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](/web/20160312011405im_/http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2568209.1457636699!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_300_160/image.jpg)
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.