Caucus states:
Bernie Sanders won or tied ALL the 12 Democratic caucuses.
From those wins he drew 330 pledged delegates to Hillary's 174, for a delegate lead of 156 in Bernie's favor.
Sanders drew 174% of those caucus voters, 701,083 for Bernie, 391,994 for Hillary, a vote count lead for Bernie of 309,089.
Open Primary States (outside the Deep South)
In the 15 Democratic Party open primaries held so far, where independents could cast their ballots, Bernie Sanders tied or won 12 of them.
In pledged delegates, it's a dead heat. Sanders and Clinton are TIED in the open primary states, with 553 pledged delegates each.
Despite the high voter turnout in the three open primary states that Hillary won (Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina) she ended up with only 162,830 more votes than Bernie, out of 10.9 million votes cast in those 15 states, a vote differential of about 1.5%.
Closed Primary States (outside the Deep South)
Hillary Clinton won all seven closed primary contests, where independents and unenrolled voters could not cast ballots.
A total of 6.9 million Democrats cast votes those seven states.
The 9.6 million independents who were denied ballot access under closed primary rules in those states WILL be able to vote in November.
Pledged delegate totals in those seven states are 522 for Hillary, 356 for Bernie, a lead of 166 delegates for Hillary.
Two of those states, Arizona and New York, have had suits filed over election irregularities, including calls for re-votes in both states.
Going Forward
Bottom line, in the 34 states that CAN send a Democrat to the White House, Sanders and Clinton are only 10 pledged delegates apart, with 897 more to be voted in eight states, DC and two territories between now (May 11) and June 14.
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