What Went Down In The April 26 Primary Elections

We thought Maryland would be among Clinton’s best states outside the South. Why? The state has wealthy white voters and a lot of black voters. Right now, Clinton is winning black voters by 48 percentage points and winning those making more than $200,000 by 52 percentage points.

Exit polls are showing Clinton doing much better than usual with white voters, a group Sanders typically wins. In Maryland, Clinton beat Sanders among whites by 15 points, which ABC News points out is her best performance with the group in a non-Southern state.

In an article earlier this month, I asked if DeRay Mckesson could turn his 330,000 Twitter followers into 20,000 votes in the Baltimore Democratic mayoral primary. So far, it looks like he hasn’t. The Black Lives Matter activist, who entered the race just before the deadline and got less than 1 percent of support in a pair of Baltimore Sun polls, has just 1.6 percent of the vote — 482 votes in total — in early counts. State Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh leads with 44.5 percent of the vote, ahead of former Mayor Sheila Dixon, at 33.2 percent. More than 30,000 votes have been counted — about 40 percent of the total votes in the previous Democratic mayoral primary, in 2011.