Headline: Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb
3rd Paragraph: Mrs. Clinton has 502 delegates to Mr. Sanders’s 70; 2,383 are needed to win the nomination.
10th Paragraph: A New York Times analysis found that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders are tied in the pledged delegate count, at 51 each.
With only 3 states having voted in the Democratic Presidential Primary the New York Times has printed an article that declares the Sanders campaign doomed. The article mistakenly adds the superdelegates currently endorsing Hillary Clinton to the present delegate count to paint a picture of insurmountable odds for Bernie Sanders.
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The article states;
“She could effectively end the race in less than two weeks’ time on Super Tuesday,” said David Wasserman, a top analyst for The Cook Political Report, who has been closely tracking the delegate race.
Of course, politics is unpredictable, as this cycle’s presidential campaign has demonstrated. Mrs. Clinton will face questions about her candidacy, including the outcome of an F.B.I. investigation into the use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. And Mr. Sanders has shown an ability to create grass-roots excitement in surprising places.
Still, while Mrs. Clinton is far from reaching 2,383 delegates, she is poised to create the sort of mathematical quandary for Mr. Sanders that she faced in 2008. That winter, Barack Obama used an 11-state winning streak to establish a lead of 100 delegates that Mrs. Clinton was never able to surmount. While a similar streak is unlikely this year, advisers to Mr. Sanders concede that Mrs. Clinton could generate a significant delegate lead now that she has momentum from her Nevada win. But they say they are not out of the running.
“The Clintons can get a delegate lead quicker than we can, and they have a way to gut out the delegate fight,” said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Mr. Sanders. “We have to turn victories in state after state into big momentum that can change the numbers.”
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The article uses ifs and coulds to make it seem that the election is all but over to paint yet another inevitability scenario for Clinton.
Sanders may indeed be behind in delegates after Super Tuesday but printing an article whose sole purpose is to call those elections before they have even taken place is very annoying, let alone basically calling the election.
Please read the comments by readers below the article. The New York Times gets a mouthful for this article.
The New York Times editorial board has endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President.
