Wisconsin Votes And Gives Bernie Sanders A Victory

Democrats in Wisconsin went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in their primary. And those voters preferred Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton by 56% to 43% -- a 13 point margin.

Bernie is to be congratulated on his victory, but he still has a very tall mountain to climb before the Democrats give their nomination. He only picked up about 10-12 delegates in Wisconsin. He needed to do much better than that.

The next state to vote is Wyoming. That state has a caucus, which favors Sanders -- but only 14 delegates are up for grabs there. The next delegate-rich state to vote is New York, which holds its primary on April 19th. It has 247 delegates up for grabs -- and the polls all show Clinton with a healthy lead there.

Here is how the delegate totals stand right now (from Bloomberg Politics):

Primary/Caucus delegates:
Clinton...............1274
Sanders...............1025
difference...............249

Total delegates:
Clinton...............1743
Sanders...............1056
difference...............687

There are now 1,966 delegates that are not yet allocated. Hillary Clinton needs to win 640 of them, or 32.6%. Bernie Sanders needs to win 1,327 of them, or 67.5%.