looks like Biden wins SC primary convincingly

Biden 55%
Sanders 14%
Steyer 12%
Buttigieg 7%
Warren 7%
Klobuchar 3%

(Bloomberg not on the SC ticket)

https://hotair.com/archives/ja...primary-open-thread/

Candidates must win 15 percent of South Carolina votes to get any of the 54 delegates.

PS - I saw other "results" where Sanders got 16% of the vote

At this point Politico sez there's only 30% of the precincts in. I'm willing to believe that there's a real trend going for Biden to win the SC Donkeys big, but the more interesting (IMHO) question is where everybody else stands after all the votes are counted.

The first reason is because I think Biden has to win by a sizeable margin to have a chance that South Carolina will help boost his Super Tuesday results. The second reason is that I suspect this is where people begin thinking about dropping out, which will essentially recast the whole race between Sanders and whoever else is up front. The third reason is that Super Tuesday will finally tell us exactly what cards Bloomberg has in his hand. I don't think it's possible know whether Uncah Joe stays alive through the next set of primaries (the week after Super Tuesday) until then.

Warren is done. The only thing that will keep her in past Monday is ego and arrogance, and Buttplug can't be far behind. After next Tuesday it's a three-man race.

59% in SC primary

Biden 50%
Sanders 19%
Steyer 12%
Buttigeig 8%
Warren 7%

https://www.cnn.com/election/2...lina?xid=ec_crm_sc_d

Biden? Don't the people in South Carolina know that he's running for US Senate and not for the Presidency? Silly voters.

68% in and holding. I'd love to see Sanders drop below the 15% needed to pick up delegates, though - a bitter, protracted fight among the donkeys can only be good for the country.

ETA: Cable news chatter (for what it's worth) is that Biden's online donations are doing well and rich donors may just open their pockets for Biden again. If true, that indicates two things - one, Biden's growing a new pair of legs, two, the fatcat donors who agreed to stay out of the primary at Bloomberg's behest and to Biden's distress may wind up reassessing that commitment in the very near term.

We now are looking at a brokered convention. That is a shit storm that will be a lot of fun to watch.

Jim

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Originally posted by sdy:
59% in SC primary

Biden 50%
Sanders 19%
Steyer 12%
Buttigeig 8%
Warren 7%

https://www.cnn.com/election/2...lina?xid=ec_crm_sc_d

Let's look at this from a different perspective. If they hold, do these results tell us anything of value as it relates to this election? I fine it concerning that Sanders and Steyer are pulling down the votes they are. But do these results really prove Slow Joe is a viable candidate?

Steyer spent 18 million in SC ads.

In South Carolina, where Steyer hedged his bets on a strong performance due to his inroads in the black community, he spent more than anyone had ever seen. According to FEC filings, in addition to millions on ads, Steyer also directed large amounts of money to black organizations and toward hiring influential black politicians. Steyer won the support of black validators in the state including Johnnie Cordero, chair of the Democratic Black Caucus, and Gilda Cobb-Hunter, one of the most influential black lawmakers in the state who has served in its legislature for nearly 30 years.

https://www.politico.com/news/...-of-2020-race-118370

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But do these results really prove Slow Joe is a viable candidate?

Sort of. Look at it another way: it gives him life and he may get a bounce for Super Tuesday which is only 3 days away. He lives to fight another day. It will help enormously with fundraising which he desperately needs.
I'm glad. I don't want Biden out. I don't want it to narrow to Bloomberg as the only non-Sanders viable candidate.

FWIW, Steyer formally dropped out of the race just a little while ago.

As for Joe, well, at this stage of the game "not dead" is close enough to "viable" to be an acceptable substitute. I think he's gotta argue to potential donors that crowded primaries tend to have a lot of stops, starts and accidents but that this primary is basically unsettled. After all, Bernie's no longer on an unbroken string of solid victories and no one else has taken the lead. If the race is unsettled then anyone can win, and if anyone can win then a relatively big dog like Biden is more likely to win than others.

I wonder how much of the Biden vote totals came as votes against Sanders?

Well, the Establishment Dems have banging the alarm gong pretty steadily for the past few days and telling anyone who'd listen that Bernie would be a disaster. Then again, Biden's tended to poll well there. Maybe there was just an aggressive get-out-the-vote effort in more pro-Biden areas?

Incidentally, has anyone else been watching the delegate totals? Biden started with 15, picked up at least 34 tonight (with 93% of precincts reporting), and is now within seven delegates of being even with Bernie at 49-56. Buttigieg's back in the weeds with 26.

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Originally posted by sdy:
looks like Biden wins SC primary convincingly

They've reanimated the corpse.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
68% in and holding. I'd love to see Sanders drop below the 15% needed to pick up delegates, though - a bitter, protracted fight among the donkeys can only be good for the country.

I can’t decide whether a bitter fight to the end, Bernie being far ahead and still getting horked by the DNC, or Bernie being so far ahead they give up and let him have the nomination causing all moderate Dims and independents to either stay home or vote for PDJT would be a better scenario, but they all sound entertaining.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by sdy:
looks like Biden wins SC primary convincingly

They've reanimated the corpse.

Boy oh boy was Joe on his mojo.
That 12-yard dash - he was huffin and puffin but so excited.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Boy oh boy was Joe on his mojo.
That 12-yard dash - he was huffin and puffin but so excited.

I am sorry I missed that. I know it would have been entertaining.



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Biden's win just amplifies the dems problems, they're divided on what they want and they think sleepy joe is a moderate.

His win tells you what black dems won't vote for: a grumpy elderly Jewish socialist/commie, a harpy serial liar faux native woman, and a gay Alfred E Newman. Scary is they will vote for a senile kid toucher who isn't sure where is, possibly because he was aligned with the bamster. Or they just voted for him because the rest of the candidates were so bad. If I were a dim, I'd probably have to vote for sleepy joe, since he's not a devout commie, and actually has a chance to be nominated.

I'm a little surprised at his ability to ride the bamsters coattails regarding the black vote. That's big. Luckily neither Bernie, sleepy joe, or doomburg will generate voter turnout.

Voter turnout in S. Carolina Saturday rivaled the 2008 turnout, which was very high. Don’t become complacent here!