

I mean you gotta take it with a grain of salt.

[Geilinor]

I think the great thing about New Hampshire is that it reflects America well. Sure, it's 94% white. Sure only 6% of the state is either black, Asian, or Latino. But yeah.... go Bernie.

Rationalizing HRC's defeat. Understandable.

New Hampshire isn't very representative of the country or the end result. It doesn't matter in the long run is the point.

[New Jerzylvania]

My prediction:

Bernie Sanders: 57% to 60%
Hillary Clinton: 40% to 43%

Thats a range. Predictions are precise. I like the range though.

[Mike the Progressive]

For the curious, NH exit polls:

http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/nh/Dem

Interesting Hillary only took 52% of the minority vote (per the exit poll, anyway).

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

[Galactic Assembly of Free Planets]

I'm not sure how much of this isn't serious.

0% of it is intellectually serious.

I'm confused...

Hillary can lose here without too much damage. If Sanders does badly in SC his campaign will be on life support.

He has some nice momentum now and it's likely he won't lose badly in SC.

Hopefully not. Politico had this piece out: Most Americans unwilling to vote for a socialist according to a Gallup survey released halfway through last year.
How likely is it that such will change by the time I graduate from high school?

[The Romulan Republic]

For the curious, NH exit polls:

http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/nh/Dem

Interesting Hillary only took 52% of the minority vote (per the exit poll, anyway).

Won't stop assholes from insisting Sanders is a white men's candidate.

[Galloism]

Interesting Hillary only took 52% of the minority vote (per the exit poll, anyway).

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

Well it's just this touting has been of the "minority firewall" of Clinton. Now, as you have justly pointed out, Bernie was basically destined to win New Hampshire, but with the way people have been talking about the minority vote, I was expecting at least a 70/30 split hillary's favor among the minority vote (if not 80/20).

[Mike the Progressive]

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

Well it's just this touting has been of the "minority firewall" of Clinton. Now, as you have justly pointed out, Bernie was basically destined to win New Hampshire, but with the way people have been talking about the minority vote, I was expecting at least a 70/30 split hillary's favor among the minority vote (if not 80/20).

Considering 94% of the state is white....

[The Republic of American Freedom]

Interesting Hillary only took 52% of the minority vote (per the exit poll, anyway).

Won't stop assholes from insisting Sanders is a white men's candidate.

Think about it. An old white man from a very white state is saying we should all be like the Scandinavian Countries which are very white. Food for thought.

[Galloism]

Well it's just this touting has been of the "minority firewall" of Clinton. Now, as you have justly pointed out, Bernie was basically destined to win New Hampshire, but with the way people have been talking about the minority vote, I was expecting at least a 70/30 split hillary's favor among the minority vote (if not 80/20).

Considering 94% of the state is white....

Minority people vote white peoples' way in majority white states?

Keep in mind, that was 52% of the minority vote, not the total vote. That means white people were excluded.

[Wallenburg]

Interesting Hillary only took 52% of the minority vote (per the exit poll, anyway).

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

52% < 4/7.

[Geilinor]

Won't stop assholes from insisting Sanders is a white men's candidate.

Think about it. An old white man from a very white state is saying we should all be like the Scandinavian Countries which are very white. Food for thought.

Scandinavia is now less white than New Hampshire and Iowa.

[Galloism]

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

52% < 4/7.

Well, yeah. It's 13/25.

[New Jerzylvania]

Rationalizing HRC's defeat. Understandable.

New Hampshire isn't very representative of the country or the end result. It doesn't matter in the long run is the point.

I get the point. Long run yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's focus on tonight.

Give Bernie his well earned victory and let his people enjoy it. In the end it will be better for party unity. Don't rain on the Sanders parade TONIGHT. Same can be said for when Hillary wins. In the end, we must unite behind the winner. So, let's not diminish the other, especially on a night like this.

[Mike the Progressive]

Won't stop assholes from insisting Sanders is a white men's candidate.

Think about it. An old white man from a very white state is saying we should all be like the Scandinavian Countries which are very white. Food for thought.

Hey man, Bernie won a hard fought state that's truly representative of America: New Hampshire.

[Mike the Progressive]

Yeah. 4 out of 7 isn't that bad.

52% < 4/7.

Polls aren't closed yet, tiger.

[Galactic Assembly of Free Planets]

Rationalizing HRC's defeat. Understandable.

I mean you gotta take it with a grain of salt.

True. New Hampshire's right next to Vermont, and who knows how many of those crazy New Englanders would vote for a socialist?
Meanwhile, in more ethnically diverse America, the ethnoi of the nation have not yet merged their psyches enough that they cease to have any potential of seeing socialists as basically ransacking their coffers to pay shiftless brownies...or have they? I dunno.
No seriously, is anti-socialism going to be a big problem going forward to SC or not?

[The Republic of American Freedom]

I mean you gotta take it with a grain of salt.

True. New Hampshire's right next to Vermont, and who knows how many of those crazy New Englanders would vote for a socialist?
Meanwhile, in more ethnically diverse America, the ethnoi of the nation have not yet merged their psyches enough that they cease to have any potential of seeing socialists as basically ransacking their coffers to pay shiftless brownies...or have they? I dunno.
No seriously, is anti-socialism going to be a big problem going forward to SC or not?

Hopefully, because the last thing America needs is Socialism.

[Galactic Assembly of Free Planets]

Won't stop assholes from insisting Sanders is a white men's candidate.

Think about it. An old white man from a very white state is saying we should all be like the Scandinavian Countries which are very white. Food for thought.

Time for some more of that good ol' fashioned white man's tradition of GENOCIDE AND THEFT.

[The Great Warrior Rivers]

Think about it. An old white man from a very white state is saying we should all be like the Scandinavian Countries which are very white. Food for thought.

Hey man, Bernie won a hard fought state that's truly representative of America: New Hampshire.

Wow, you like bringing THAT up, dontcha?

Why don't you say it again in case someone else didn't see it??

[Mike the Progressive]

Considering 94% of the state is white....

Minority people vote white peoples' way in majority white states?

Keep in mind, that was 52% of the minority vote, not the total vote. That means white people were excluded.

I understand, but from a socioeconomic perspective, I have a sneaking suspicion the everyday life of an African American in Manchester differs [greatly] from that of an African-American in Ferguson.

[Faustian Fantasies]

52% < 4/7.

Polls aren't closed yet, tiger.

He's still correct. And the earlier poster established we're speaking in the context of exit polls.

[Galloism]

Minority people vote white peoples' way in majority white states?

Keep in mind, that was 52% of the minority vote, not the total vote. That means white people were excluded.

I understand, but from a socioeconomic perspective, I have a sneaking suspicion the everyday life of an African American in Manchester differs [greatly] from that of an African-American in Ferguson.

Fair point.

[Nariterrr]

Just saw the results...

FEEL THE BERN!

[Wallenburg]

52% < 4/7.

Polls aren't closed yet, tiger.

Then why are you making assertions about the quantifiable weight of support at all, "tiger"?