Was the Indiana primary rigged?

[realmirage]

Considering that whenever the polls get it wrong, the shouts of "it was rigged!" Are rampant here, I guess we have to ask- was this one rigged? Should it be thrown out?

[firebrand80]

1. Nope, smooth sailing nt

[morningfog]

2. Make your case. What's you theory, evidence, etc.?

[JaneyVee]

7. Exit polls are what the Bernie crowd always presents as evidence.

Why the double standard?

[baldguy]

8. Since when is evidence required?

None of the CTs involving Clinton have needed any to be endlessly repeated & accepted by Bernie fans.

[KittyWampus]

15. LOL! When Sanders wins it's fair. When he loses, it's cheating.

That's the point.

[morningfog]

18. THe OP is flame bait. That's my point.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. I used to get smacked by my Dad for using this poster's theory...

"But Daaaad... she (she being my Sister) did it first!"

Smack!

[-none]

3. It was an open primary, so they could not doctor the voting lists to prevent people from voting.

So no, it was not rigged.

[Biaviians]

4. There was voter suppression.

Polls closed at 6pm. If you worked that day you couldn't vote.

[NurseJackie]

22. Just as it's always been. You'll have to take that up with the state... not the party.

Longer voting hours would have been nice. The polls closed at 6 for ALL voters, not just Bernie voters. At least they have early voting that a LOT of people participated in. Electing Democrats in down-ballot races will be a good first step in helping to gain strength in state politics and decision making.

[Biaviians]

27. Thank you for the input! I'm concerned about ALL voters.

[LiberalFighter]

37. But Chicago area and SW Indiana were able to vote until 7PM

[liberalnarb]

5. Proof?

Evidence is something usually involved in these kinds of things. Your OP seems to be lacking any.

[LonePirate]

6. It is interesting how DU never accuses an election of being rigged when Bernie wins.

Yet if he loses, the chorus of "the election is rigged" claims is deafening.

[liberalnarb]

9. That would be because anyone with the power to rig an election is a Hillary supporter.

[LonePirate]

10. Then explain AZ where Repubs control everything. Are they Clinton supporters?

[liberalnarb]

12. The repugs and the Clinton supporters are definitely the powerful ones.

[CobaltBlue]

32. A sufficient number of them are

[KittyWampus]

16. Right. So Obama had superDUPER power in 2008!

[liberalnarb]

31. Nope, same Hillary team now as then.

[KittyWampus]

35. Ah, so same Clinton team but Obama FOILED their dastardly plans...

It's all connected, man. Illuminati, aliens, the "Clinton Machine"

[grossproffit]

11. Touche

[BootinUp]

13. I say the following regardless which side is claiming elections are rigged

Do you have a serious proposal to improve the election process or are you just making noise?


If its the latter then:

STOP IT

STOP IT

STOP IT

Its bad for our democracy.

[WhiteTara]

14. Of course not. Didn't you see the winner?

Only if he is the loser is it rigged. Although he is suing the state because one polling place opened late.

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. "Tit for tat" = "I got nothin' and I'm simply stirring shit."

Stirring shit that's already been stirred a hundred times before.

How do you get the shit off of your spoon?

[George II]

19. But SANDERS won, so there are no "rigged", "conspiracy", "fraud" claims. Go figure.

[ViseGrip]

21. They only polled dems and indy's and repubs could vote for whomever.

Why do you only poll one party, when three parties can vote for your party candidate? This is why he wins in open primaries. Indy's go to Bernie, overwhelmingly. Some repubs. So if they are allowed to vote in the dem primary, why wouldn't you poll them????


They try to deflate Bernie, 'he's always losing'. Then you get a result like IN.

It's just party shenanigans. You can't manipulate a vote when three parties are voting in both primaries. So it's interesting Hillary win, where it's just dems voting, and all the caging, etc. So if it's the republicans who are doing the cheating as Hillary supporters say in NY, then it must be her, they want to run against.

[ContinentalOp]

28. Clinton has won more open primaries than Sanders.

[Adrahil]

23. Bernie won, so obviously fair!!!!

Of course, I think 95% of the "FRAUD!" claims are delusional bullshit. The other 5% are part of Republican efforts to suppress Democratic votes in general.

[GreatGazoo]

24. Logic is not your strong suit

If A then B does not mean if C then B.

Indiana shows what happens when there are no purges of Sanders voters

[Amaril]

25. Childish & pointless snark

Way to work on that unity thing.

[PeoViejo]

26. The only way Hillary could have won

would have been to flip enough votes to give Bernie a negative number of votes.

[realmirage]

29. The strong denials of BS supporters is convincing me it was rigged

It must have been rigged, how could the polls have been wrong?

[Trenzalore]

30. GOP rigged it to extend election nt.

[realmirage]

34. Absolutely. You convinced me

[seabeyond]

33. Amazing that, right? But, Sanders won, so crickets. I personally feel it is because open and 22% of

other than Democrats voted. But hey.... I guess we are entitled to yell.... Sanders stole. The way it works, just vlatant false accusations if Clinton wins.

[bobbobbins01]

36. Exit polling was off by 5.9%.

So yes, at the very least, I believe it should be investigated.