Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race, and I’ll Prove It to You
Assistant Professor of English at University of New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race, and I’ll Prove It to You
03/23/2016 09:33 am ET
Nobody cares how well a politician does at the ballot box when he or she is running for an office unopposed. What matters is how a politician performs in contested primaries and general elections, as when it really matters — like it will, for instance, this November — you can be certain of a contested election.
With that said, let’s make an important observation: Bernie Sanders has tied or beaten Hillary Clinton in a majority of the actively contested votes this election season.
You doubt it? Okay, let me explain.
Bernie Sanders has terrible name recognition in states where he hasn’t advertised or campaigned yet; meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has universal name recognition everywhere. Realizing this, the Clinton camp pushed hard to rack up the early vote in every state where early voting was an option. They did this not primarily for the reason we’ve been told — because Clinton performs well among older voters, and older voters are more likely to vote early than other age demographics — but rather because they knew that early votes are almost always cast before the election season actually begins in a given state.
That’s right — in each state, most of the early primary voting occurs before the candidates have aired any commercials or held any campaign events. For Bernie Sanders, this means that early voting happens, pretty much everywhere, before anyone knows who he is. Certainly, early voting occurs in each state before voters have developed a sufficient level of familiarity and comfort with Sanders to vote for him.
But on Election Day — among voters who’ve been present and attentive for each candidate’s commercials, local news coverage, and live events — Sanders tends to tie or beat Clinton.
In fact, that’s the real reason Sanders does well in caucuses.
It’s not because caucuses “require a real time investment,” as the media likes to euphemistically say, but because caucuses require that you vote on Election Day rather than well before it.
Consider: in North Carolina, Hillary Clinton only won Election Day voting 52% to 48%. Given the shenanigans in evidence during the live voting there — thousands of college students were turned away from the polls due to insufficient identification under a new voter-suppression statute in the state — it wouldn’t be unfair to call that 4-point race more like a 2-point one (51% to 49% for Clinton).
Consider: on Super Tuesday 3, because early voting is always reported first, Clinton’s margins of victory were originally believed to be 25 points in Missouri, 30 points in Illinois, and 30 points in Ohio. Missouri, which doesn’t have conventional early voting, ended up a tie. Illinois ended up with a 1.8% margin for Clinton (after being a 42-point race in Clinton’s favor just a week earlier) and Ohio a 13.8% margin.
Any one of us could do the math there. And yet the media never did.
Consider: in Arizona yesterday, the election was called almost immediately by the media, with Clinton appearing to “win” the state by a margin of 61.5% to 36.1%. Of course, this was all early voting. CNN even wrongly reported that these early votes constituted the live vote in 41% of all Arizona precincts........
Read the rest, there is MUCH more covered to prove the point~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/sanders-currently-winning-democratic-primary-race-ill-prove-to-you_b_9528076.html
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.......editing to add an important point~
The fact that early voting statutes and media reporting of elections in America favors the maintenance of the illusion that Hillary remains popular when voters become familiar with other credible options does not excuse ignorance of the reality; certainly, it won’t help Democrats in November............
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Lizzie!!!Ostrich Army Rapid Response Unit...
Cuz I can't see them 
But the last two weeks or so, they are popping up....I guess some who were in hiding? 
Ear to theground, as it were...
Okay, and also to fuck with 'em. 
I edited the quote for space, but it's a doozy.
Here it is, in all of it's glory:
"Hillary does not, outside the deep-red Deep South, do particularly well among voters when they’re given any other reasonable alternative."
OUCH - that has to BERN!
The Corporate Owned Media.
"In 1982, when I completed research for my book, The Media Monopoly, 50 corporations controlled half or more of the media business. By December 1986, when I finished a revision for a second edition, the 50 had shrunk to 29. When the latest edition was published in 1993, the number was down to 20. A number of serious Wall Street media analysts are predicting that by the 1990s, a half-dozen giant firms will control most of our media.
"In the process, the usual democratic expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of American readers and viewers."
-- Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly, 1993
Control the message.
Control the message.
When even Rachel has turned, you know its working like a charm!
The pic above is Hillary with News Corp(Fox, WSJ, etc see above) Rupert Murdoch.
Here's a pic with Kissinger (they really do look alike!)~
So, even though every attempt has been made to congratulate Hillary before ALL of the votes are counted, be sure and vote this November.
The Democratic party in Idaho didn't even send out postcards to registered Democrats to inform them where their caucus was going to be held last night.
Normally, I get a postcard 2 weeks in advance with the address and time to show up printed on it so I can change my schedule in order to attend.
However, just as bad as that, the Republican party in Idaho put up billboards across the state last month saying that the primary was going to be held on March 8th . . . yet, in fact, only the Republican's primary was going to be held on that day!
It took the Democratic party in Idaho 2 weeks to get the Republican Attorney General to change those billboards, making them more informative, by having a small banner pasted across the bottom of the billboard announcing that the Republicans will be holding their primary on March 8th, and announcing that the Democrats will hold their caucus on March 22nd.
I've never seen such a coordinated misinformation campaign in my entire life!!
Yet, we Democrats turned out last night and set a new record for the largest Democratic caucus in history!!
Thanks for the thread, RiverLover. 
