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wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
Thu May 5, 2016, 06:28 AM May 2016

Bernie followers try to overturn electoral will of women and people of color with twitter hashtag

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

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Bernie followers try to overturn electoral will of women and people of color with twitter hashtag (Original Post) wyldwolf May 2016 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #1
"The majority of women under 65 voted for Bernie" wyldwolf May 2016 #6
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #7
New voters are the only ones that matter- and know the candidates? LOL. bettyellen May 2016 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #12
Are you deliberately trying to make SBS supporters look like callow and bitter children? bettyellen May 2016 #14
She forgets Bernie is in that age group, too. wyldwolf May 2016 #17
I'm going with yes. This is not a Bernie supporter. auntpurl May 2016 #20
"Most of Hillary's female support Comes from the age group most at risk of dementia." wyldwolf May 2016 #15
MIRT! CLEANUP ON AISLE 3! auntpurl May 2016 #18
SMH (redux) DemocratSinceBirth May 2016 #19
Even I won't attribute this nonsense to a genuine Bernie supporter. auntpurl May 2016 #21
Someone can't vote for two people. Hillary has outperformed Bernie among women in 2016 wyldwolf May 2016 #11
SMH DemocratSinceBirth May 2016 #13
Kinda.feel.sorry.for.you SwampG8r May 2016 #2
Kind of feel sorry for you wyldwolf May 2016 #3
I didnt see any just old meme tossing by the not.cool.enough to.get new memes guy. SwampG8r May 2016 #4
Not My Political Will colsohlibgal May 2016 #5
I didn't realize we had tweet-in voting yet. lagomorph777 May 2016 #8
I'm a woman. I'm #NotWithHer Fawke Em May 2016 #9
Well, if you could tweet your vote and get everyone else to retweet it... MineralMan May 2016 #16
Better call the WAAAAAAH-mbulance.... Yurovsky May 2016 #22
Lunacy whatchamacallit May 2016 #23

Response to wyldwolf (Original post)

wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
6. "The majority of women under 65 voted for Bernie"
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:45 PM
May 2016

* 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

Response to wyldwolf (Reply #6)

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
10. New voters are the only ones that matter- and know the candidates? LOL.
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:58 PM
May 2016

"Among women who are mentally competent and still have control of their bladder, Bernie is the preferred candidate." - saving your quote for posterity.

Response to bettyellen (Reply #10)

wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
15. "Most of Hillary's female support Comes from the age group most at risk of dementia."
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:02 PM
May 2016

Not only is your post sick, it isn't even true, as I have shown several times with links.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
19. SMH (redux)
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:04 PM
May 2016
Most of Hillary's female support comes from the age group most at risk of dementia.


-Tessa F


You represent your candidate well, I think.

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
21. Even I won't attribute this nonsense to a genuine Bernie supporter.
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:05 PM
May 2016

This person is about to be shown the door, I reckon.

wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
11. Someone can't vote for two people. Hillary has outperformed Bernie among women in 2016
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:58 PM
May 2016
Among women who are mentally competent and still have control of their bladder, Bernie is the preferred candidate.

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)
13. SMH
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:00 PM
May 2016
Among women who are mentally competent and still have control of their bladder, Bernie is the preferred candidate.

-Tessa F



SMH

You represent your candidate well, I think.

SwampG8r

(10,287 posts)
2. Kinda.feel.sorry.for.you
Thu May 5, 2016, 06:59 AM
May 2016

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)
3. Kind of feel sorry for you
Thu May 5, 2016, 07:05 AM
May 2016

In your attempted smear you neglected to even refute the facts I posted.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
5. Not My Political Will
Thu May 5, 2016, 09:10 AM
May 2016

Or that if countless other women. We want a female in the WH ASAP just not any woman.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
16. Well, if you could tweet your vote and get everyone else to retweet it...
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:03 PM
May 2016

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?

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
23. Lunacy
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:29 PM
May 2016

So your "reasoning" is any hashtag negative to Hillary is a direct slam of minorities and women because some have voted for her?

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