Hillary Sucessfully Fights Off Sanders Attempt to Deny Her Delegate Win In Iowa

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Tom Watson ?@tomwatson 2h2 hours ago
Important news from #Iowa - Clinton campaign successfully fought off challenge of caucus results. https://twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/709023809508999169


Starting Line, March 13th, 2016: Clinton Maintains Iowa Delegate Win In County Conventions

Hillary Clinton’s campaign fought off a tough effort by Bernie Sanders’ operation in county conventions throughout the state to determine the next round of delegates that eventually end up at the national convention. At the end of the day, Clinton stood at 704 state delegates and Sanders had 700. That’s a slight improvement for both from caucus night’s final results, when Clinton had 700.47 and Sanders received 696.92.

The big prize both campaigns sought was the 5th statewide delegate. In addition to assigning national delegates by congressional district, Iowa also has 9 statewide delegates. Because of Clinton’s narrow win on caucus night, those split in her favor 5-4. The closeness led to fierce competition around the state on Saturday as Sanders tried to pick up just a handful more state delegates here and there to move ahead.

Sanders was unsuccessful in that effort, and the projected national delegate count remained the same both on the statewide level and by congressional district. Clinton still has a 23-21 advantage from Iowa...

Clinton maintaining her delegate advantage was by no means a given. In 2008 she lost a projected national delegate during those county conventions, while Barack Obama picked up ten. That added to her delegate problems nationally and kept her further behind. If Sanders wanted to start to legitimately catch up in that regard, he had a shot at picking up one, possibly two projected national delegates through the county conventions.

It’s unlikely the counts will change at the district and state convention level. The county conventions are typically where you see the most movement in delegates.


read more: http://iowastartingline.com/2016/03/13/clinton-maintains-iowa-delegate-win-in-county-conventions/

[noretreatnosurrender]

1. Thanks for the post

We watched in a thread yesterday how that was accomplished.

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2. YES!

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3. Thanks for sharing. Every vote and every delegate matter. Nt

[Jackilope]

4. wait it out, hold supporters in Polk County 10 hours or so ....

When the parents and those Sanders supporters with medical issues finally need to leave for food, water, and taking care of their families or themselves, then count.

Winning strategy. 500 left knowing exactly how Clinton camp operates.

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5. The delegates had an obligation to stay through the credential checks

It's too bad the ones who left weren't prepared to fulfill those roles.

The recount seems to indicate a significant number of no-shows on both sides. Polk County is in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District which has 7 delegates. After the caucuses, the preliminary count was 4 to 3 in Hillary’s favor.

Some Sanders' supporters thought the final tally would shift one delegate from Hillary to Bernie. But the result in Polk County doesn't determine how Iowa CD-03's seven delegates will be split. The result in the whole district determines the allocation. Hillary had a substantial lead in CD-03. Even if she lost 12 Polk county delegates to Sanders, it wouldn't change the district totals enough to net one delegate for Bernie...

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6. An obligation for elderly people to remain for 10-11 hours?

While recounts and checks were repeatedly carried out, and people wrongly told they could leave before it was all complete?

Yeah sure...

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7. that was due to the bungling of Polk County Democratic officials

...the outcry against Hillary folks is that they called for a recount and credential check in the first place, which was their perfect right.

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9. Waiting on CoffeeCat's videos.

Meanwhile -- from this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511483501

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8. Did anybody spot the HRC2016 License Plate in the lot?

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