The Final Count

[Chichiri]

Hillary won 2,218 pledged delegates. Sanders won 1,833.

Hillary won by 385 pledged delegates.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Obama won by just 103 and did not get an outright majority.

Hillary won this one fair and square.

Sorry Bernie, you lost. Maybe you should have not pulled of of SC/FL/TX?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. ....

[BobbyDrake]

2. The new modern Democratic coalition has spoken: "Sorry, dudebros!"

"This is OUR party now."

If the "white working class" wants to continue to pretend they are the apex of American culture, they can do it without the Democratic Party. Here is for diversity in all its flavors, a coalition of people who have suffered under systems that favored Bernie's most-cherished constituency in the past. We will not return to some colorblind New Deal where systemic racism restricts who benefits. We will not return to back-alley abortions and second-class status. We will not return to the closet.

We own a major political party now. Deal with it; haters to the left!

[Walk away]

3. Is that all????

[spooky3]

4. Did they finish counting the ballots in CA?

[BlueMTexpat]

6. CA has until July 8 to certify

the results.

As of today, June 16 at 9:55 am, Hillary was still WAY ahead: 2,409,154 to 1,935,598. The winning percentage margin has shrunk by a couple of percentage points. But Hillary is still winning. http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/party/democratic/

Anyone who is hanging their hopes on CA's uncounted votes for a Bernie win needs to remember the following:

- there are several candidates for President in several political parties (six different parties are listed in the Secretary of State's records) and ALL candidates are continuing to receive votes: all you have to do is to check the url above on a daily basis to see this as the vote counts change from one day to the next
- some votes may not be deemed to be legally valid (signatures don't match records or no signatures as required, etc.) and thus cannot be counted
- for every Bernie voter whose vote hasn't yet been counted, there is at least one Hillary voter in the same situation
- the county reporting status so far shows that NO county has completed its count, i.e., no county has "CCC" (county canvass complete) status http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/status/

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. She beat his azz by nearly 400 pledged delegates & 4 million popular votes, yet he gets to decide...

his terms of surrender? Since when does the loser dictate terms to the party, the nominee, or the DNC?

[eastwestdem]

8. I hope he stays in until he has no leverage at all. nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. He can't concede because the day after, nobody will care that he ever ran. He's become addicted....

to being the center of attention & part of the news cycle, but that's changing since CA, so he has to pull stunts like the one he's doing tonight. I think it's sad that he has to be dragged offstage, kicking & screaming.

[AgadorSparticus]

12. It is disappointing to witness....

[Number23]

10. bravenak called it a ransom and that's exactly what it is. This was not a close race. This was an

epic ass whipping of painful and gargantuan proportions. And the fact that he can look at the carnage of his campaign and somehow think he's in a position to demand ANYTHING except a stick of gum is literally the most incredible freaking thing I've ever seen.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. "Epic" indeed. As has been pointed out, repeatedly, the race between HRC & PBO came down to a....

difference of about 50k votes, and 126 pledged delegates. BS ain't even in the ballpark. I know Dems feel like they need to "unite" with these people, but trying to come up with face-saving ways for BS to get the hell off the stage, is a bridge too far AFAIC.

As the Washington Post put it, 'BS you ain't got to go home, but you gotta raise the hell up outta here' (paraphrasing). There's actual work to be done, we're facing the very real possibility that a walking, talking, orange madman might be given the nuclear code.

[Cha]

7. Thank you, Chi!