What Went Down In Michigan, Washington And Other Democratic Primaries

For a quick overview of what’s at stake in today’s primaries, particularly for Sanders, Nathaniel Rakich recorded this earlier today:

You can’t project winners in elections based on crowd size at rallies, as we’ve discussed many times on this website. But having big, well-attended rallies is an opportunity to spur positive earned media coverage. So canceling rallies eliminates those opportunities. It also may create more of a sense among the electorate that what’s happening is not normal, and that sentiment can have other, cascading effects.

Speaking of rally cancellations, we were chattering about that a bit earlier today. How much would it matter if the campaigns — including Trump — had to cancel their rallies? Does it change the dynamics of an election a lot? Or not really?