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Some news items you might have missed: • LGBTQ Nation: In a personal essay, Justice Horn (above), chairman of the Kansas City LGBTQ Commission, shares how he wasn’t always proud to be a Black queer man. But one heart-wrenching moment changed everything. Continue reading “Justice Horn On What It Took For Him To Be Out & Proud + More News”
It was not a great primary night for Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley here in my home state of Nevada. In the ‘First in the West’ contest – where she basically had no competition – Haley came in second with just 30% of GOP voters 33 points behind “None of these candidates.” Former Vice President Mike Pence (who’s dropped out of the race) garnered a whopping 2.96% of the vote. Continue reading “Nikki Haley’s Bad Night In Nevada”
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LGBT political activist Aaron Baldwin compiled this list of stats as we exit the 2016 primary season:
• PLEDGED DELEGATES . . . 4,051 Total . . . 2,026 Majority
CLINTON – Pledged Delegates: . . . 2,203 (+177 over majority)
SANDERS – Pledged Delegates: . . . 1,828 (-199 under majority)
• SUPER DELEGATES . . . . . . . .712 Total . . . . . 361 Majority
CLINTON – Super Delegates: . . . 574 (+214 over majority)
SANDERS – Super Delegates: . . . . 48 (-313 under majority)
• ALL DELEGATES: . . . . . 4,763 Total . . . 2,382 Needed to Win
CLINTON – Total Delegates: . . . 2,777 (+395 over majority)
SANDERS – Total Delegates: . . . 1,876 (-506 under majority) (which means Sanders needs almost all of Clinton’s superdelegates to flip to overrule the will of the voters)
*112 delegates (pledged & super remain available at this time)
Source: Real Clear Politics
• CONTESTS WON:
HILLARY CLINTON: 33
BERNIE SANDERS: 22
• POPULAR VOTE WON:
HILLARY CLINTON: . . … 16,005,378 (55.63%)
BERNIE SANDERS: . . . . 12,279,425 (42.68%)
TOTAL VOTES CAST: . . . 28,284,803
CLINTON LEAD: . . . . . . +3,725,953 (+12.95%)
Popular vote total includes: AK,AL,AR,AS,AZ,CA,CO,CT,DA,DE,FL,GA,GU,HI,ID,IL,IN,KS,KY,LA,MA,MD,MI,MN,MO,MP,MS,MT,NC,ND,NE,NH,NJ,NM,NY,OH,OK,OR,PA,PR,RI,SC,SD,TN,TX,UT,VA,VI,VT,WI,WV and excludes caucus (popular) vote IA(C),ME(S),NV(C),WA(S),WY(S).
Source: The Green Papers
FYI – Donald Trump Popular Vote – 13,445,461 (-2,559,971 Clinton)
NOTE: Some numbers from Tuesday night may still be adjusting, some delegates may still be allocated for state Congressional Districts, the DC primary (20 pledged delegates, 25 Super) is not included (6/14), some superdelegates have not yet declared.
06/09/2016, 8:21AM PT