U.S. Society is once again starting to shift and it has only taken less than 100 years. In 1920 women were awarded the right to vote and that life-changing event has culminated in Hillary Clinton on the precipice of becoming the first Women in American to win the nomination of a major political party. Almost eight years ago, the U.S. elected its first black president and in November they might elect their first woman president. Welcome to the 21 century. Despite some pundits calling for a close race between Clinton and her Democratic rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton pulled off a decisive victory, winning 257 delegates with 56% of the popular vote. Sanders came away with 188 delegates with 43.1%. What is interesting is that Clinton didn’t even need California to push her over the edge in the delegate count. She had it a few hours earlier after winning primaries in New Jersey and New Mexico earlier in the evening. In the delegate count Clinton has 2,755, which includes 571 superdelegates, who are free to vote for whatever candidate they chose. At the end of the night Sanders only had 1,852, including 48 superdelegates. It takes 2,383 delegates to secure a majority for a Democratic candidate. The results of the June super-Tuesday primary came a day after an NBC national poll put Clinton 4 points ahead of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Along with the latest national survey, Predictit.com still has Clinton well ahead of Trump with a 65% probability of becoming president compared to Trump’s 36%.
But her performance in the national polls makes last night’s results a little bitter-sweet because, with her razor-thin lead, Clinton must continue to fight a two-front battle between Trump and Sanders who has vowed to continue the fight to the July Democratic convention. Sanders was putting all his hopes in a good showing in California and now that those have been dashed, instead of bowing out gracefully, he continues to fight, which will only continue to hurt the party, which needs to now look to unify. Sanders is like a punch-drunk fighter, too beat up to go on but too prideful to go down. At this point, I have a better chance of winning the Democratic nomination than Sanders. The longer Sanders stays in the race the better chance Trump has of wooing his disenfranchised voters. This is unlikely If Sanders truly believed in Democratic equality he would bow out and throw his support behind Clinton, who is on the verge of redefining history.
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