Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Time Warp Edition

Don’t worry. While I’m always ready to take a jump to the left, I’m not about to step to the right. And I’m certainly not going to sing.

This is just one of those weeks in which I feel compelled to remind you that many of the pundits wrote their columns, oh, say around Zero-dark-January, and though yesterday’s voting in both parties is of high interest today, few of the columns are going to reference the results. Though it’s easy to visualize a few of them phoning up the editorial desk to say “looks like Trump is going to pull it off, so open the red envelope.”

That said, let’s go straight to some of those which slip in after the horses had crossed the line.

Elizabeth Williamson looks at Hillary’s victory.

With about 80 percent of results tallied, Hillary Clinton was the projected winner of the Nevada Democratic caucus, a win the campaign, now headed to South Carolina for its Feb. 27 primary, attributed to support from African-Americans….

… Exit polls showed Mrs. Clinton had solid support among African-Americans, women and people who would like to see President Barack Obama’s policies continued. Mr. Sanders won among Latino voters, youth and independents, a sign of the challenges awaiting Mrs. Clinton as she looks to build momentum heading into Super Tuesday contests on March 1.

And… see? We kind of already knew these things. Which is why Sunday-morning recaps of Saturday night election results makes for pretty blah reading for people who sit up to watch every district trickle in. It’s more interesting to look at articles like this next one.

Jill Filipovik on Hillary and women voters

The poll numbers and primary results so far tell a simple story: Younger Democratic women are mostly for Bernie Sanders; older women lean more toward Hillary Clinton.

The mothers-versus-daughters narrative, long an election-year trope, is particularly pronounced now, and tinged with stereotypes on both sides. The idealistic but ungrateful naïfs who think sexism is a thing of the past and believe, as Mr. Sanders recently said, that “people should not be voting for candidates based on their gender” are seemingly battling the pantsuited old scolds prattling on about feminism.

Instead, the reality may be another kind of simple numbers game: More time in a sexist world, and particularly in the workplace, radicalizes women.

It’s an interesting argument; one that says Hillary’s support among older women isn’t generated by an obsolete view of society, but by simply a greater awareness of and experience with the obstacles, small and large, which women continue to face once they’ve stepped outside academia and settled into the workplace. It’s also a different take on the relative position of the candidates. Rather than painting Bernie as the revolutionary, here Hillary is the real #@!$-you to the existing system. Worth a read, especially in view of yesterday’s results.

Ok. Come on inside. Let’s look at the rest of ‘em.