What Went Down In Michigan, Washington And Other Democratic Primaries

Here is a sentiment from Klobuchar’s communications director that I think we’ll be seeing quite a bit over the next couple of days as people conduct post-mortem comparisons of 2016 and 2020. Of course, the party was already leaning left, but Sanders as THE (male) figure of import on the leftest part of the spectrum in the Democratic ecosystem was always a bit tangled up with gender. Especially in the wake of Warren — a (female) figure of import on the leftest part of the spectrum — dropping out, a lot of people are going to be asking the question of why Sanders, not Warren, was seen as the big change figure.

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.)