2016 Postmortem

Chan790

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33. Oh...they're both virtual ties. As was IA.

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:45 PM

Mar 2016

It's really stupid to call any of them a win for anybody. They're not moving the needle either way for Sanders or Clinton and at the convention, the delegates will offset sufficiently as to have no real impact on the outcome.

The only reason we have any attention to who wins a functional tie in a proportional primary is because ties in politics, like ties in sports, make for bad TV. Let's all stop feeding the media stupidity and call them what they are: ties and non-decisive wins where the assigned delegate-gain is less than a handful and has no clear impact. (If IA yesterday didn't show that...Clinton "won" the caucus...and lost the delegate vote in Mercer Co. yesterday, likely flipping the outcome statewide.)

Winner-take-alls are different, but proportional contests can be and often are ties, actual or functional.

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Hopefully Hillary increases her lead to 250 - 300 tomorrow [View all] hill2016 Mar 2016 OP

That's very likely ... NurseJackie Mar 2016 #1

Infantile post. HERVEPA Mar 2016 #3

I don't want to ruin your excitement SheenaR Mar 2016 #5

since when have the pundits been right yet. She was supposed to obliterate him in Michigan roguevalley Mar 2016 #11

...and instead he got a "virtual tie" (remember when that's what folks called Massachusetts?) brooklynite Mar 2016 #18

Oh...they're both virtual ties. As was IA. Chan790 Mar 2016 #33

Say three states are "virtual ties" and FL and NC go big for Clinton CajunBlazer Mar 2016 #35

Easily.. more likely around 320 after tomorrow. DCBob Mar 2016 #2

Ayyyy SheenaR Mar 2016 #6

No.. but wins FL and NC big. DCBob Mar 2016 #8

I got ya SheenaR Mar 2016 #9

You may be right about NC. DCBob Mar 2016 #10

Can I quote you on that? 70-30. That's your prediction? Barack_America Mar 2016 #25

Well close to it.. DCBob Mar 2016 #29

I'm also giving her Ohio by a narrow margin brooklynite Mar 2016 #19

Yes. We'll see tomorrow... revbones Mar 2016 #4

Congrats on 1,000 posts! bigwillq Mar 2016 #28

Yes, it's going to be a very exciting and hopefully successful day for the Secretary! MoonRiver Mar 2016 #7

Won't happen. I think it will be on the order of 20-30. morningfog Mar 2016 #12

Something like that could happen; it would be a disaster of epic proportions Ron Green Mar 2016 #13

Well, that's one opinion heard from CajunBlazer Mar 2016 #36

Do you guys clap and cheer at your tv when Hillary name drops Henry Kissinger or quietly cringe? Carlo Marx Mar 2016 #14

Do you see RED when you read a pro-Hillary post? :-) Alfresco Mar 2016 #20

I see red, like gop red. Nt Logical Mar 2016 #24

I imagine republicans do too. Alfresco Mar 2016 #26

You will understand I hope quite the opposite. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #15

She will. The press will be describing her lead as insurmountable putting added pressure on the BS. Alfresco Mar 2016 #16

Such added pressure on the campaign will be reflected here proportionately as well. NurseJackie Mar 2016 #21

Yep, won't be long now. :-) Alfresco Mar 2016 #32

Hopefully, you will discover Wednesday that you "misspoke". Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #17

Wanna bet? CajunBlazer Mar 2016 #37

Hopefully we go forward with the most electable candidate. GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #22

Lol, what was the point of this post?? Random thougts? Nt Logical Mar 2016 #23

Day dreaming/wishful thinking mathewsleep Mar 2016 #27

It's all a football game to you, isn't it? n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #30

It really does come down to the math CajunBlazer Mar 2016 #38

i assure you Sanders and his team hill2016 Mar 2016 #39

Oh, hopefully she will not. highprincipleswork Mar 2016 #31

or not oldandhappy Mar 2016 #34