Hillary Clinton clobbered Bernie Sanders in the District of Columbia’s presidential primary on Tuesday. The former secretary of state took 79 percent of the vote to Sanders’s 20 percent.
In a sense, D.C.’s electoral makeup is perfectly aligned for Hillary: It’s comprised largely of African Americans; wealthy professionals; and people with a vested interest in maintaining the government’s status quo. (Suffice it to say, Sanders’s promised “political revolution” was not an enticing prospect for D.C.’s legions of congressional staffers, lobbyists, lawyers, etc.) That the former first lady herself is a denizen of a leafy neighborhood in Northwest Washington probably helped as well.
Nearly 100,000 Democrats participated in the primary. The D.C. Republican presidential primary, meanwhile, held earlier this year, drew fewer than 3,000 voters.
