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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 11:55 AM Feb 2016

"Sanders is reeling from being exposed for shady campaign tactics"

A line from a post in the HRC section.
"Sanders is reeling from being exposed for shady campaign tactics"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110743223

I think (hope) Bernie will win N.H., maybe not as by as large a margin shown in the polls,
but HRC supporters seem to think she'll beat him there.
Am I uninformed, or are they dreaming?

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"Sanders is reeling from being exposed for shady campaign tactics" (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2016 OP
They will cheat like republicans 2pooped2pop Feb 2016 #1
I think that is the perception NowSam Feb 2016 #3
I believed that since I saw Bill Clinton and the Bush's get all cozy 2pooped2pop Feb 2016 #9
"Reeling"? I doubt that, since he's used to political BS even though Nay Feb 2016 #2
The problem with confronting such claims in the HRC section pennylane100 Feb 2016 #4
Hillary "DEFLECT TACTIC" wendylaroux Feb 2016 #5
One poll shows Sanders' lead shrinking to 7 points nxylas Feb 2016 #6
Aggregate is Bernie +12.8 at this point Mufaddal Feb 2016 #7
Shady campaign tactics, my ass. winter is coming Feb 2016 #8

NowSam

(1,252 posts)
3. I think that is the perception
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:44 PM
Feb 2016

That the entire system is so corrupt and that the results cannot be assured. How are we to have faith in the process when State Chairs are actually operatives for one candidate? In Iowa that appears to be the case and it is very easy to manipulate the count anyway. Machines flip numbers and human beings enter a "wrong" number here and their, the polls tell us the gap is closing like it is one big horserace. The wild polls that have the candidates 30% apart and suddenly they are 5% apart the day before election - I don't know who is changing their mind so much? Everyone seems to have made up their minds already so the polls seem like theater to me.

So it is pretty shocking to say, but many believe that eh Clintons are part of a rigged game and the fix is in.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
9. I believed that since I saw Bill Clinton and the Bush's get all cozy
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 04:57 PM
Feb 2016

when she was running against Obama. I felt that they had made a deal and the fix was in for Hillary. But Obama fooled them and though I imagine they tried, he was just too big for them to pull it off. I doubt they will make that mistake again though. So yeah, I think they plan to steal it.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
2. "Reeling"? I doubt that, since he's used to political BS even though
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:08 PM
Feb 2016

he tries to stay away from doing it himself. So, I think they are trying to comfort themselves when they talk like this.

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
4. The problem with confronting such claims in the HRC section
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:55 PM
Feb 2016

is that so many people have been banned from that group, it has become an echo chamber of misinformation.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
6. One poll shows Sanders' lead shrinking to 7 points
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:16 PM
Feb 2016

If the positions were reversed, it would be dismissed as an outlier. But because it favours Clinton, it's "scientific".Or should that be "unskewed"?

Mufaddal

(1,021 posts)
7. Aggregate is Bernie +12.8 at this point
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:46 PM
Feb 2016

But the numbers have been all over the place, even within individual polling agency figures. It's anyone's guess.

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