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It isn't assured, California has almost 500 delegates, that's almost twice as big as Clinton's pledged lead.
Clinton's lead is likely, but surely not guaranteed.
Ignoring the fact that Clinton is +9 in the California polling aggregate right now, what pathway to victory do you actually see for Bernie?
Here's a delegate calculator for this race: The Race to 2026 Delegates
Acknowledging that she's about to again have a very good Tuesday, I've taken her edge off by only giving her 51% victories in the four primaries she's clearly going to win (which will understate her delegate pickup, since she's clearly going to do significantly better than that in Maryland at least) and I've given Sanders a 55-45 win in Rhode Island. In every contest after that, I've given Sanders a landslide 60-40 victory. She still wins by 41.
If I put in her current pollster average in Maryland (59.3%) and Pennsylvania (53.5%), she wins by 67. He would need to clear 67-33 in California (not to mention achieve the uninterrupted stream of 20-point wins I already mentioned) to win.