Joe Biden just won Mississippi in a massive blowout
As a general rule, the earlier the media calls a state in favor of a candidate, the larger of a margin the candidate is winning that state by. In the case of Mississippi, the networks called it for Joe Biden the second the polls closed. This means Biden won the state in a massive blowout.
At this rate Bernie Sanders, who pulled out of Mississippi, last week, may not even pick up any delegates in the state at all. The next thing to watch is Missouri. NBC News says it’s too early to call, but Joe Biden leads the state. The margin in Missouri won’t be as massive as it is in Mississippi, but the polls do point to Biden winning Missouri by twenty points or more.
If Biden does win Mississippi and Missouri in blowouts, he’ll end up with the majority of overall delegates today, regardless of what happens in Michigan. If Michigan ends up being close, Biden and Sanders will roughly split the delegates in half no matter which of them wins, meaning it’ll have little impact. That said, Michigan matters from a perceptual standpoint, if not necessarily from a mathematical one.
