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2016 Postmortem

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Tue May 24, 2016, 05:32 PM May 2016

Nate Silver gets his snark on

@NateSilver538
The system is rigged in favor of the candidate who's won 3 million more votes. Unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/735152840260358145

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Nate Silver gets his snark on (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2016 OP

That is a stupid statement. Skwmom May 2016 #1

Because it's a fact? Dem2 May 2016 #2

not logical Eric J in MN May 2016 #3

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)

1. That is a stupid statement.

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue May 24, 2016, 06:56 PM

May 2016

Dem2

(8,168 posts)

2. Because it's a fact?

Reply to Skwmom (Reply #1)

Tue May 24, 2016, 07:16 PM

May 2016

Or because you don't want to hear it?

Eric J in MN

(35,619 posts)

3. not logical

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue May 24, 2016, 07:18 PM

May 2016

Firstly, every citizen should want an accurate count in Kentucky, and it's ridiculous to attack Sanders for requesting a re-canvass.

Secondly, rigging an election usually results in getting more votes. It's not logical to say: HRC has more votes so the election wasn't rigged. Maybe open primaries wouldn't have changed much. But to people who think open primaries in other states would have caused Sanders to do much better, you can't say that Clinton's lead proves it wouldn't.

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