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2016 Postmortem

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts) Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:16 PM Apr 2016

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Huffington Post's "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment

https://www.google.com/search?q=huffington+post+sanders+ct&oq=huffington+post+sanders+ct&aqs=chrome..69i57.6792j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Huffington Post's "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment (Original Post) Nye Bevan Apr 2016 OP

It's a big ol' 404 now! Mwuhaha! nt IamMab Apr 2016 #1

Whoops... Maybe. Agschmid Apr 2016 #2

It was such a terrible call too... SaschaHM Apr 2016 #3

Jimmy Carter and Mo Udall had a similar moment in 1976 courtesy of the Milwaukee Sentinel StevieM Apr 2016 #4

IamMab

(1,359 posts)

1. It's a big ol' 404 now! Mwuhaha! nt

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:18 PM

Apr 2016

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

2. Whoops... Maybe.

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:19 PM

Apr 2016

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)

3. It was such a terrible call too...

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:20 PM

Apr 2016

Sanders could still win, but you don't call extremely close elections when the largest cities are out, period.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)

4. Jimmy Carter and Mo Udall had a similar moment in 1976 courtesy of the Milwaukee Sentinel

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:39 PM

Apr 2016

Here is a link to the story.

http://www.jsonline.com/greensheet/when-jimmy-carter-lost-the-wisconsin-primary--1976-b99687539z1-373144611.html

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