{"id":6642,"date":"2016-04-27T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2016-04-27T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:42:30","slug":"election-morning-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6642","title":{"rendered":"Election Morning Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Democratic Presidential Primary<\/h4>\n<p>The breadth of <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong>&#8216;s victory is hard to overstate. She won all but three very Republican counties. She lost tiny Garrett by 119 votes (6%), Allegheny by 158 (3%), and Carroll by 170 (1%). The other jurisdictions went Clinton, including Montgomery (67%), Prince George&#8217;s (74%), and Baltimore City (65%).<\/p>\n<p>Sanders won millennials but there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6632\">just weren&#8217;t that many of them<\/a>&#8211;over 45 voters were two-thirds of the electorate and 74% voted for Clinton. Women composed a staggering 61% of Democratic primary voters and 68% voted Clinton. African-American voters were 46% of primary voters and went 75% for Clinton, though she also carried white voters by 52-42.<\/p>\n<h4>Democratic Senatorial Primary<\/h4>\n<p>After a fiercely fought race, <strong>Chris Van Hollen<\/strong> ended up winning comfortably by 53-39 over Donna Edwards. Here is the county-by-county breakdown of Van Hollen&#8217;s share of the vote and his margin over Edwards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VH-Margin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VH-Margin.jpg\" alt=\"VH Margin\" width=\"290\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VH-Margin.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VH-Margin-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>Edwards won only three jurisdictions: Baltimore City, Charles and Prince George&#8217;s. Even in her home base of heavily African-American Prince George&#8217;s, Van Hollen managed to win close to one-third of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>One source reports that this is because Van Hollen had volunteers all over Prince George&#8217;s while Edwards was less well organized. Montgomery delivered well for its favorite son, delivering him 76% of the vote. For more on why I think the Edwards campaign fell short, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6605\">yesterday&#8217;s pre-game post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Eighth District Democratic Primary<\/h4>\n<p>After sweating out the returns, Jamie Raskin emerged the winner despite spending less than Trone or Matthews. There still remain quite a few absentee ballots outstanding but Raskin&#8217;s lead is too large for Trone to make up despite his strong program to secure absentee votes.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin ran and won as a progressive. Indeed, he won because he was a strong and passionate liberal advocate, attracting strong grassroots support for his campaign that stood him in good stead against candidates with far better funding.<\/p>\n<p>David Trone spent over $12 million and came in second, edging out Kathleen Matthews. While many might comfort themselves with a strong finish, Trone strikes me as a guy who plays to win and didn&#8217;t spend all that money to be the runner up. At least he knows where to go to drown his sorrows.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Night&#8217;s Biggest Loser<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>EMILY&#8217;s List poured millions and millions of dollars to elect Donna Edwards to the Senate and Kathleen Matthews to the House. Despite both being strong candidates, neither won.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Presidential Primary The breadth of Hillary Clinton&#8216;s victory is hard to overstate. She won all but three very Republican counties. She lost tiny Garrett by 119 votes (6%), Allegheny by 158 (3%), and Carroll by 170 (1%). The other jurisdictions went Clinton, including Montgomery (67%), Prince George&#8217;s (74%), and Baltimore City (65%). Sanders won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Election Morning Wrapup<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-day-coverage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1J8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}