Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) easily won the Maine caucuses, according to projections from the Associated Press and MSNBC. With 80 percent of districts reporting, Sanders was leading with 64.2 percent of the vote compared to 35.6 percent for Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont senator’s campaign expected to win the state, where he held a large rally the day after securing wins in Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota on Super Tuesday.
Pine Tree State voters waited in hours-long lines on Sunday to caucus in the Democratic race. Maine Democratic Party chairman Phil Bartlett told the Portland Press Herald that the turnout was “extraordinary,” and the city of Portland was required to change the caucus rules to allow all voters to participate. Voters waiting on snaking lines were allowed to fill out paper ballots rather than participate in the traditional, town hall style caucus.
Awesome. I can’t wait to see the vote totals, to see how many more Dem’s showed up vs. the Republican caucus. I am a supporter of both Bernie and Hillary… and hope we can keep momentum going to counter the craziness that is sure to come out of Cleveland. Well done Bernie!
Interesting to watch the candidates of the different parties. While Sanders and Clinton have differences and disagreements, they have remained relatively civil. Any outliers have been buried under the non-stop “my dick is bigger than yours” fights on the other side of the aisle.
He needed to break 70% to net a single pledged delegate this weekend. He didn’t. H+201
So this one is mostly on target for both candidates? Bernie may be one or two delegates above the mark.
Great turnout. Good job Democrats!
Will MSNBC show the victory speech? Not likely.They’ll be waiting, breathlessly speculating on whether Drumpf will be coming out soon with some diarrheic utterance.
Anyway, congrats Bernie.