Here’s a thread to discuss the election returns.
Nevada turned out to be close. I wasn’t sure if it really would be, or who would win. Seems like the polls were accurate. I wouldn’t argue that it’s in any way fair, but this was probably Sanders’s last chance to kick in the door of the Establishment and actually go to the convention with enough delegates to win. At best, now, he might slog it out and pile up about half the delegates. That won’t be enough, but his momentum is shot and it won’t get better after South Carolina. In fact, in his concession speech he said, “It’s on to Super Tuesday,” which was basically a concession that no one should look for any salvation out of South Carolina.
Based on exit polls, I think I did a good job with South Carolina. I thought Trump had lost a lot of his lead, but probably not enough to lose. Well, maybe he did lose, but no one is going to call it based on the exit polls alone. They’re saying that Cruz, Rubio and Trump are all in the top cluster and that Kasich, Bush and Carson are grouped much further down in a second cluster.
Can’t wait to see what actually happened.
Update [2016-2-20 20:24:52 by BooMan]: Trump wins South Carolina, apparently with about a third of the vote. So, no disappointment there.
