Does anyone else remember Detroit Free Press paper calling state for Hillary election night?

[adigal]

Last edited Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:06 PM - Edit history (1)

I was thinking of that today and I'm pretty sure I saw headlines that the paper had called the state for Hillary. Then it just went away. I'm not saying there was a CT or anything, but it is just odd.

[triron]

1. Have no idea

but if true perhaps because of exit polls which showed her winning by about 4% I believe.

[SoCalNative]

2. Yes, well...

[adigal]

9. That's a false equivalence, comparing 2016 to 1940s technology

Nice try, though.

[Chitown Kev]

10. and that was a national election call

...not the calling of one state

[Chitown Kev]

3. It wasn't Wisconsin, it was Michigan

The Detroit Free Press called Michigan for Hillary at 9:18 pm Election Night

http://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2016/11/09/breaking-bad-freep-called-michigan-for-clinton-at-918-pm

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[adigal]

8. Yes, thank you!! I'll fix my opening nt

[putitinD]

4. yes, it was Michigan, and Hillary did win MI, if they would have counted the other 75k votes

from Detroit and Flint. But the Republican machine that runs Michigan stopped them from being counted. Michigan uses paper ballots that are machine counted. They had problems with the machines jamming that read the ballots. They could have hand counted them.

[former9thward]

5. All the votes were counted.

The rest is CT stuff. BTW, news flash, the Democratic Party runs elections in Detroit and Flint not the Republicans.

[putitinD]

6. the judges that ordered the halt of the counting are REPUBLICAN

[former9thward]

7. The Democratic Party ran the elections.

From start to finish. Don't try and confuse people with the later re-count.

[dionysus]

11. All this tin foil shit is embarrassing. DU has blamed cheating for every loss we've had in the 16 ye

I've been a DUer. An observer would say what a bunch of fuckin crybabies, they can never admit they lost an election. Accorsing to DU, we win 100% of our elections.

Now, i'm not discounting voter suppression efforts, gerrymandering, ect. But for the GOP to pull off what is alleged would require such a large conspiracy there's no way everyone would keep their mouths shut, and it doesn't explain why they would be able tonsteal every election but then just happen to allow obama to win twice in a row...