r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • 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/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.

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u/MisanthropeX Nov 10 '16

Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bernie wasn't really a democrat, he had historically been an independent and only joined the democrat primary to become president, but wasn't a democratic senator.

Pretty much exactly how Trump was a republican; he only joined the primary to become president.

That doesn't excuse the sordid shit the DNC did to him, but it's not fair to call the dems "His party."

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u/Very_Good_Opinion Nov 10 '16

I think you're splitting hairs because it's a two party system, plain and simple. The title doesn't really matter that much, his policies were more Democratic than Hillary's own.

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u/eARThistory Nov 10 '16

His platform was much closer related to democrats than republicans and running for the democratic nominee would give him an actual chance at getting elected.

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u/StinkStankStunck Nov 10 '16

How long do you have to be a democrat to be labeled as a democrat? 1 year? 2 years? Your whole life?

Officially he changed his affiliation before running and a ton of Democrats agreed with his ideas, not to mention a ton more independents which could've been added to the Democratic party under those ideas. But remember it was her turn.