Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Super Tuesday's Primary Results

Here are the states by winner. first, the Republican primaries:

Donald "Joe Millionaire" Trump: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, and Vermont.
Ted Cruz: Alaska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Marco Rubio: Minnesota.

On the Democratic side:

Hillary Goldman Clinton: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Bernie Sanders: Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. 
Now to the meat: The delegate count so far. On the Republican side, 1,237 delegates are needed to win. Here are the numbers (from RealClearPolitics):

Trump: 285
Cruz: 161
Rubio: 87
Kasich: 25
Carson: 8
On the Democratic side (also from RealClearPolitics), 2,382 delegates are needed to win. Here is the count without the superdelegates:

Clinton: 543
Sanders: 349
Speaking of superdelegates, why does the "Democratic" Party have the least democratic system? Look at the count with the superdelegates:

Clinton: 1000
Sanders: 371
In other news, this video of Chris Christie is running around the internet. This was during Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump. Watch Christie's expression during Trump's speech (video from the Daily Mail):


Buyer's remorse? Some people are calling it a "hostage video".

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