Bernie Sanders was projected to win the Nebraska caucuses Saturday night, MSNBC and the Associated Press are reporting.
Sanders’s win comes on the heels of victories in Kansas today and Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and his home state of Vermont on Super Tuesday.
With no publicized polling and a fairly new caucus system, there was no clear frontrunner in the state going into caucus day, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
“Discussion: X Projected to Win Nebraska Caucuses”
Another banner TPM headline.
Pathetically lame TPM. Really lame.
Better a generic title than the “Dewey Defeats Truman” title on the Kansas thread, or the Minnesota one the other day.
In any event, Josh just gave an explanation (such as it is) here:
Ooops.
Of note: the combined populations of Kansas and Nebraska are only slightly more than the population of Louisiana alone. It look as though Bernie will take Kansas and Nebraska by about 10-20% whereas Hillary will take Louisiana by about 40-50%. Since all three state are about equally red I would say that Hillary is the overall winner tonight.
Also, it appears likely that Hillary has ceded most of the small caucus states to Bernie while concentrating, instead, on the larger primary states. This is a good strategy for both candidates really. Bernie wants to continue to pick off a few states here and there in order to stay relevant. Hillary, on the other hand, probably sees these caucus states as being way too much work for their delegate yield.
She had to put out a lot of resources to fight for, effectively, a tie in Iowa. Iowa was important to her because it set the narrative for the primary season. None of these other caucus states would be worth that much effort for her, though, so I can see why she would willingly hand them to Bernie.
I agree with that assessment.
OTOH, as a Bernie supporter, I’d say the issues he’s raising are relevant whether or not he’s winning the delegate count. He needs to stay in to the end and I think he will. If the MSM could get over its fixation with Drumpf and his penis size, maybe Bernie’s message would get through now and then.