Sanders has won 7 out of the last 8 primaries and yet Clinton, with all her legal baggage and ethical issues, is still the presumed frontrunner.
So he has won the supposed coin flips that the media talks about and lost ground when you analyze the delegate counts.
In actuality the investigation would never have happened for any other candidate. The Clintons are scrutinized far more than any other American politicians. (The email scandal came out of the ridiculous Benghazi investigations that the GOP kept running again and again.)
1: "Supposedly" because the polls I just looked up seemed to be nearly identical for Sanders or Clinton vs Trump, with Democrats at ~50% and Trump at ~38%.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...
spread is an average of clinton +10% vs sanders at +16%
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/facebook-primary/
I'd usually ignore Facebook likes, and FiveThirtyEight insists it's for fun as well. However, their throwaway comment "If Facebook likes were votes... Donald Trump [would] garner more support than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combined" has actually proven to be accurate.
Trump: 48% Delegates, 53% Republican Likes
Cruz: 32% Delegates, 28% Republican Likes
Rubio: 11% Delegates, 16% Republican Likes
Kasich: 9% Delegates, 3% Republican Likes
Though if you add Carson back in, it stops matching up. And certainly the Facebook Like counts don't match delegate counts on the Democrat side. But I thought it was odd how closely the Facebook figures were matching for the Republicans.