Hillary Clinton won Iowa. Not coin flips.

[JaneyVee]

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton

Who is spreading these rumors? Or the rumors about 90 precincts being unstaffed? None of that is true. Hillary won the national and state delegates while Bernie and Hillary won some county delegates through coin flips.

Edited to add: What won Iowa for Hillary even after being outspent by Bernie? Non-white voters handed Hillary victory. She won +24. An ominous sign for Bernie beyond NH.

[Metric System]

1. They do love themselves some conspiracies!

[PowerToThePeople]

2. Coin flips

It is all she has going for her.

[JaneyVee]

4. The article states Bernie won more coin flips.

Oops.

[PowerToThePeople]

8. No. It does not.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. It does not say that at all JV

If you're going to spin, spin effectively.

[tammywammy]

15. No, it doesn't.

It says there were a dozen or so coin flips and he won "a handful".

[JaneyVee]

16. Ok I read it quickly as meaning a handful more.

You're right. Although for all we know a "handful" could mean 50%.

[tammywammy]

18. If he won half they would have said half.

[JaneyVee]

19. But she won 6 out of a dozen it says.

[DrDan]

7. that plus more Iowa Dem voters than her challenger

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. You can blame the opinion media for that.

It was repeated several times, there.

Rachel was did it several times.

[canadian gal]

5. Yep

The conspiratial screaming, stupidity and vitriol are frightening.

March can't come soon enough

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Good sportsmanship is essential to comity..nt

[Live and Learn]

9. Whatever gets you through the day. nt

[JaneyVee]

11. Reality and factual information get me through my day.

[Live and Learn]

12. Well that will be a nice change. Enjoy. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Known as the whisker

[DesertRat]

14. k&r

[ecstatic]

17. Trump was more gracious in his defeat than Sanders

Hinting that the Iowa democrats cheated was way out of bounds. I'm completely done with him.

[R B Garr]

20. I think the Sanders people floated that phony outrage meme

about the unstaffed precincts so he could play "victim of the Establishment." No proof needed. Just malign people in the name of anti-Establishment to rile his supporters up.

[morningfog]

21. What percent were non white? In what precincts?

[JaneyVee]

22. Kick for the late sleepers.

[Skinner]

23. That article is the best explanation I have seen so far.

And this image from the article is a good visualization of the layers of delegates we are talking about. The coin tosses were for the 11,065 precinct delegates...