US election: Did the Irish swing Massachusetts for Hillary Clinton?

Democratic frontrunner beat Bernie Sanders by scoring big wins in Boston and Springfield

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and US Representative Richard Neal  rally with supporters at Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and US Representative Richard Neal rally with supporters at Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Look at a map of the Democratic presidential primary so far and you will see Bernie Sanders’s colour dominates northern states and Hillary Clinton’s the south, save for a few pockets up north.

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