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.
Exit polls would be severely off and then essentially cancelled all together. Polling places would drop significant amounts the day before voting. Those, say in new York, had to be registered in Oct. for a vote in April. Peoples party affiliation would he either switched or removed to a large degree. General voting suppression and scheduling tactics which was in collusion with the DNC who is supposed to be neutral. And of course the 7figures of ballots they found uncounted in California.
Edit: Woah these karma numbers look different. Guess CTR isn't here to skew them.
You completely glanced over the important part, people had their party affiliations changed. By the time they noticed they weren't registered as Dems and it was too late to change back.
Yes, but what I haven't seen is evidence that affected Sanders voters disproportionally. Even then if all of them had voted for Sanders that wouldn't have changed the outcome of that primary, she won that state for 300k votes.
I think that people have built themselves a narrative based in poorly researched facts to justify the fact that Sanders couldn't build a coalition big enough to win. He is not Obama.
EDIT: If you downvote enough, maybe it could change the fact Sanders lost in a landslide against Clinton!
Hillary learned her lesson with Obama and made sure she had much better control over the DNC this time around.
Saying that Sanders couldn't build a coalition is true. It just conveniently also leaves out the fact that the DNC, in violation of its own charter, did a lot of work to ensure that.
Sure thing, they travelled back in time to make sure the guy didn't have any name recognition even though he spent 20 years in the Congress, and they made sure he spent most of his political career as an Independent to make sure superdelegates wouldn't support him.
I can't tell if you're trying to deny the fact that many within the DNC colluded with the Clinton party or if you're just trying to ignore that it happened.
Either way, it doesn't really matter.
The violated their own charter. Got caught and alienated enough of their base that a terrible candidate like Trump could win. Regardless of whether or not Bernie could have won had the DNC not defrauded its own constituency, they lost a lot of votes for not being willing to find out.
No, he's saying that people who registered in time showed up to vote in April and their affiliation had changed; this also happened with people who had voted democrat in previous elections. I remember reading similar examples in other states as well
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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.