What Went Down In Michigan, Washington And Other Democratic Primaries

Remember when we were all so starved for election results that we lived and died by every special election? Well, there was a special election for a New Hampshire state House seat tonight, and the Democratic candidate won 51 percent to 49 percent in a seat that Trump carried 53 percent to 43 percent.

There’s a persistent gender gap in Biden’s and Sanders’s support, according to preliminary exit polls; in both Mississippi and Missouri, Biden is doing better among women while Sanders is doing better among men. (Michigan, where only day-of voters were sampled in the exit poll, exhibits the same trend.)

I was really struck by something that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at Sanders’s rally in Ann Arbor on Sunday night: “In order for us to win, we have to grow. We must be inclusive, we must bring more people into this movement. We must shed the unnecessary clothes of cynicism and exclusion and we must turn towards an embracing posture where all people are welcome.” I wonder if the fundamental anti-establishment strain of Sanders’s candidacy made a lot of Democrats feel left out or antagonized. And I don’t know what Sanders could have done to change or fix that. It was kind of in the DNA of his campaign.