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		<title>The Sanders Hypothesis: This Weekend&#8217;s Primaries</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend there are Democratic Party primaries or caucuses in Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Maine and Puerto Rico. The model I developed for predicting primary and caucus outcomes indicates the following results as most likely: Sanders is losing the primaries, so far, and Clinton is on the path to victory. However, Sanders has a fair amount &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/03/05/the-sanders-hypothesis-this-weekends-primaries/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Sanders Hypothesis: This Weekend&#8217;s Primaries</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This weekend there are Democratic Party primaries or caucuses in Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Maine and Puerto Rico.  <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/03/02/super-tuesday-what-does-it-mean-for-the-democratic-primary/">The model I developed for predicting primary and caucus outcomes</a> indicates the following results as most likely:</p>
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<p>Sanders is losing the primaries, so far, and Clinton is on the path to victory.  However, Sanders has a fair amount of time to catch up. Perhaps he just needs his strategy to take hold. The idea was to have a revolution, which in this case, means a lot of people show up.  A lot of people did show up, but not enough. Sanders needs to get the rest of them to show up in these states! (<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/03/02/super-tuesday-what-does-it-mean-for-the-democratic-primary/">My model</a> only addresses states, sorry Puerto Rico, and yes, you should be a state).</p>
<p>So, in a way, this weekend&#8217;s events are individual tests for the hypothesis that Sanders can pull his nuts out of the fire and catch up to Clinton.  (<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-penis/">Unlike Republicans, we speak not of genitalia here</a>, but rather, chestnuts. Roasting. In the open fire of politics. You&#8217;ve heard the expression, right?)</p>
<p>This could be a good weekend for Sanders in terms of victories. I&#8217;m predicting he takes Nebraska, possibly Kansas, and certainly Maine. Three wins all at once will invigorate his campaign.</p>
<p>However, note that these numbers are from <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/03/02/super-tuesday-what-does-it-mean-for-the-democratic-primary/">a model that predicts a Clinton lock on the nomination </a>by mid April.  A sign that Sanders is doing better than that projection would be doing less badly in Louisiana, and significantly better in Nebraska and Kansas.  I don&#8217;t think doing better than projected in Maine will mean much, because there is a probably favorite son effect there.</p>
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