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Hillary Clinton keeps losing. So how come she's winning?
LA Times ^ | 5/16/2016 | Mark Z. Barabak

Posted on 05/16/2016 7:28:44 PM PDT by GilGil

Bernie Sanders is on a roll. He's won the last two Democratic primaries and stands a good chance Tuesday of adding Oregon and perhaps Kentucky to his pile of victories.

Yet Hillary Clinton is likely to continue her seemingly unstoppable march to the party's presidential nomination.

How can that be?

It's not a conspiracy, as some angry Sanders backers suggest, a result of dark magic or a wrinkle in the time-space continuum. Rather, it's the rules that Democrats play by -- rules that now work to Clinton's advantage, even as they thwarted her candidacy eight years ago, when she lost a nominating fight to then-Sen. Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; 2016election; berniethreefifthers; blackmail; clinton; corruption; election; election2016; feelthebern; hillary2016; newyork; superdelegates; trump
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"Rather, it's the rules that Democrats play by -- rules that now work to Clinton's advantage."

In other words the game is rigged and it does not matter what Sanders wins. In Washington state Sanders won 73% to Hillary's 27% but Hillary gets half the delegates.

The democrats are so miscalculating this on an epic scale disenfranchising at least half the democrat voters. The establishment democrat message to the voters is that they are fools and do not matter at all. If they do not do what they are told, they will be whipped into line. Great message. This is backfiring on a biblical scale!

1 posted on 05/16/2016 7:28:44 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

At some point the DNC will force Hillary to offer Sanders the VP Slot...

He will take it after Hillary promises him wide ranging powers to go after Wall Street..


2 posted on 05/16/2016 7:31:22 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: GilGil

Trump is telling the truth, it’s rigged. Super delegates, they are called.


3 posted on 05/16/2016 7:32:49 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Popman

Two old white people. That is the model of diversity.


4 posted on 05/16/2016 7:33:12 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president


5 posted on 05/16/2016 7:34:28 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Popman

I think the problem is that the DNC does not want Sanders to be president. If Hillary chooses him as the VP and then if she *cough* *cough* has to leave the race ... then her VP choice pretty much has to be the follow-on nominee. The DNC does not want that.

Hillary will hold off on any VP talk until she has no choice. In the meantime, if something — you know — forced her out the race, Joe Biden would be chosen as the replacement.


6 posted on 05/16/2016 7:34:38 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: GilGil

-—Two old white people. That is the model of diversity.-—

Libtards only care about diversity when they can accuse conservatives of not practicing it...


7 posted on 05/16/2016 7:35:51 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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-—Hillary will hold off on any VP talk until she has no choice. In the meantime, if something — you know — forced her out the race, Joe Biden would be chosen as the replacement.——

That’s plausable, the Bernouts can easy vote for Biden...


8 posted on 05/16/2016 7:38:30 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: GilGil

Heads I win...Tails you lose! You give a 500 point delegate count to the nominee of your choice, then you split the delegate count 50/50 in every state. There is no way path to victory for the Burn Baby!


9 posted on 05/16/2016 7:39:22 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: GilGil

Because Satan helps his own...


10 posted on 05/16/2016 7:39:23 PM PDT by heights
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To: GilGil

Same reason why Bill Clinton can take 26 plane rides with a pedophile and NO ONE in the media says a peep about it..because they are the Clintons, they have gotten away with EVERYTHING, including murder, so why should this make any difference


11 posted on 05/16/2016 7:40:08 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ClearCase_guy

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/16/the-coming-democratic-crackup/


12 posted on 05/16/2016 7:41:54 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: GilGil

If Bernie Sanders wanted to get votes from the super delegates, he should have gotten government files on them in the nineties.
It’s his own lazy fault.


13 posted on 05/16/2016 7:45:30 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: GilGil

“Two old white people. That is the model of diversity.”

They already put their articulate negro in. Twice. First negro President prize.

They can do no wrong as they put their woman in. Probably twice. First woman President prize.

Losers vote for these prizes.


14 posted on 05/16/2016 7:48:11 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is, but now opposing Hillary for Trump.)
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To: Bogie

The 2016 election process to date has removed any doubt that both the DNC and RNC have little interest in what the voters want.

No big deal...plenty of precedent....just look at the old USSR elections....give the voters a choice? What?! You crazy?!


15 posted on 05/16/2016 7:51:01 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (All change is progress.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Here's my 2 centavos. As it becomes clear that Hillary is likely to lose, Bill's health will appear to decline and the very loving Hillary will decide to end her pursuit of the Presidency in order to provide loving care to her wondrous husband. <> "Ah know ah was a gonna win, but my po dear husban is so much mo impotent." Right after the announcement is made, Bill will slip out the back to a waiting slut's car.
16 posted on 05/16/2016 7:57:04 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: ClearCase_guy
In the meantime, if something — you know — forced her out the race, Joe Biden would be chosen as the replacement.

You are, of course, referring to Obama's Plan B(iden).

17 posted on 05/16/2016 7:57:42 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Still a Cruz Fan but voting for Trump)
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To: OldArmy52
What you say rings a bell for me. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn predicted the loss of America's freedom, in an address, decades ago.

He knew Stalin better than many.

18 posted on 05/16/2016 8:13:30 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Popman

It sounds like Hillary needs to offer the VP to Cruz since they both use the same playbook to gather delegates


19 posted on 05/16/2016 8:25:15 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: GilGil

Don’t Bernie supporters understand that they’re only three-fifths of a person?


20 posted on 05/16/2016 8:25:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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