2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie: Calling the Hillary NY Cheating "Disgraceful" is Not Enough, It Was Illegal. Do Something. [View all]beedle
(1,235 posts)Bernie blew away those predictions.
In all "heavy Clinton' predicted counties, Bernie took all but two, both of which were narrow Clinton wins. In all 'leaning Clinton' counties, Bernie won those in what were essentially landslides ... vast majority of them over 10%, majority of those over 15%, and several over 30 & 40% ... and remember those were the 'leaning Hillary' counties ... we're not even getting into the predicted Bernie counties.
It's only when we get to the counties where there was vast voter suppression that Hillary starts to 'turn things around'.
Maybe you're right, and the NYC boroughs were all Hillary, and the purge only hurt her ... but since the poll aggregators were so far off in the rest of the state, there's really no reason to simply accept that they were totally accurate when it came to just one section of the state.
But that's fine, she 'won', so let's give her that advantage and move on, but let's also recognize that the primary voting system across the country has been one big example of a corrupted system at work, and give the 'election results' all the due respect they deserve ie. not a whole lot ... they are good enough to determine if the candidate is 'competitive', but given the corruption in the vote, the process, the dirty tricks, that's about all they are good for ... if the candidate is not 'blown out', then they should go to the convention where the decision can be made on issues other than JUST the corrupt primary system.