The Super Tuesday primaries were a big deal for Milligan College. For this report, I did a lot of number crunching with the election return data. I also attended an on campus election return viewing party to get student reaction.
Various campaign signs were displayed at the polls on Tuesday morning. |
Students gathered in the Jeanes Community room Tuesday night to watch the election returns coverage. |
Members of the Milligan Democrats and Republicans pose for a group photo at Tuesday night’s watch party.Left to right: Hunter Shepard, Republicans president; Katherine Siglin, Democrats co-president; Abby Morris, Republicans director of public relations; and John Steadman, Democrats co-president. Photo by Matt Owens, contributed |
See complete state-by-state returns after the article.Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won the most states and delegates on Super Tuesday.
Trump is now ahead of his closest rival, Ted Cruz, by 90 delegates. Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders by 191 delegates. She has more than twice as many delegates as Sanders when superdelegates are taken into account.
On the Republican side, Trump won seven of the 11 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Cruz won Alaska, Oklahoma and Texas. Rubio won in Minnesota. The Texas win was particularly important for Cruz, giving him 99 delegates from his home state. Neither John Kasich nor Ben Carson won any race, but Kasich was a close second in Vermont.
Trump did not win more than half of the vote in any race. In five of his seven wins, his second- and third-place opponents had a greater percentage of votes combined.
On the Democratic side, Clinton also won seven of the 11 races: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Sanders won Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Vermont.
Clinton won by a wide margin of about two-thirds of the vote or more in all of her winning races but one. Massachusetts was an incredibly close race. Sanders won by smaller margins in all but Vermont, his home state.
The Milligan College Democrats and Republicans clubs hosted a viewing party to watch as the Super Tuesday results came in. Around 20 people attended the event. They were yelling in anticipation when it came time to announce the results in Tennessee.
Hunter Shepard, president of the Milligan Republicans club, left the room when Trump was announced the winner in Tennessee.
“I’m a sad person right now,” Shepard said. “Very sad. I’m sad for our nation, for what we might have to endure, but I know there’s a higher power in control.”
Shepard was wearing a button that read “Rubio for President.”
“This is a defining moment for Republicans,” he continued. “We’re witnessing a splitting of the party. I don’t remember in my studies of politics of having ever read of such divisiveness.”
Shepard listed national security, immigration and what he called a “sense of social structure” as the big issues in this campaign.
“I think this year it’s exciting for me because on the Democrat side, you have Clinton, who was called the most qualified candidate in modern history by the New York Times, and Bernie’s message resonates with what a lot of Americans are feeling,” said John Steadman, co-president of the Milligan Democrats.
Steadman cited income inequality and climate change as the big issues deciding his vote.
The next step for the presidential candidates will be four elections on March 5 in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine.
State-by-State Results
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