Anymore, it's easy to predict what the media will focus on. Donald Trump's multiple wins in hotly contested Super Tuesday presidential primary races dominated media coverage Tuesday evening, overshadowing Hillary Clinton's equally impressive — and arguably, more significant — performance.
To be sure, Trump had a great run last night, taking seven states — GA, AL, MA, TN, VA, AR, VT — compared to Cruz’s three — TX, OK, AK — and Rubio’s golden egg, MN. But it deserves mentioning that if you take a look at the percentages within each state accounting for Trump's 315 total delegates, his wins hardly account for the upset the media is making it out to be.
Trump’s greatest victories were in MA, where he earned 48 percent versus Kasich’s 18 percent, and in AL, where he grabbed 44 percent versus Cruz’s 21 percent. In no state did Trump achieve 50 percent or more of the vote, and of course, none of the primaries last night were winner-take-all contests.
Clinton, on the other hand, repeatedly upset Sanders by 40-50 percent margins in her seven state wins. In AL she secured 78 percent, in GA she won 71 percent, in TN, TX and AR she got 66 percent, and she took coveted VA with 64 percent. She also squeezed by for the win in MA, territory that was formerly guaranteed for Sanders.
Sure, it makes sense that a race between five candidates will yield smaller disparities than a race between two, but the real story on Tuesday was Clinton’s surprising dominance and how her 577 delegates could serve as a bellwether for what’s to come on March 15 (maybe not so much in the general election, as Clinton won in many states that will surely swing red in November).
Of course, none of this mattered to the media last night, all of whom were too busy chanting Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
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