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Funtatlaguy

(10,870 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:49 PM Mar 2016

Wednesday morning quarterbacking.

If Jeff a Weaver had to do it over again, bet he would have done this differently.
Concentrate a lot more money and resources on Missouri and Illinois than the other three.
The media narrative and feeling in Bernies camp would be Soooo much different today if Bernie would have won those two states.
Argh!

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Wednesday morning quarterbacking. (Original Post) Funtatlaguy Mar 2016 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #1
I'm thinking it was just poll worker incompetence. HooptieWagon Mar 2016 #2
Yeah, that closet contained 540,000 unmarked ballots all of which would have gone to Sanders. LonePirate Mar 2016 #3
In Illinois, if you don't win Chicago, you lose. If you look at a map of Illinois, in_cog_ni_to Mar 2016 #4
Commuter delays hurt corbettkroehler Mar 2016 #5

Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
2. I'm thinking it was just poll worker incompetence.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:12 PM
Mar 2016

Polk County is pretty conservative, and probably not a likely place to steal an election. Also, Florida was already predicted to be heavily Clinton favored...not much point in election shenanigans anyway.

LonePirate

(13,419 posts)
3. Yeah, that closet contained 540,000 unmarked ballots all of which would have gone to Sanders.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:19 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary won the state by over 530,000 votes. It is ridiculous to think this is an instance of dirty tricks on her part. Sometimes it is best not to listen to those conspiratorial voices.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
4. In Illinois, if you don't win Chicago, you lose. If you look at a map of Illinois,
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 06:03 PM
Mar 2016

and how the state votes, you'll see Chicago goes Blue and a tiny segment in Southern Illinois is Blue. The rest of the entire state is RED in the GE. Bernie won almost the entire state outside of Chicago! My county which is 80 miles South of Chicago voted for Bernie (yay!), 90 minutes South of me, Champaign county went for Bernie (U of I) and 60 minutes South of Champaign where my son goes to college, Coles county, went for Bernie....and pretty much all counties in between here and there AND many, many Northern counties went to Bernie!

Had he concentrated his time and money in Chicago...along with SIU, Carbondale /Edwardsville and U of I college towns, he would have won BIG. The entire state voted for him...except Chicago.

Winning Chicago is how you win Illinois. That's an unfortunate fact in a Primary... I still can't believe he lost there though with all the Universities downtown.

No use crying over spilled milk though.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

corbettkroehler

(1,898 posts)
5. Commuter delays hurt
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 07:53 PM
Mar 2016

The fixed seemed to be in because Rahm knew what you so eloquently shared. Still, Chuy's role as a surrogate should have been used bigger.

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