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Source: U.S. Uncut
Hillary Clinton Won 6 Out of 6 Coin Tosses Last Night.
Heres How Statistically Improbable That Is
Amanda Girard | February 2, 2016
The Iowa Democratic caucus vote count was so close last night that at least 6 precincts were decided by flipping a coin an obscure procedure in the Iowa caucus bylaws. And in all 6 instances, the last remaining county delegate went to Hillary Clinton. Winning 6 coin tosses in a row is extraordinarily rare, and only has a 1.6 percent probability of occurring. As journalist Ben Norton explained, thats broken down by calculating (1/2)^6, which is 1/64 or 1.6 percent.
If Bernie Sanders had won half of the coin flips and split the six county delegates three and three with Clinton, he would have finished at 698.49 delegates to Clintons 696.57, effectively giving him an Iowa victory. According to a live map of all Iowa precincts, Clinton has a razor-thin 0.3 percent lead over the Vermont U.S. Senator with 99.9 percent of precincts reporting.
In addition to the coin flip tiebreakers, one widely discussed controversy was a missing 60 voters in one Iowa precinct which may have flipped the delegate count in Bernie Sanders favor:
David Schweingruber, an associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University, explained to the Des Moines Register how a total of 484 eligible caucus attendees were initially recorded at Ames.
Yet when each candidates preference group was counted, Clinton had 240 supporters, Sanders had 179, and Martin OMalley had five and was declared out.
Those figures added up to just 424 participants, leaving 60 apparently missing. The numbers were plugged into a formula that determines delegate allocations, with Clinton receiving four delegates and Sanders three leaving one delegate unassigned.
Read more: http://usuncut.com/politics/hillary-clinton-won-6-out-of-6-coin-tosses/
Amazing world we live in.....