New York Primary

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Washington Examiner:

New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday to have their say in the presidential primary process. Here's a breakdown of how the delegates will be distributed once the votes are counted.

 

All polls close at 9 p.m. ET. The delegates are not awarded in a simple winner-take-all vote: In both party primaries, most of the delegates will be decided based on the votes in New York's 27 congressional districts. Including the delegates awarded by the statewide vote, it's almost like 28 small, separate primaries instead of one big state prize.

 

Republicans

 

Total delegates: 95 — 8 percent of the delegates required to clinch the GOP nomination.

 

 

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How New York will be won

 

Two New Yorks are voting on Tuesday.

 

In the Democratic presidential primary, about half the vote will come from New York City’s five boroughs — a percentage that increases to nearly three-quarters of the vote when the entire New York media market is included.

 

By contrast, the city accounted for only 13 percent of the votes in the 2012 Republican primary. And of the 34 counties across the state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats (out of 62), only one — Putnam County — is located near New York City.

 

But with Donald Trump in a pitched effort to lock down a majority of delegates before July’s Republican convention — and the bulk of New York's GOP delegates distributed by congressional district — suddenly the overwhelmingly Democratic New York City districts take on outsized importance since they award the same number of delegates as the redder upstate districts.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/new-york-primary-222107

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Sweet @Geee! Not commenting on the Repubs, but this is apt for the Dems:

 

 

Realistic! Pot Smoke Pours From Windows!

 

Via TheFeralIrishman

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Trump Confuses 7-Eleven with 9/11

 

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 1:00pm

 

Fire can’t melt slurpees

 

On the campaign trail in Buffalo, New York Monday night, Donald Trump mistakenly referred to the convenience store 7-Eleven in place of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

 

From the AP wire:

 

Donald Trump made an unfortunate slip-of-the-tongue while campaigning in Buffalo, New York, on Monday evening at his final rally before Tuesday’s big-prize primary.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/trump-confuses-7-eleven-for-911/

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Nothing Changed Yesterday—And Trump Is Still Not on the Path to Nomination

 

Before we begin debunking, let’s start with the obvious: It was undoubtedly a good night for Trump and unsurprisingly so, as NR’s Henry Olsen predicted on election eve.

Trump looks to have taken 90 delegates and 60 percent of the vote, somewhat better than projections, although most election-eve forecasts had him taking at least 85 or so of New York’s 95 delegates (Olsen had him pegged for 87).

But despite his victory, Trump got only a very modest bump from New York last night. And despite the breathless TV and print commentary from our New York–centered media, he still faces huge obstacles if he wants to get a sufficient number of delegates to be nominated on the first ballot. And if he is not nominated on the first ballot, given Cruz’s wildly successful delegate strategy, it is unlikely he will be nominated at all.

In fact, according to the analysis of the widely-respected 538.com, Trump actually fell just short of the number of delegates he needed in New York to put himself on the path to the magic number of 1,237.

 

And, though he should have a good week next week when Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island vote, he will need a New York–level performance, not just a victory, if he wants to substantially improve his nomination odds.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434267/donald-trump-new-york-primary-win-changes-nothing

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Trump Got Fewer Votes Than Bernie Sanders In NY

By Steve Berman | April 20, 2016, 07:45am

We must remember one thing about New York. Donald Trump received 234,137 fewer votes than the loser on the Democrat side Bernie Sanders.

In fact, Hillary Clinton received more votes than the entire GOP field combined.

http://theresurgent.com/trump-got-less-votes-than-bernie-sanders-in-ny/