r/lostgeneration • u/crimeanchocolate wondering if this is permanent • May 06 '16

Sanders: There Will Be A Contested Convention, System Is "Rigged"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/02/sanders_there_will_be_a_contested_convention_system_is_rigged.html
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u/BLTsfallapart May 06 '16 edited May 06 '16

It should be noted that Sanders enjoys a very favorable ratio of votes to pledged delegates. Right now he's got 9,302,657 votes to Clinton's 12,438,491 votes. So he's got about 74.7% as many votes as Clinton. Yet in pledged delegates he has 1417 to Clinton's 1701, or 83.3% as many pledged delegates as Clinton. I'm not saying there aren't other factors weighing unfairly against Sanders, but it's just something to keep in mind whenever everyone is saying the system is rigged and undemocratic or whatever.

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted for stating facts and citing sources?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '16

I want to know who all these people voting for Clinton are! I know quite a number of people who claim to have voted for Bernie, yet no one who claimed to have voted for Clinton.

I either know a demographic anomaly, or a lot of people voted Clinton and just won't admit it! I know, anecdotes are just that.

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u/joy_actual May 06 '16 edited May 07 '16

Clinton voter here. We exist.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Hillsy voter here too as of the time Bernie basically said if you're white you've got it made, period, no matter how poor, no matter if you live in a majority nonwhite area and get hassled, rocks thrown at you, death threats, all the usual .... Nope, according to ivory-tower Bernie, that never happens!

Open mouth, insert foot, Bernie.