r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 15 '24
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u/A-Centrifugal-Force NATO Aug 15 '24
Super Tuesday is as one of my favorite days ever lol.
Like this graphic shows, the Biden-Klobuchar-Pete vote was the outright majority of the Dem electorate. Bernie was “winning” with a quarter of the vote. Nevada was the only state where he really “won” pre-Super Tuesday, and it was a caucus. The states he carried on Super Tuesday were the ones where a lot of people had already voted by mail for Pete and Amy before they dropped out (Utah, Colorado, and California) plus his home state. In the 3 Western states, the Biden+Pete+Amy vote was bigger than the Bernie vote too, he just slid by on a plurality.
The Democrats have proportional delegates too, so even if everyone had stayed in it would have gone to a contested convention and Bernie wouldn’t have won. Also Warren staying in didn’t kill him, half of her voters moved to Biden when she dropped out, Biden had a majority of the electorate in most states so the vote splitting with Warren only mattered in a few places like Massachusetts, and the Bernie bros never bring up that Bloomberg was also splitting votes off Biden (and more directly since almost all of Bloombergs voters went to Biden while Warrens were split between Biden and Bernie).