@AveryTheComrade on Twitter brings us this gorgeous map with the following comment:
California was one of 3 states (California, Iowa, Nevada) that Bernie Sanders flipped from the 2016-2020 Democratic primaries, but unlike in 2016 it was much less of a 2-way race. Sanders won with 36% of the vote, 9% above Biden, mostly with support from the lost coast and valley pic.twitter.com/UI6JJFzXru
— Avery 🐸 (@AveryTheComrade) May 16, 2021
The Democratic primary is interesting because of its arcane semi-proportional delegate system. You earn delegates per House district as well as statewide, but you only win delegates from a place if you get at least 15% of the vote within those geographical boundaries. This makes a candidate's distribution of votes very important.
This one is worth zooming in on to see some of the nitty-gritty details and fine map-making.
