Hillary Clinton speaks in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 15, 2016. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)
While Hillary Clinton picked up more delegates in last week's contests, the headlines in the Democratic race were all about Bernie Sanders' upset win in Michigan. His broadsides against Clinton on trade and Wall Street ties struck a chord with the state's lower middle-class voters and suggested the Democratic front-runner may have her work cut out for her in other Midwest contests, beginning on Tuesday.
Apparently not. Clinton decisively won Ohio, and among voters with incomes between $30,000-$50,000 — a group that favored Sanders by 10 percentage points a week earlier, according to exit polls — Clinton had a narrow edge in Ohio. Meanwhile, just as she has throughout the South in 2016, in Florida, she didn't just win; she won huge, underscoring the challenge for Sanders going forward. Yes, he still has the overwhelming support of young people and in states where independents can vote in the Democratic primary, he's getting their support. But that's not nearly enough anymore — not when Clinton already has an overwhelming lead among superdelegates. Unless the Vermont senator can start winning big states, by big margins, Clinton's lead among pledged delegates will simply be impossible to overcome.
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