Clinton Takes on Boston and Potentially Super Tuesday

Hillary Clinton entering Boston on the Monday afternoon before Super Tuesday. By Twitter user @NickMerrill

After standing outside the Old South Meeting House on Monday morning, a line formed down Washington Street, filled with supporters and reporters until the State Street subway station, almost three hours before Hillary Clinton was to appear. After a billowing speech, she plunged into the crowds, ready to pose for selfies and shaking hands. She is comfortable with her grasp on the democratic primary after leaving Sanders in the dust, she begins looking toward the general election and targeted the GOP both in Springfield, MA and Boston. .

With 271,514 votes to Sanders’s 95,977, Clinton blew the democratic primary out of the water and is no longer targeting Senator Sanders and turns her line of fire straight for the republican party.

While in Massachusetts on Monday afternoon, she said that the finger pointing and the hate from the GOP does nothing except “set a bad example.”

“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” said Clinton to the meeting house full of people of all ages as she shed light on the historical setting, “I don’t know what those founders and early patriots would think about what we’re up against today.”

In one of her many pokes at Donald Trump, “Make America Great Again,” she mocked, “America never stopped being great; we need to make it whole again.”

The win in South Carolina exemplified that Clinton’s campaign is making moves and is durable against the threat of Bernie Sanders taking the win.

Just days ago, Clinton’s campaign seemed as though it was walked over enough, yet she heads toward Super Tuesday with a sense of entitlement. Even though the numbers in South Carolina do not exactly show the true outcome of the primary, it does bring a sense of strong outcome for the Clinton campaign for Tuesday.

However, the question is stands as to why Clinton somehow beat Sanders in the political face-off. The answer lies not with white voters, as they took to Sanders. Instead, Clinton took 80 percent of the votes of African-Americans, giving her an overwhelming victory as well as fulfilling CNN’sexit poll of a 3-to-1 win over Sanders. For every black vote that Sanders received, the exit poll suggested that Clinton received six, according to The Washington Post.

Screenshot of a tweet by Hillary Clinton’s traveling press secretary from the Boston rally on Monday afternoon at the Old South Meeting House.

During Saturday’s primary, the number of black voters made up a greater number in the voting base, according to CNN; even more so than the 2008 election.

The exit polls also noted that even though Sanders still took the younger voters which only made up 15 percent of the primary electorate, Clinton won among voters across the spectrum, including those who identified themselves as progressives. Sanders may have the young voters, but Clinton is taking on the diverse population by storm.

Super Tuesday, Mar. 1, will have democratic voters will host primaries in 11 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, according to CNN. In addition, any democrats studying abroad will also send in their ballots.