This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on May 12, 2016. It’s a little ironic that the presumptive nominee in one party put all his rivals on the sidelines after winning just 40.64 percent of the vote in the primaries and caucuses, while a candidate for the other party’s nomination has won 55.97 percent of the vote but is still being stiffly challenged and lost this month’s primaries in Indiana and West Virginia. These percentages, compiled by the numbers-crunchers at TheGreenPapers.com, are just another manifestation of the strange year it’s been. There was no path left for Ted Cruz or John Kasich, so they’ve dropped out of contention for the Republican nomination while Bernie Sanders is still plugging away and winning contests despite the fact that he has no viable path to the Democratic nomination. The NBC News political unit calculates that Sanders would have to win 86 percent of the remaining delegates overtake Hillary Clinton. That’s a virtually impossible task in a system of proportional allocation of delegates. When Sanders won West Virginia this week, he got just 16
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