No, Ohio’s being called for Clinton too.
Frankly, Kasich winning Ohio is probably an overall good for Trump. It’s guaranteed none of his voters would have gone to Trump in future primaries. Just as well he’s staying in to bleed off Cruz.
FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten:
Yeah, with results like that plus her lead among black voters in the large cities, Sanders never had a chance. From what we’re seeing the Ohio voters are older than in Michigan, and largely more establishment minded. Ohio, unlike Michigan, isn’t considered a slave to the automobile industry and is probably less energized by anti-trade rhetoric.
He’s not wasting his time at all so long as campaigning still gives him a national podium to spread his message.
Kasich takes Ohio.
At this point, the most entertaining part of the rest of this presidential season will be seeing how the GOP implodes and divides itself now that they have Trump as their nominee.
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Should have refreshed my page.
Yeah, Clinton is clapping her hands in delight. She’s just about put Sanders away, and now the Republicans are showing every sign of continuing their circular firing squad.
Trump is sure beating that 30-35% ceiling he supposedly had.
With not even a fig leaf of a chance at being the nominee, I’m guessing that podium is going to shrink. He can go on giving speeches, but I expect the tone (and volume) of coverage he’s been getting is going to change after the night.
Sanders’ win in Michigan was only noteworthy in the first place because the polls had called it so differently.
It may have represented a certain amount of statement voting, assuming that Clinton was going to win, and relative complacency by the less extreme left of the party. My WAG is that turnout was up today and that that helped Clinton … moderates saw the damage that a prolonged but ultimately doomed Sanders campaign could do to Clinton, and thus the boon it would be to Trump, and came out to declare loud and clear that they want the healing phase to start now.
IOW, your WAG is that everyone thought like you do. Lol.
Rubio’s speech sounded like he was running for High Priest instead of President.
Yea, this Primary season seems to be engineered to give Kasich just barely enough hope to hold on and screw up Cruz’s chances.
Trump may have lost Ohio’s 66 delegates but he’s on track to win a hefty majority of Illinois’ 69 delegates.
In his mind, High Christian Priest is part of the president’s duties.
I like Hillary and Bernie, but it’s time for Bernie to read the tea leaves and go back to the Senate.
Good for Kasich, but where else does he win? California? New Jersey? Maybe Christie’s endorsement could prove toxic for Trump in NJ.
Are there any other States where he’s the Governor? That seems to be what all his wins so far have in common.
It seems to me that California might be fertile ground for Kasich. Not terribly evangelical, perhaps less conservative than other states. Some of the eastern states like DE, MD, PA could also be good ground for him. He has no chance to catch Trump, but he and Cruz can and perhaps probably will deny Trump a first ballot convention win.
Carnal K,
More informed by the Vox article linked to on another thread that low turnout, surprisingly, helps Sanders, and higher turnout Clinton. But, yes I tend to think that I am not so special: if I am thinking a particular way odds are it is not a brilliant inspiration but something that many other more centrist Democrats are thinking as well. And there are a lot of us. If presuming I am fairly ordinary and common strikes you as funny, well I don’t know what to say.
Another hypothesis is that those same more moderate Democrats were turned off by the alleged connection of Sanders supporters with the protest in Chicago. That one does not resonate with me, but could be.
Plus, doesn’t he have Schwarzenegger out stumping for him?