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Hillary: The Odds of Getting those Iowa Delegates

Posted by $ HarmonKaslow 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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I love this stuff ... statistics ... there were 6 coinflips for delegates and HRC won all of them ... reminded me of this scene from Dumb & Dumber: https://youtu.be/KX5jNnDMfxA


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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    True Db, but people amped up in primaries are not going to consider the cold hard truths of math.

    They will just maintain that they were cheated....no matter what.

    Considering the two sides in this dispute it's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago
    The six precincts decided by coin toss pales to insignificance when you find that after Sanders asked for the raw vote counts, he was informed those numbers were "missing" for 90 precincts!
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  • Posted by wmiranda 9 years, 2 months ago
    Wow! Maybe there's a chance she'll be an honest person some day.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 2 months ago
    Dear Reader, in a dictionary as yet never written by yours truly, the word TILT has a picture of Broom Hillary winking back at ya.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 2 months ago
    What interests me the most about this is that Bernie's Bots are not buying it. Things on the Marxist side of the aisle could get awfully amusing awfully quickly.
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  • Posted by $ dballing 9 years, 2 months ago
    Winning six coin tosses is a 1:64 chance. It's not astronomical in any way. It's unlikely but not egregiously so.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 2 months ago
    The problem is that the smell test isn't even possible. Just walking into the Democratic caucuses would overwhelm one's olfactory organs!

    For a great explanation on how manipulative the Democratic Caucus in Iowa is, check out this simple demo: http://cowboybyte.com/42548/how-a-cau...

    The game is rigged from the beginning.

    What was also interesting is that initially, Hillary instructed several of her delegates to side with Martin O'Malley to attempt to give him some legitimacy. When it turned out that she couldn't afford to lose the delegates, they had to switch back!
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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 2 months ago
    Bernie Sanders lost because the other side cheated better than he did. He's not even a good Socialist.
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  • Posted by awebb 9 years, 2 months ago
    Maybe we can just decide the whole presidential race with a coin toss... or better yet, a game of rock paper scissors!
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    Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago
    Hillary has always had amazing good luck.
    Remember that $100,000 profit on her cattle futures trades?
    "In a Fall 1994 paper for the Journal of Economics and Finance, economists from the University of North Florida and Auburn University investigated the odds of gaining a hundred-fold return in the cattle futures market during the period in question. Using a model that was stated to give the hypothetical investor the benefit of the doubt, they concluded that the odds of such a return happening were at best 1 in 31 trillion."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary...
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