What Went Down In Michigan, Washington And Other Democratic Primaries

The Sanders promise to turn out the youth vote is such an interesting one. It was always going to be a challenge, but I think it was great PR for the campaign; the political revolution starting with young voters. But, of course, young voters have historically been super hard to turn out. It’s sort of trying to recapture the Obama wave, I think, of which a lot of Democratic voters have fond recollections.

Our friends at Edison Research have 89 percent of precincts reporting in Kalamazoo County in western Michigan, and they show basically a tied race there between Biden and Sanders at 48 percent apiece. This is bad news for Sanders — he beat Clinton 61 percent to 38 percent in Kalamazoo four years ago.

With 10 percent of Michigan’s Election Day precincts reporting, Biden has 52 percent and Sanders has 42 percent of the vote. More importantly, Sanders is underperforming his 2016 performance almost everywhere. However, I’m not sure these results include any early or absentee votes, which could be as much as 40 percent of total turnout.