Coin-Toss Fact Check: No, Coin Flips Did Not Win Iowa For Hillary Clinton [View all]
Source: NPR
It's been reported that there were as many as six sites where ties were decided by the flip of a coin — and Clinton won every single one. The odds of that happening are 1 in 64, or less than 2 percent. What's more, that gave her just slightly more than her margin of victory over Sanders — four delegates. Things that make you go hmm. Indeed.
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Except that doesn't tell the whole story. In fact, there were at least a dozen tiebreakers — and "Sen. Sanders won at least a handful," an Iowa Democratic Party official told NPR.
Gone unmentioned so far is that even if Clinton won that Miracle Six — and there were no other coin tosses — it would make little difference in the outcome. That is, in part, because of the complicated way Iowa Democrats allocate their delegates — and what was being reported on election night and what wasn't.
Let's step back and explain that for a second; and this is tricky, so stay with us.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
Interesting take.
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