Hillary Clinton Will Be Nominated Because More Democrats Are Voting For Her

It’s an emblematically annoying ending to the Democratic campaign, one that reflects both the acrimony between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and the fact that Clinton, in the end, is winning her party’s nomination by every available measure. …

Clinton will be the Democratic nominee because substantially more Democrats have voted for her. In addition to her elected delegate majority, she’s received approximately 13.5 million votes so far in primaries and caucuses, as compared with 10.5 million for Sanders.

Nor, after a strong run of contests for Sanders in late March and early April, is there much sign of forward momentum for Sanders. CONT.

Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight

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