Would Hillary have lost if she didnt win all 6 of those coin tosses?

[boomer55]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427637/Money-DOES-win-elections-Hillary-won-two-Iowa-precincts-coin-toss.html

Clinton supporters chose tails in Des Moines's precinct 70, and won. It was tails again for Clinton in Davenport's precinct 13 - marking another victory. In Ames precinct 2-4, Clinton won with heads.
The odds of winning six coin tosses is 64-to-1, or 1.5 per cent.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. The coin must have been issued by Goldman Sachs.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. ok, you win post of the day!... to fuckin' funny! (and sad at the same time).

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Thank you! I have my moments. LOL

[DanTex]

2. Doubtful, since the delegates awarded weren't state delegate equivalents, they were county delegates

which are worth a fraction of a state delegate.

[JonLeibowitz]

6. Yep. Still a fun story though. n/t

[fredamae]

3. It appears "it" isn't settled

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/some-democratic-precinct-results-unaccounted/79682184/

[Dem2]

12. The story claims the results were counted

Although rather late.

[fredamae]

13. I'm understanding the IA Dem Offices are Closed

no one answering the phones for them to turn results in. Likely-I'm guessing due to the storm coming.
There are a ton of different stories out there, right now.

I consider it a Tie....not a "historic win" as some are calling it-at least at this juncture.

[Dem2]

14. It's certainly not 'historic'

It's the talk of politics - until next Tuesday.

[wildeyed]

4. Sanders must have fallen for the old "Heads I win, Tails you lose trick."

[Vinca]

5. It ended up being SIX coin tosses?

Jeez . . . they should have saved themselves all that money and drawn straws a year ago. What a really dumb way to pick the next POTUS.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Saw reports that if the coin flips had gone evenly (3-3), Bernie woulda won.

Makes you wonder... hmmm.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Capt. Obvious]

11. that would be incorrect

[Capt. Obvious]

10. No. She would have won anyway.

I don't think the margin would have changed either but I don't know the minutia of how 1 county delegate factors into projected state wide equivalent.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Could be 1/10th, could be 1/20th

It's definitely not 1-1, which is what the people claiming coin toss victory are incorrectly assuming.

[PeaceNikki]

16. No. It's fun to dream, though.

[Bongo Prophet]

17. No, it would not change the outcome. Here is why

The coin toss was for individual delegates at precinct level, of which there are thousands.

The delegates that were decided by coin flips were delegates to the party's county conventions, of which there are thousands selected across the state from 1,681 separate precincts. They were not the statewide delegate equivalents that are reported in the final results.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/sometimes-iowa-democrats-award-caucus-delegates-coin-flip/79680342/

The people here on DU trying to turn this into a meme of "Bernie would have won but for the coin toss" are either misunderstanding or trying to cause mischief - that's the nicest way I can put that.

Hope that clarifies the issue.