Correction: Hillary Clinton wins Washington
After Nebraska, a second state has held both Democratic caucuses and a Democratic primary for president. The postmark deadline for Washington’s vote-by-mail primary was yesterday. Though not all votes have been received, the Associated Press, one of the few news organizations covering the contest, has already called the race for Hillary Clinton. According to current numbers, Hillary Clinton has 380,760 votes and Bernie Sanders has 338,283, or 52.95% to 47.05% for Hillary. This stands in contrast to the caucuses on March 26, when Sanders won 72.9% to 27.1%, in terms of legislative district convention delegates (19,159 to 7,140), the only figures released by the party. Since estimated turnout for the caucuses was 230,000, a third of the primary turnout, we can now definitively say that Hillary has won the popular vote in Washington. That leaves the current map so:
The pattern in Washington is exactly like Nebraska. In both cases, Bernie won the caucuses by a large margin, and got the bulk of the delegates. In both cases, most news organizations covered only the caucuses, so Bernie’s win got all of the coverage. In both cases, the turnout was much higher for the primary, as we would expect. And in both cases, Hillary won the primary.
And it happens that Washington accounted for almost all of Bernie Sanders’ “missing” caucus votes, the ones not included in popular-vote totals because state Democratic Parties have not reported an actual popular-vote breakdown. When the final votes are in for Washington, we’ll be able to erase Bernie’s margin adjustment entirely.
— O.T. Ford
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