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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts)
Tue May 17, 2016, 05:19 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton keeps losing; so how come she’s winning?

Bernie Sanders is on a roll. He's won the last two Democratic primaries and stands a good chance Tuesday of adding Oregon and perhaps Kentucky to his pile of victories.

Yet Hillary Clinton is likely to continue her seemingly unstoppable march to the party's presidential nomination.

How can that be?

It's not a conspiracy, as some angry Sanders backers suggest, a result of dark magic or a wrinkle in the time-space continuum. Rather, it's the rules that Democrats play by — rules that now work to Clinton's advantage, even as they thwarted her candidacy eight years ago, when she lost a nominating fight to then-Sen. Barack Obama.

MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/clinton-keeps-losing-so-how-come-shes-winning/



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Zynx

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2. I will point out, by the way, that she's only lost two single-state contests since April 26th.
Tue May 17, 2016, 05:21 PM
May 2016

In two states with dramatically lower turnout than 2008 and in one case, West Virginia, with a disingenuous electorate that was voting Sanders despite their intention to support Trump in November regardless of the Dem Primary outcome.

For what it's worth, she also has won Guam and the Nebraska non-binding primary since that time as well.

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