West Virginia, Nebraska presidential primaries: Polls, what to expect, can Trump clinch the nomination?
It's a smaller field of candidates going into Tuesday's presidential primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska.
There's only one Republican – businessman-turned-politician Donald Trump – still in the race. There are two Democrats – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders – though Clinton has a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates.
Nebraska's primary is only for Republicans; Democrats in the state held their caucus March 5 opting to give 15 pledged delegates to Sanders.
There are 36 Republican delegates in the state with the statewide winner receiving all of them.....
.....Both Republicans and Democrats in West Virginia will be going to the polls on May 10. Thirty-four Republican delegates and 37 Democratic ones are up for grabs. Among Democrats, 29 will be divided among the two candidates based on the percentage of votes they receive in the primary. Eight are so-called super delegates who are not bound to any candidate.
Republicans will award 22 at-large delegates, nine delegates based on the winner of the state's three Congressional districts and three Republican National Committee unpledged delegates.
Clinton enters Tuesday's contests with 2,228 delegates, 155 short of the number needed to secure the nomination. Sanders has 1,454 delegates.
Bernie Sanders poised for another primary win in West Virginia — but it’s still almost impossible for him to secure Democratic nomination
.....But, "in terms of the delegate count," that Sanders would exit with after a West Virginia win, "it hardly matters at all," Birdsell added.....
.....Clinton leads Sanders in total delegates 2,228-1,454 and in pledged delegates 1,705-1,415. To secure the nomination, a candidate must win 2,383 total delegates.
Superdelegates, who can support whomever they want (and who overwhelmingly back Clinton), would only be likely to switch their allegiance to Sanders if he came within striking distance of that magic number.
But do that, Sanders would need to win about 88% of the remaining pledged delegates - an impossible feat.....
As White House dreams fade, Sanders seeks West Virginia win
.....Clinton is just 155 delegates short of the 2,383 she needs to secure the nomination. To win them, she needs just 17 percent of the delegates at stake in the remaining contests.
That means she could lose all the states left to vote by a landslide and still emerge as the nominee.....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-white-house-dreams-fade-sanders-seeks-west-virginia-win/ar-BBsSDPE?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp
Oh my.
Too bad for the Bernie bullies.
Heard on the news today that Bernie got a slight lead in the latest local poll. I'm sure hillary is going to lose big in the coal field counties. She will probably carry Kanawha, Putnam, Cabell and Wayne counties. Those are the biggies. Northern WV is a tossup. Don't matter none though. WV is eat up with establishment dems. She will come out ahead here no matter what. Something similar happened when she ran against obumbles. She carried the state massively and the establishment dems from the Gov (Manchin at the time) on down gave it all to obumbles.
Just another corrupt election in WV. We vote early and often here. The dead vote even more.
I see Methuselah carried Wheeling.
Isn't that considered the most corrupt part of West Virginia?
Me? I voted for Bernie. I want the bernie to take it to the convention and make hillary's life miserable and make her go farther left than she wants. Plus bernie's inevitable defeat to hillary will cause half the bernie bots at the Dump to jump off tall structures without a parachute.
The New York Times has declared Methuselah won West Virginia.
her 39.6%
him 49.7%
with 25% of the votes now in.
But I thought the old coot was going to landslide her by a lot, not a mere ten percent.
The Bernie bullies told us he would.
It looks as if Trump carried Nebraska by 60%--less than the 75% over in West Virginia--but you know, Cruz could've carried Nebraska if he hadn't gotten silly on us.
Never in my life have I seen so many truly good candidates crash down in flames due simply to their own sheer stupidity. It's been an incredible year.
Okay, so Methuselah won West Virginia, but not by any margin promised us by the Bernie bullies.
It's been pouring rain here since about suppertime, and the storms are interfering with internet connections, so I'm calling it a night.
Good night, Manny, with visions of Messalina Agrippina can-canning in your dreams.
Fight on Comrades,victory can still be had! :fuelfire:
WV: Hillary loses 2/3 of support from 2008
.....According to data obtained at the polls yesterday, 33% of Democrats say they will vote for Donald Trump in November. Only 44% of Dems say they’ll vote Clinton. Twenty-one percent say they’ll support neither.....
Okay, according to the New York Times this morning, it's:
Messalina Agrippina with 2,239 delegates
Methuselah with 1,469 delegates
There's still 1,065 to be selected and/or superdelegates who haven't yet committed.
It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democrat nomination.
Up next week:
Kentucky, 61 delegates
Oregon, 74 delegates
It's reasonable to assume that Messalina Agrippina's going to win the first state, the old sourasses sourpuss the second state.
But at any rate, the lady's already won; she could lose every single state from here on out, but merely by standing there and breathing, she's going to get all that she needs.
This is how one wins; by paying attention to the rules.
Too bad the Bernie bullies never understood that.
I wouldn't be so sure about the bolded, Coach. Kentucky is a big coal-mining state, and we saw what happened in West Virginia with coal miners. They hate her. If she wins, it'll be because turnout in the cities is high. Probably not going to happen.
I wouldn't be so sure about the bolded, Coach. Kentucky is a big coal-mining state, and we saw what happened in West Virginia with coal miners. They hate her. If she wins, it'll be because turnout in the cities is high. Probably not going to happen.
Hillary has been campaigning in KY, but not taking questions. She wants to avoid coal or any mentions of it.The circus showed up at my Alma mater last week, 30 jobs were eliminated. They keep up like this and people will think democrats don't want them to work
Hillary has been campaigning in KY, but not taking questions. She wants to avoid coal or any mentions of it.
I've nadined all over the place, trying to find polls relevant to Kentucky.
The only one I found had Messalina Agrippina leading Methuselah 56-12%.....
.....but that was from the third week of June.....2015.
One quite reasonably assumes it's nothing like that now.
A Public Policy Polling survey from March shows Hilary Clinton has more support in Kentucky than Bernie Sanders; 501 likely Democratic primary voters took the survey. Of those, 43 percent said they'd support Clinton in the primary, 38 percent said they'd vote for Sanders and 19 percent said they were unsure.http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/31895151/kentuckys-democratic-primary-has-greater-impact-this-year