Well, that tells enough about my forecasting abilties. In my previous diary I predicted a decent Clinton victory in the high single digits and a gracious exit of Hillary afterwards.
But this race continues to surprise us all. Hillary's win was actually a high single digit win (9.4 %), but it was all over the media as a solid double digit 10 % win (55 % for Hillary and 45 % for Barack). A bit of luck in the rounding of the results and psychology does the rest.
Although her win didn't even dent the delegate margin (a net gain of max 12 delegates), the record turnout helped to keep Hillary's hope alive to win the cumulative popular vote. In the real world she's still a solid 500.000 votes behind, but with some creative math Hillary can proudly announce that she has received more votes than Barack.
All in all enough to keep the campaign train moving.
So now it's up to Hillary to prove that like Barack she is capable of eating away a sizable margin. In North Carolina the polls are predicting a big victory for Barack and in Indiana the starting point is about equal. So we're in for two exiting weeks.
Let's hope the amount of mudslinging will be limited and both candidates will in a positive way try to motivate their supporters to come out and vote for them.
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