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In reply to the discussion: The mismatch between crowds and vote totals is reaching the "something rotten in Denmark" level. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)168. Explains all the insulting. It doesn't matter if you win over the Bernie supporters.
Your side has "that" taken care of. Thanks!
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The mismatch between crowds and vote totals is reaching the "something rotten in Denmark" level. [View all]
reformist2
Jun 2016
OP
Explains all the insulting. It doesn't matter if you win over the Bernie supporters.
Octafish
Jun 2016
#168
Read this article from NPR which will squash your attempt at a fraud conspiracy
LonePirate
Jun 2016
#4
It said absolutely nothing about election fraud, which is what I maintain has happened.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#35
So reject them if you want. You can go to your grave denying reality if you want. The rest of us
upaloopa
Jun 2016
#56
Nice try, but no cigar. At least you see the discrepancy, and are trying to rationalize it.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#138
I was going to write a long reply but nah...just say it's rigged ...the votes have been
bkkyosemite
Jun 2016
#53
What else in life do you react to like that? At some point it has to hit you that you are lying to
upaloopa
Jun 2016
#61
What else in life do you just accept without question when there is evidence of it having happened
cui bono
Jun 2016
#93
Familiar With The "Electronic Vote Flipping" Here In Florida I Even Saw It Flipped In One County
CorporatistNation
Jun 2016
#84
That's still 1.4%! You know what's an even smaller number? Hillary's 0.02% turnout rate.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#142
And the rigging depends on everyone being afraid to state the obvious - that it's all a sham.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#161
I've been out of state for work every time Clinton has been in my area. Otherwise, I'd go to one.
BobbyDrake
Jun 2016
#109
"Hillary voters are seemingly more adept at networking and connecting via social media ..."
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#174
They really have no choice but to try to pass that explanation off with a straight face. The crowds
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#17
Indeed, huge enthusiastic crowds at rallies don't "count" when it comes to vote totals.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#135
It's tough for people to admit, that we are dealing with rigged votes as bad as the Soviet Union.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#147
The new meme is that unless all Bernie voters (all of them) show up at the rallies then the
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#193
you're aware of the exit poll discrepancy for Bernie versus Hillary this year?
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#103
No, what defies logic is that the TC thinks voting is restricted to rally participants.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#139
And yet for Hillary's events, nobody can be bothered to show up. How do you reconcile that
reformist2
Jun 2016
#160
It only seems that way if you think every voter gives a damn about a stupid rally.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#27
You just need to do the math. Add up all the people who attend a rally in a given state,
eastwestdem
Jun 2016
#28
Odd that they only seem to 'lack the maturity to wait in line" in states with closed primaries.
Marr
Jun 2016
#215
Well I hope in the coming years when things change for the better you will look back on these days
upaloopa
Jun 2016
#64
Wow, the crazy is on full throttle isn't it? VOTES matter, not going to rallies. Get sane will you.
RBInMaine
Jun 2016
#38
Amusing when someone with a visible Transparency page, thanks to 5 hidden posts in 90 days,
Nye Bevan
Jun 2016
#44
You were probably on the lopsided juries for posts of mine that didn't deserve "hides"
Ned_Devine
Jun 2016
#46
I know, so unfair when brilliantly insightful and erudite posts like this one get hidden.
Nye Bevan
Jun 2016
#48
Worth noting, the person they were replying to has a transparency page nearly 3x the size
Electric Monk
Jun 2016
#58
Our responses? What are we supposed to say in response to a reality denying conspiracy theory?
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#54
It's remarkable how few Hillary supporters I know IRL (and other places online).
Lizzie Poppet
Jun 2016
#74
Merely because you don't personally know people, doesn't mean they don't exist
treestar
Jun 2016
#133
Lots of the same folks going to all his rallies if they are wishing 100 miles of each other. nt
Jitter65
Jun 2016
#41
What's rotten is the under-reporting of these amazing record breaking crowds!
floppyboo
Jun 2016
#42
Think college campuses and shameless pandering. For there you will find your answer.
Trust Buster
Jun 2016
#52
She's the candidate of the Establishment which has worked to be a metropolitan party
HereSince1628
Jun 2016
#91
It's hard to cheat in precincts where 500 ballots are counted by hand. Big city voting machines....
reformist2
Jun 2016
#134
"Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio"
BzaDem
Jun 2016
#72
How about New Hampshire 2008? Obama drew huge crowds but Hillary won the primary.
StevieM
Jun 2016
#76
yes, but do you really think these people aren't voting for him in the primary?
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#98
most of the people I've seen in his crowds are much older than college age
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#179
I'm sure Hillary Clinton would have said exactly the same thing in 2008
Algernon Moncrieff
Jun 2016
#192
Down with Hillary! It's all lie! A million's less than a thousand beheld by eye!
tandem5
Jun 2016
#88
I'm with you. It is unbelievable. Literally. And exit polls don't match results either.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#92
And the spinners say that exit polls are unreliable. . . NO! Throughtout the history
pdsimdars
Jun 2016
#96
No, the best indicator of how the election is going is how people actually vote.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#149
I can remember when the media wouldn't talk about exit polls because they "gave away" the result!
reformist2
Jun 2016
#165
No. What's literally unbelievable is that people think crowd size indicates how the voting will go.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#158
And their notion that Bernie supporters go to the rallies just for the rush and then don't vote . .
pdsimdars
Jun 2016
#95
Of course they vote just not in the numbers that defeat HRC, look... Divine and Weaver ADMITTED they
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#117
I really really do not understand this, and it's been bugging me for a while
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#99
I really doubt there's NO correlation, but it's probably not a strict linear correlation
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#175
That's a common argument, but most corporations are massive conspiracies protecting lies.
reformist2
Jun 2016
#136
We should choose our nominees using an aerial headcount of people attending public rallies.
Skinner
Jun 2016
#129
It's sad to see people on the left resorting to the old Tea Party trick of exaggerating crowd sizes.
Lord Magus
Jun 2016
#150
This year, my wife and I attended campaign events of all 3 candidates days before the Iowa Caucus.
stone space
Jun 2016
#167
As long as counting is involved. Better than going on the strength of shouting Yeas and Nays.
Hiraeth
Jun 2016
#189
Here's a question-- why is it exactly that Clinton has no large rallies at all?
Fast Walker 52
Jun 2016
#177
LOL, what's rotten is the ridiculous crowd inflation aka massive overreporting of numbers.
ucrdem
Jun 2016
#182
I haven't seen a police estimate of any crowd above 30K anywhere. But hyperbole
pnwmom
Jun 2016
#184
Even the police estimates. In Oakland for example an article with a 20,000 OPD tweet
ucrdem
Jun 2016
#186
The entire DNC infrastructure is dedicated to ramming Hillary in as the nominee. Why wouldn't
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#195
Reports from those who try to go to Hillary's mini rallies say they are like Studio 54
GreatGazoo
Jun 2016
#219