2016 Postmortem
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Hillary Clinton, way ahead of Bernie Sanders in popular votes, delegates, super delegates and states won, finds herself in a twitter firestorm (snicker) after 250,000 uses of the twitter hashtag #dropouthillary is used on twitter.
Putting that massive (snicker) number in perspective:
250,000 is the number of times the hashtag has been used, not the number of twitter users who have used it. THAT number is likely considerably lower.
Many of the twitter users are anonymous, with no real indication of what political party they belong to, whether they're actually US citizens, registered voters or even old enough to vote.
Hillary Clinton currently leads Bernie Sanders by 3 MILLION REAL voters, including a significant amount of women and people of color.
#getrealbernie
Response to wyldwolf (Original post)
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wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)* Clinton has won the female vote in every single primary except three Sen. Bernie Sanders' home state of Vermont, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, where Clinton lost but still was nearly even with Sanders.
* In every single state where exit polling was done, Clinton over-performed among women, meaning that she got a higher percentage of female voters than the individual primary electorates as a whole. That's true even in states she lost to Sanders.
* Further, in almost every primary state so far, Clinton has captured higher percentages of the female vote than she did in those same primaries in 2008, including in states that could decide the general election. In Virginia, for example, Clinton took 39 percent of the female Democratic primary vote in 2008, and 70 percent this year. In another swing state, Florida, Clinton's share of the female primary vote went from 54 percent to 70 percent. In Nevada, Clinton went from 51 percent of the female vote in 2008 to 57 percent in February's caucuses, and in North Carolina, she improved from 43 percent of women voters to 59 percent this year.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/women-may-decide-the-2016-election
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)"Among women who are mentally competent and still have control of their bladder, Bernie is the preferred candidate." - saving your quote for posterity.
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)This person doesn't belong here.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Not only is your post sick, it isn't even true, as I have shown several times with links.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)-Tessa F
You represent your candidate well, I think.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)This person is about to be shown the door, I reckon.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Link?
It is Hillary who has a problem with women (at the least the ones who are lucid and are actually following events closely.
Link?
You're making this up as you go.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)-Tessa F
SMH
You represent your candidate well, I think.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)I mean everyone else got the good smears and all you get is old sexism and racist smears from last year.
Better luck next time.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)In your attempted smear you neglected to even refute the facts I posted.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Or that if countless other women. We want a female in the WH ASAP just not any woman.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Which states are doing that?
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And there are many women and PoC retweeting that hashtag.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)We wouldn't be having an election in November, I guess.
This is why we will never be voting on social media. What happens on Twitter is irrelevant to much of anything, really.
Tweet and Retweet were in a boat. Tweet fell out. Who was left?
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)somebody has a fully diaper and needs a nappy & binky!
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)So your "reasoning" is any hashtag negative to Hillary is a direct slam of minorities and women because some have voted for her?