This latest Update reports on the results of the SuperTuesday voting. It also questions whether Hillary Clinton can win the general election, especially if it is against Trump.

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Results of SuperTuesday Voting

Bernie Sanders won four of the states that had either caucuses or primaries on Tuesday. March 1^st . The fifth state that he had hoped to win --Massachusetts -- Clinton won in a squeaker. Final tally not yet in.

However, the seven states that Clinton won does not a general-election-winner make. At least five of the states -- Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas are Republican -- red -- states. Virginia is a maybe with Massachusetts a solid blue.

So the newspapers and TV networks that are bloviating about this being a huge victory for Clinton, claiming that she can win in all voting categories simply reveals their bias. This was no firewall.

There are even calls for Bernie to drop out. Yet three of the four states that he won are blue -- Vermont, of course, was a blowout where he got more than 85% of the vote, Minneapolis, and Colorado. Oklahoma is usually a red state. Can Hillary win a general election if she cannot win blue states?

Some delegate counts include Superdelegates. These should really be added after the primaries have been concluded.

Thirty-five other states have not yet voted plus the non-state places like the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Democrats living abroad have another week to tally their votes.

Was It Illegal?

The Boston Globe and some Internet news sites reported on Bill Clinton's questionable activities in Boston on Tuesday. People began reporting Tuesday evening that the former president, accompanied by Mayor Marty Walsh, had been going into polls and chatting with voters.

State law is very clear that there can be no campaigning of any kind within 150 feet of a polling place. Voters are not even allowed to wear a political button that is visible on a jacket or backpack. Will a former president or a mayor be charged with violating the law? Or is it just ordinary people that can't do this?

Michael Whouley is the go-to-guy for a Democratic candidate whose campaign is in trouble. John Kerry called on him in 2004 when he faced the prospect of losing in Iowa. One wonders whether he was behind persuading outgoing Senator Harry Reid to call casino owners in Las Vagas to ask them to hold caucuses in their casinos when it looked like Sanders would win there. Their employees would be able to participate in a caucus and still be paid for this off-duty time. CNN's Wolf Blitzer reminded viewers that Las Vegas was a Clinton stronghold and, sure enough, Las Vegas put her over the top in Nevada. But not by much.

Whouley has a consulting firm in Boston. Could it be that he persuaded Bill that visiting polls on Election Day would be a help to his wife in a close race?

Democratic Debate in Flint, Michigan on Sunday, March 6 ^th

CNN will air the debate, one of three add-ons after protests forced the DNC to schedule more than the paltry six. Chuck Todd will probably be one of the moderators.

Caucuses and Primaries Coming Up

On this Saturday, March 5 ^th , Kansas and Nebraska will hold caucuses and Louisiana will have a primary. On Sunday, Maine will caucus and on Tuesday, March 8 ^th , Michigan and Mississippi will have primaries.

Can Hillary Clinton Win The General Election?

This question is being asked again here because a rather long article in Current Affairs lays out an argument that says she cannot. Here's the link:

http://static.currentaffairs.org/2016/02/unless-the-democrats-nominate-sanders-a-trump-nomination-means-a-trump-presidency

Dollars from a Hedge Fund that invests in. . . .

"Just days before the Iowa caucus, Hillary Clinton left the campaign trail for a high-dollar fundraiser at a hedge fund. That same hedge fund is a major investor in fracking, an incredibly destructive practice of extracting natural gas by pumping hundreds of secret chemicals into the ground. Hillary Clinton supports fracking. I do not." (www.berniesanders.com)

Sanders Sets Another Fundraising Record

Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver reported on Tuesday that contributions, during the month of February, averaging $30 each, had totaled more than $42 million.

Three Important Endorsements

Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman from Hawaii, resigned her position as one of five vice chairs of the DNC in order to endorse Bernie. Gabbard clashed with DWS over the limited number of Democratic debates and against DWS's partiality for Clinton. An Iraq War vet and member of Hawaii Army National Guard, she stated in her video announcing her resignation, "We need a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment, and who understands the need for a robust foreign policy which defends the safety and security of the American people, and who will not waste precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change."

On February 26 ^th , Robert Reich announced that he was supporting Bernie. A Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and a longtime friend of both Bill and Hillary, he said that Sanders would bring about the long time need for change by taking on the huge concentration of wealth. "It is the fundamental prerequisite: We have little hope of achieving positive change on any front unless the American people are once again in control."

And in an unusual online poll conducted on his campaign web site that asked whether he should support Clinton or Sanders, Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida, a SuperDelegate and Senate candidate, reported that 86 percent of the 400,000 Democrats who responded voted in favor of Sanders.

Authors Bio:

Now retired and a writer, I am a feminist and political activist, a radical Democrat (have come to dislike the term "progressive"), and a blogger. Have done political tours of Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, West and East (way back when)Germany, China, etc. Learned a lot about the US through other people's eyes. Wrote about my life in "Discovering America: A Political Journey." And was one of six winners of an international essay contest sponsored by Cuban ministeries.