IceSpear
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2016, 03:09:42 PM » |
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I love how they assume every single person in line was a Bernie supporter, ignoring the fact that Hillary supporters are a thing and there was a much higher turnout GOP primary happening simultaneously.
I also remember the "why are they calling it with only 1% in?!" conspiracy theory. The problem is that there wasn't 1% in, there was like 200k votes in by that point. So unless they think there were 20 million votes cast in the Democratic primary of a state with a total population of ~7 million...
The whole "1% in" thing is just news organizations having no idea how to actually quantify the early vote, so they just ignore it completely. The same thing happened in Ohio and Florida last week. Of course, it's much easier to whine on Reddit and cry about conspiracy theories than educate yourself and actually look up raw vote totals from past elections...
As for long lines, yeah, it sucks. But that's the US for you. I don't recall hearing complaints from Reddit about the massive lines and people having to wait forever at their caucus locations in Idaho. Maybe because Bernie won the state by 60 points? Couldn't be...
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