[Magdalen] Election

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 2/10/16 8:04 AM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> ... Exit polls seem vindicated especially when the winner's margins are large.

https://thehornnews.com/10982-2/

Rigged! Hillary secretly STOLE New Hampshire

February 10, 2016 59 Comments

It’s the headline on every newspaper and website around the country: 
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won a resounding victory over former 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s New Hampshire 
Democratic primary.

But there’s another story the media has been much slower to pick up on.

Because despite his 22-point victory, Sanders didn’t walk away with the 
most New Hampshire delegates.

Clinton did. And party insiders have been secretly working for months to 
rig the delegate count in Clinton’s favor, no matter what the voters of 
New Hampshire decided.

Voters handed Sanders a blowout win yesterday. He received 60 percent of 
the votes, compared to 38 percent for Clinton.

But that only assured Sanders a majority of New Hampshire’s pledged 
delegates, 13 to Clinton’s 9.

But he still came up two short in the total count, because six New 
Hampshire superdelegates — party insiders from each state who can 
support any candidate of their choice — pledged their loyalty to Clinton.

In other words, despite losing by 22 points in votes, Clinton still 
managed to win the total delegate count in New Hampshire, 15-13. And 
it’s these delegates who decide who the Democratic presidential nominee 
will be, not majority vote.

This story isn’t limited to the Granite State either. All across the 
country, Clinton holds a massive lead in the overall delegate count due 
to the overwhelming support from these Democratic superdelegates.

Before a single voter had showed up at a caucus or a booth, Clinton had 
amassed 392 delegates to her side.

The magic number to clinch the nomination is 2,382. So with this 
guaranteed insider support, the Clinton campaign’s tie in Iowa and 
crushing defeat in New Hampshire matter little — she’s still at 431 
total delegates, 18% of the way to the party nomination and over eight 
times Sanders’ delegate count.

Ironically, exit polling in New Hampshire showed that Democratic 
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the support of about 9 in 10 
voters who thought honesty was important.

Should Clinton continue to have her way, such opinions — and the votes 
that they sway — may not matter much at all.

Thanks to years of insider work, Clinton is set to repeat her quiet New 
Hampshire victory again and again in 2016.


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