Much is said around here about how popular Bernie Sanders is and his oft repeated claim of ‘when turnout is high, he wins by big margins’. The problem is, that doesn’t fit reality. Look at Washington State, for example. In the Democratic Caucus, which awarded Sanders his largest net block of pledged delegates so far over Clinton (41 per 538). The Democratic caucus was held on March 26th, and 26.299 Washington State caucus goers voted 72.7 % in favor of Sanders, 19,159 of them. That was the binding contest for pledged delegates.
Enter a real democratic contest in May, and (ahem) larger number of Washingtonians participated: 706,861 of them, in fact.
Here are those results:
So less than 20,000 Washingtonians gave Sanders his largest net gain in pledged delegates so far over Clinton, but she actually won the popular vote by 5.2% more when over 706,000 Washingtonians voted.
Clinton ‘won’ the popular vote in the actual voting primary by more than double the number of caucus goers who gave Sanders his delegates.
So please, keep telling us how the process has been ‘unfair’ to Sanders, and how his numbers show he really is a ‘better’ person to be the nominee.
Reality is on hold on line 2 for those of you who still have that dimensional concept.