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restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:52 AM Feb 2016

what a shock:clinton wins delegate by drawing ace in card draw

Ace Beats Six: Hillary Clinton Wins Nevada Delegate in Card Draw Tie-Breaker


PAHRUMP, Nev. – Hillary Clinton won one delegate in a tie precinct in Pahrump, Nev., because her precinct captain won a card draw against Bernie Sanders’s.

The 30 voters in Precinct 10 at Morse Elementary School split even, 15 to 15. Per state Democratic Party rules, the precinct chairwoman, Peggy Rhoades, produced the sealed deck of cards she was provided to break the tie and award the fifth available delegate to the candidate with the high card. (Follow our Nevada live blog.)

Ms. Rhoades, a member of the Nye County Democratic Party’s central committee, removed the jokers from the deck. Representatives from the Clinton and Sanders campaign asked her to shuffle the cards three times, which she did, before spreading the 52 cards out across a table.

Mrs. Clinton’s representative went first: She pulled the ace. Mr. Sanders’s precinct captain couldn’t top that with his six of hearts.


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/02/20/ace-beats-six-hillary-clinton-wins-nevada-delegate-in-card-draw-tie-breaker/

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what a shock:clinton wins delegate by drawing ace in card draw (Original Post) restorefreedom Feb 2016 OP
I see the beginings of a "Are Aces low or high?" controversey brewing here on DU. stone space Feb 2016 #1
when bernie fails to be elected it will be his fault no one else. stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #2
When Hillary fails to be elected in November it will be her fault and no one else. TIME TO PANIC Feb 2016 #7
to T chump ...... stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #8
Hey, America voted for Reagan twice. n/t TIME TO PANIC Feb 2016 #9
Card Drawn From BOTTOM Of Deck! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #10
must be something wrong the girl won! stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #12
Smearing a civil rights icon is pretty low. stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #13
If Bernie can't deal cards or flip coins, he needs to get out of politics!! Sancho Feb 2016 #3
Sancho, How Appropo! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #11
Shrug. Random chance is random chance. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #4
Cardgate! grossproffit Feb 2016 #5
Perfect. She is an ace draw for democracy!!!! Nt NCTraveler Feb 2016 #6
 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
1. I see the beginings of a "Are Aces low or high?" controversey brewing here on DU.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:00 AM
Feb 2016
Ms. Rhoades, a member of the Nye County Democratic Party’s central committee, removed the jokers from the deck.


It would have been funny had she forgot, and a joker had been drawn.

TIME TO PANIC

(1,894 posts)
7. When Hillary fails to be elected in November it will be her fault and no one else.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:40 AM
Feb 2016

.... that's IF she's the nominee.

CorporatistNation

(2,546 posts)
10. Card Drawn From BOTTOM Of Deck!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:22 AM
Feb 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511292568#post5

Above is Delores Huerta Foundation Receiving $100k from Clinton Foundation in 2010

See pdf page 34... There it is! http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/300/300048438/300048438_201012_990PF.pdf

Hillbots could care less how CORRUPT are the Clintons... pitiful

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
4. Shrug. Random chance is random chance.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:05 AM
Feb 2016

The coin flips in Iowa don't have any sort of quantum entanglement with the card cut in Nevada. It was going to be 50-50 one or the other here, no matter who won the coin flips. That's the least iffy part of anything that went on in Nevada.

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