The Nebraska Democratic Caucus results were a pretty resounding victory for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Paul Landow, a Professor in UNO’s Department of Political Science, says Sanders nabbed 57.1% of the caucus votes compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 42.9%.
But Landow says Clinton got a large number of delegates just not quite as many as Sanders.
He says while Nebraska has 25 delegates they also have five super delegates and even before voting started Saturday, three of the five super delegates were committed to Clinton.
Landow says it was a good victory for Sanders but it doesn’t make much of a dent in Clinton’s delegate total.
"Hillary has a good lead overall in the national sense and it looks like things will work out very well for her in the next couple weeks. She’s ahead in Ohio, ahead in Michigan, and the rust belt states that should be very good for her, Illinois as well. Although Sanders is doing well, he’s not doing quite well enough to catch her.”
Landow says a super delegate is an elite who holds a title in the party like the state chair or a national committee man or woman.
He says they are designated that because they can make any decision they want and aren’t bound by the votes of the state they come from.
For more information, the website is NebraskaDemocrats.org.