2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYes, Clinton is winning the popular vote — by a wide margin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/19/yes-hillary-clinton-is-winning-the-popular-vote-by-a-wide-margin/?hpid=hp_special-topic-chain_fix-clinton-650pm%3Ahomepage%2FstoryWriter and activist Shaun King has a prolific presence on social media and an outspoken passion for Bernie Sanders. King appeared in Sanders's Spike Lee-directed promotional video that came out shortly before the New York primary, and he has consistently advocated for the senator from Vermont on Twitter for months.
On Thursday, he used Twitter to vent about something that frustrated him: Hillary Clinton's assertion that she leads the Democratic primary by 3 million votes, a figure that he says is inaccurate and overstated.
It isn't.
pinskinny
(82 posts)Arneoker
(375 posts)Where there are primaries and more people can easily participate? Telling admission!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)How does it look in the GE - the one that matters?
Arneoker
(375 posts)When you combine spring polls with some other facts and critical thinking:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/polls_say_bernie_is_more_electable_than_hillary_don_t_believe_them.html
larkrake
(1,674 posts)JI7
(89,281 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)this explanation is chasing after people who don't give a damn about the truth, but are just desperate to prolong their losing campaign.
History won't be kind to the whimper of opposition they've posed in this primary.
MFM008
(19,826 posts)and not each other.
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)The steps they'll take to alter history and public perception is classic Orwellian.
onenote
(42,799 posts)Or like King do you think sanders should get credit for 71 percent of the entire population of Washington state (including children under voting age, republicans and the millions that didn't participate in the caucuses there?
Arneoker
(375 posts)frustrated_lefty
(2,774 posts)Toss her in the shark tank with indies and republicans and it'd s different story.
Arneoker
(375 posts)She's been in the shark tank. Bernie hasn't. Looks like they could find him quite tasty.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)An ugly, disturbing & disgusting thing, yes - but still awesome, nonetheless.