Hillary Clinton and her supporters are spreading the mischaracterization that

[tm1323]

Hillary has received 2.5 million more votes than Bernie. She just said it again at her rally today.

Remember after Nevada when a meme (screenshot from Wikipedia) was going around the internet that Bernie was still leading in the raw vote count. Hillary supporters were upset (and rightfully so) that the meme failed to include numbers from the caucuses in Iowa and Nevada, both of which she won. See below:

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Well, now the numbers favor Hillary, her and her supporters are parroting the myth that she's up 2.5 million votes, totally ignoring the fact that raw votes from caucuses aren't released, and that's where most of Bernie's big wins have been.

[hereforthevoting]

1. I thought that sounded off

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. One could easily estimate the number of caucus voters and allocate the votes to each candidate...

One could easily estimate the number of caucus voters and allocate the votes to each candidate based on delegate allocation. I assure you it doesn't close a 2,500,000 vote deficit.

[grasswire]

3. she can't stop lying or exaggerating

Probably not a good habit, considering her upcoming interview with the FBI.

[FlatBaroque]

4. Funny thing, Comey was the investigator in the Whitewater scandal

and Hillary skated on that. Comey later learned of the deceptions that Hillary engaged in during the investigation. I hope he is ready to settle the score with Her.

[upaloopa]

5. The Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, after three separate inquiries found insufficient

The Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, after three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal,



As a result of the exposé in the New York Times, the Justice Department opened an investigation into the failed Whitewater deal. Media pressure continued to build, and on April 22, 1994, Hillary Clinton gave an unusual press conference under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the State Dining Room of the White House, to address questions on both Whitewater and the cattle futures controversy; it was broadcast live on several networks. In it she claimed that the Clintons had a passive role in the Whitewater venture, and had committed no wrongdoing, but admitted her explanations had been vague and that she no longer opposed appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the matter. Afterwards she won media praise for the manner in which she conducted herself during this, her first adversarial press conference;[14] Time called her "open, candid, but above all unflappable...the real message was her attitude and her poise. The confiding tone and relaxed body language...immediately drew approving reviews".[27] By that time there was growing backlash from Democrats and other members of the political left against the press' investigations of Whitewater, with the New York Times coming in for special criticism by Gene Lyons of Harper's Magazine, who felt its reporters were exaggerating the significance and possible impropriety of what they were uncovering.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

[djean111]

6. Not voting for a deliberately misleading candidate, much less a liar. n/t