AS IF weary of a primary tussle in which the outcome has long been obvious, Democratic voters knocked it on the head on June 7th. Bernie Sanders, whose refusal to admit defeat defies electoral mathematics, hoped to win at least four of the last six states up for grabs, including the biggest, California. But Hillary Clinton whupped him; she won the Golden State by a 13-point margin, also New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.
In the process, the former secretary of state secured a big majority of the 4,765 delegates who will attend the Democrats’ National Convention in July. That makes her the prospective nominee, the first woman to hold the role for either big party and, given how spectacularly ill-chosen her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, seems, the favourite to be America’s next president. For a politician whose woodenness as a campaigner has been as conspicuous as her toughness, and for the 15.5m Democrats who have voted for her, it is an impressive achievement.
Even before these last primaries (only Washington, DC, on June 14th, is still to vote) the Associated Press reckoned Mrs Clinton had the 2,383 delegates required for...Continue reading
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