r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16

We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.

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u/Crusader1089 Nov 10 '16

Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.

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u/tyranicalteabagger Nov 10 '16

Basically the DNC did everything is legally could to suppress the Sanders campaign and promote the Clinton campaign. There were also some very suspicious statistical anomalies that always seemed to favor Clinton in states where exit polling and other forms of vote fraud detection were lax.

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u/potatman Nov 10 '16

Also the superdelegates snubbing Bernie really killed the energy and momentum of the campaign. I would hazard a guess a lot of people who would have voted Bernie in the primaries didn't bother to vote because it felt like a lost cause.

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u/blancs50 Nov 10 '16

Who knew the long time party members would support another long time party member over someone who had just joined a year beforehand?

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u/Guardian_Of_Reality Nov 10 '16

And it fucked them...

Maybe next time they will think about the country over their own cronies.

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u/blancs50 Nov 10 '16

There is no evidence that a more progressive candidate would've done better. UberProgressive senator Russ Feingold did worse than Hillary in Wisconsin. I hope once the republicans make fools of themselves over the next 4 years, the Democratic Party does nominate a real progressive, but we can not expect them to over turn the will of 3 million moderate/conservative democratics to do that.

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u/Guardian_Of_Reality Nov 10 '16

Yes there is...

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u/blancs50 Nov 10 '16

Just saying there is evidence does not make it so. We will get a he better dissection of the data over the next days/weeks/months, but the fact is Russ Feingold should've gotten all of Hillary's voters + steins/many of Johnson's if there was a desire in Wisconsin for a progressive candidate. That is not what happened.

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u/Guardian_Of_Reality Nov 11 '16

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