Conspiracy-loving Bernie Sanders Redditors work to uncover the Real Iowa Winner

[brooklynite]

Washington Post:

Democratic elections, even at their most transparent and even when best facilitated, lend themselves to conspiracy theories. There are all sorts of points at which one can introduce doubt, if one is so inclined: Who turned out, how the vote was tallied, how the vote was conducted, how the results were reported. So on. So forth.

When an election is instead conducted with a certain level of opaqueness or an unusual amount of complexity, and when that election ends in something close to a tie, an assumption that something untoward happened is all but inevitable. And when that happens during a political campaign in which one candidate has a massive amount of support on the conspiracy Petri dish that is Reddit -- well...

In the wake of Iowa's caucuses last week, some fans of Donald Trump first suggested that Microsoft threw the race to help Marco Rubio. Later, Trump himself implied that he came in second because Ted Cruz cheated. Each of these is easily dismissed, should one wish to accede to rationality.

On the Democratic side, though, the race was much closer.

[beam me up scottie]

1. Another anything but the issues thread.

[berniepdx420]

3. +420 Their desperation is tactile

[Sheepshank]

11. cut the bull, your own crowd is not on your holier than thou "substantive/issues" pretend agenda

all this, and more just from one thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1208009
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1208158
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1207822
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1207837

[beam me up scottie]

13. *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

[Sheepshank]

16. so then we agree, this type of comment is without any substance and you'll refrain in the future?

Or probably not.

[m-lekktor]

14. we should post nothing but threads about Hillary supporters 24/7!

[beam me up scottie]

15. It's like they don't even have a candidate.

Every single thread is either a hit piece on Bernie or his supporters. Are there really no positive articles about Hillary?

[Sheepshank]

18. Cut the bullcrap. Have you look at the front page of DUP lately?

talk about hit pieces. Non substantive hit pieces against Hillary at a rate of 10:1 for negative hit pieces against Bernie. And no, they are not predominantly about issues.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Does anyone else hear an angry buzzing sound? Must be a gnat or something.

[Sheepshank]

20. That particular bug was zapped n/t

[NowSam]

2. Ugly

To label someone who has questions about a really close election as a conspiracy theorist which these days means crazy.

It is not crazy to have these doubts. Those who are hanging this label on doubters are schoolyard bullies. They are attempting to intimate and it isn't working but it does reveal much about the bullies.

[KingFlorez]

4. Of course, anything but a landslide win for Sanders is clearly fraud

[earthshine]

10. Your comment is sarcastic and pointless.

Close elections need to be scrutinized.

[Sheepshank]

12. yeah. Take cameras to the polls a BS supporter suggested. Was that you? n/t

[earthshine]

21. More noise on this thread.

Your comment is sarcastic, pointless, and irrelevant.

[earthshine]

24. Please continue with your ambiguous, vacuous, sarcasm. You make a fool of yourself for all to see.

[bettyellen]

5. "the conspiracy Petri dish that is Reddit" HA, true.

[Matt_in_STL]

6. I know. I remember all those conspiracies in 2000 when Democrats just wouldn't accept Bush's win.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. That term and slur , CT was invented and promoted by the CIA

In the 60s when people started looking at the facts and data of the Warren commission............. geez........... don't question authority citizen

[Matt_in_STL]

9. Exactly

Accept what your told and move on. Nothing to see here.

[think]

7. Des Moines Register calls for audit of Iowa results: 'Something smells in the Democratic Party'

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/des-moines-register-audit-iowa-results-218731

Hmm... I wonder where those "conspiracy lovers" got the idea something might be wrong with the results of the Democratic primary in Iowa...

[Attorney in Texas]

17. FIXED IT: Democracy-loving Bernie Sanders Redditors work to uncover the Real Iowa Winner

[Alfresco]

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