Sen. Bernie Sanders is projected to defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Alaska caucus Saturday. His victory was called by CNN and AP around 5:20 p.m EST.
The race is the first called of the three Democratic caucuses being held Saturday, where Sanders is hoping to sweep Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Sanders’ wife Jane traveled to Alaska to stump for her husband last week. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton recorded robocalls for Clinton’s campaign in the state.
With only 16 proportionally-allotted delegates were up for grabs in the Alaska caucus, Sanders is still trailing Clinton significantly in the delegate count.
With 38% of the precincts in Bernie has 181 votes to Hillary’s 49. Those Alaska caucuses must have been very quiet affairs. It looks like an average of about 15 people showed up in each precinct.
The bad news for Bernie is that there is only one more state caucus on the Democratic calendar: Wyoming. He’s done very well in the caucuses. He’ll have won ten out of twelve of them after today (and probably take Wyoming as well). He just doesn’t do very well in primaries. He’s lost in 16 of the 20 states that have had primaries so far, including ten of the eleven largest states that have voted.
He’s currently way behind in the polls in both New York and Pennsylvania so I would imagine that he’ll have a very good time over the next two weeks and then get destroyed at the end of April.
Small, but not that small – notice the disclaimer:
Note: The votes counts above represent the 539 state convention delegates won by each presidential candidate:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alaska-democratic-presidential-caucus-2016
Same as with caucuses, the “votes” shown are state-level delegates won, not raw number of votes, which would be much higher. This seems to get at least one commenter with each caucus, and it’s an easy mistake to make, since these numbers are often reported in the same exact format as the raw votes in states that have primaries rather than caucuses.
How many Clinton victories were states that no Democrat will win this fall?
How many states has Bernie won in that he will win in this fall?
Zero…because Bernie isn’t going to be on any ballots this fall.
Get over it. And soon.
Well, what about Alaska, Martin?