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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Sun May 8, 2016, 11:36 PM May 2016

Math is Math.

NOTHING gets around that. No amount of squabbling, complaining...NOTHING.

When a Bernie supporter attacks Hillary, "And yet, she is *still* beating your guy. Math is math".

We have to start to turn toward the general, but keeping in mind...her lead is insurmountable, so he is only helping the GOP by staying in.

Math is math. That's all you have to say

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Math is Math. (Original Post) LaydeeBug May 2016 OP
Speaking of math... JSup May 2016 #1
Don't back down. Don't give up. Don't get distracted. LaydeeBug May 2016 #2
"She hasn't won until there's a vote on the convention floor".... George II May 2016 #3
"They will see he is teh awesome" nt LaydeeBug May 2016 #4
They keep changing the math they use. LiberalFighter May 2016 #5
They keep trying to change the rules to suit them LaydeeBug May 2016 #6

JSup

(740 posts)
1. Speaking of math...
Sun May 8, 2016, 11:55 PM
May 2016

...did anyone else see this story? And did anyone think of a rabid Bernie supporter (not to be confused with a real, rational Bernie supporter) when they read it? I felt guilty after thinking so, but the thought did cross my mind.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
2. Don't back down. Don't give up. Don't get distracted.
Mon May 9, 2016, 11:56 AM
May 2016

Math is math, and he *cannot* win. I would have preferred to see a coalition...but we have to play the hand we're dealt, not the hand we wish we had.

Math is math. NOTHING they say detracts from that. NOTHING.

There are not enough delegates left in this race for him to win this, EVEN IF HE WINS EVERY REMAINING PRIMARY BY 100%. (which he won't anyway)

I will try to welcome them with open arms, once he finally concedes, but I will be damned if I become a doormat for their petulance in the meantime.

Fuck that.

LiberalFighter

(51,229 posts)
5. They keep changing the math they use.
Mon May 9, 2016, 01:59 PM
May 2016

Just review Maddow's interview of Sanders and he said that if he wins the majority of states he should get the nomination. That is ridiculous.

If that was also applied to the general election it would be even more difficult to win the Presidency.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
6. They keep trying to change the rules to suit them
Mon May 9, 2016, 04:14 PM
May 2016

It is time to NOT back down. Hillary Clinton is the presumptive nominee and we have to start moving forward.

edit: typo

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