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Super Tuesday Articles Reflection

Clinton trounces Sanders to win South Carolina Democratic Primary

This article did an adequate job explaining how Hillary Clinton was able to take South Carolina over Bernie Sanders. The lede was very good and set up the rest of the article very well. I thought that the diction was fairly biased at certain points but it is understandable considering the margin of victory Clinton won by. The sources in the article were varied in age and political expertise, which I thought was very useful in terms of understanding the general political environment in South Carolina. The article also did a good job explaining why South Carolina was such a Clinton Stronghold, giving some description of her husband’s political history in the state.

2016 Primary Results and Calendar

This piece was, for the most part, a graphic showing the distribution of votes and states for both the Republican and Democratic Candidates. The top of the graphic showed only the 2016 Super Tuesday results while the lower portion of the piece showed the outcomes of past Super Tuesdays. I thought this graphic did a great job showing voter trends and history. It is a very valuable piece of information for journalists because by looking at history we are more able to review the Primary results from a more informed stand point. For example, the Democratic Primary results in Georgia are more interesting considering that Obama won in 2008. This rise in popularity for Hillary Clinton suggests something that could be worth more investigation into the matter.