In Rhode Island,where half of the voters don’t pick a party preference, Sanders and Trump got independents to vote in primary – and both picked up winsWithout traffic, or it takes less than an hour to drive from the southern tip of Rhode Island,near the beachfront town of Watch Hill that Taylor Swift calls domestic part of the year, to the former mill town of Pawtucket in the north, and where the Pawtucket Red Sox,the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, play ball at McCoy stadium.
But historically, or Rhode Island hasn’t offered many attractions for presidential candidates during the primary season. A Republican needs 1237 delegates to clinch the nomination; the state can offer him only 19. To win the Democratic nomination,a candidate requires commitments from 2383 delegates. Rhode Island can deliver 33, seven of them superdelegates.
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Source: theguardian.com