"Bernie Sanders Wins WIU’s Historically Accurate Mock Election"
"The Road to the White House starts at Western Illinois University
WIU recently held their traditional mock election. It is an incredibly intricate and organized event starting with primary and caucuses and finishing up with a mock general election.
Dr. Rick Hardy and Dr. John Hemingway have been leading Mock Presidential Elections since 1975. During that time, students who have participated in these mock elections have chosen the winning party with 100% accuracy and have an astonishing record in selecting presidential winners.
On the Democratic side for the Primaries Sanders won by close to a 2 to 1 margin over challenger Hillary Clinton. Martin O’Malley finished the primary with about 1/18 of Bernie’s take of the delegates."
http://thebernreport.com/bernie-sanders-wins-wius-accurate-mock-election/
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Is this another conspiracy to attack Clinton?!?
It's amazing how many Independent voters there are, and how many registered Republicans and Democrats are willing to switch sides. I shouldn't be amazed, as I've lived through Ronald Reagan grabbing those voters by the train load, and then Bill Clinton later doing it with the Independent voters in 1996. (Ross Perot was like a vacuum cleaner with all those voters, for a while)
But getting barraged by the media with their overly simplistic narrative of what they project to happen has taken its toll on me, I guess. lol 
A big story that gets under reported is how Secretary Clinton is faring with Independents and registered Republicans who don't always vote the party line. And that story dovetails with the polling numbers regarding how honest she is seen as being by them.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2299 *
The story is about voters that will have to be swayed by our party, and who live in states where we have a shot, but where we'll have to fight extremely hard to win.
*Clinton has the lowest rating for honesty as American voters say 60 - 36 percent she is not honest and trustworthy. Trump is not honest and trustworthy, voters say 58 - 38 percent.
Secretary Clinton's advantage is that she came into the primary season with huge name recognition, lots of money, the support of the establishment, and a very credible resume. That's great for sweeping the primaries, but the cold equations for winning the voting in the electoral college are another matter.
Winning enough votes in the electoral college has little to do with having had the endorsements of mayors and congresspeople from states we always easily win. And sadly, that also applies to states we always lose. They're important for the primaries, but winning in November 2016 will mean winning over the key voters in that huge block of those who are greatly disaffected of our political, social, and economic, system.
We have to look at the path forward through this terrain, and who will head our ticket as we campaign to win in the general elections.
