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2016 Postmortem

pinebox

(5,761 posts) Sun Jan 24, 2016, 02:47 PM Jan 2016

Bernie is out polling what Hillary actually got in South Carolina in 2008

Oh oh.....

Link here to HuffPo http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/polls/cbs-yougov-23570

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Bernie is out polling what Hillary actually got in South Carolina in 2008 (Original Post) pinebox Jan 2016 OP

This news article should be remembered while voting. highprincipleswork Jan 2016 #1

According to that, Hillary is at 60 % to Bernie's 38% n/t Lucinda Jan 2016 #2

Yeah I'm not sure I see the point of this post. JonLeibowitz Jan 2016 #3

Yep. I assume they didnt follow the link, and the twitter poster Lucinda Jan 2016 #4

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)

1. This news article should be remembered while voting.

Reply to pinebox (Original post)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 02:49 PM

Jan 2016

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/hillary-clinton-not-second-coming-harriet-tubman

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

2. According to that, Hillary is at 60 % to Bernie's 38% n/t

Reply to pinebox (Original post)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 02:54 PM

Jan 2016

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)

3. Yeah I'm not sure I see the point of this post.

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 03:01 PM

Jan 2016

Does the poster not realize that Barack Obama won in 2008 with 55% of the vote? So if you want to have a benchmark to favorably compare to, that would be Obama, not Clinton.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

4. Yep. I assume they didnt follow the link, and the twitter poster

Reply to JonLeibowitz (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 03:05 PM

Jan 2016

they were referencing was most likely just spinning to make things look good, since they referenced Sanders beating Hillary's number.

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