With Klobuchar, Buttigieg, and Steyer dropping out of the democratic primary over the last few days this day is going to be very interesting. Many have already voted by mail so those three will get many votes that wouldn't have come their way had they dropped out earlier. Yet many have not voted and those votes will go to the four main candidates left. Sanders, Biden, Warren and Bloomberg. I don't count Gabbard as a major candidate. Two centrists versus two progressives. How the vote splits down those two lines will go a long way in determining who our eventual candidate against trump will be.
Super Tuesday this year has two very large states in Texas and California. Nearly 70 million citizens populate just those two states. Which in well more than the 62 million votes trump received in 2016. Now all those citizens are not eligible to vote but a large segment of them are. Close to 16 million in California and 12 million in Texas. Suffice it to say there is a lot at stake today with 12 other states voting as well as all Democrats abroad. More than a third of the pledged delegates are up for the taking and by the end of the day we should have an idea as to who our two front runners are and which two should consider dropping out after today.
It seems to me that unless there is a major shift in how the voting goes today, that Bloomberg and Warren will be left with the hard decision to suspend their campaigns and get behind their ideological candidates who are left, Biden and Sanders. Yet I am not predicting here just making an observation based upon what has already occurred. However it all shakes out the biggest moment for me will of course be the turnout. I am measuring the accuracy of our blue wave and so far the indicators are still positive for a massive blue wave possibility. Which is what we Democrats need if we are going to purge our national and state governments of trumps and his enablers.
Super Tuesday this year has two very large states in Texas and California. Nearly 70 million citizens populate just those two states. Which in well more than the 62 million votes trump received in 2016. Now all those citizens are not eligible to vote but a large segment of them are. Close to 16 million in California and 12 million in Texas. Suffice it to say there is a lot at stake today with 12 other states voting as well as all Democrats abroad. More than a third of the pledged delegates are up for the taking and by the end of the day we should have an idea as to who our two front runners are and which two should consider dropping out after today.
It seems to me that unless there is a major shift in how the voting goes today, that Bloomberg and Warren will be left with the hard decision to suspend their campaigns and get behind their ideological candidates who are left, Biden and Sanders. Yet I am not predicting here just making an observation based upon what has already occurred. However it all shakes out the biggest moment for me will of course be the turnout. I am measuring the accuracy of our blue wave and so far the indicators are still positive for a massive blue wave possibility. Which is what we Democrats need if we are going to purge our national and state governments of trumps and his enablers.
No comments:
Post a Comment