Saturday, June 04, 2016

Tell it!


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  1. Here’s a Bernie poster I particularly like. [Click] (There are others in the same slide collection.)
    —Alan

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  2. Colorado just gave Bernie another delegate because they counted 10 precincts wrong. Now he has 5 delegates from Colorado and Hillary has 3. They were even at 4 each, and Hillary's campaign knew about the bad count the day after the election, but they didn't say anything. Bernie was first told about it this past Monday.

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    1. Gee, whoda thunk? I wonder how the recount in Kentucky is coming along...

      --Alan

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    2. Kentucky recanvass reduced HRC's margin from 1,923 to 1,911. Well, it was worth a try; in some states a recount would have been automatic in such a close contest.

      Alan

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    3. Note that this was a recanvass rather than a recount. They only looked at the vote totals from each precinct rather than the actual ballots. Bernie would have had to pay for a recount, which might have changed 1 delegate at most.

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    4. Well, of course HRC's people didn't say anything about Colorado; it being to their advantage not to.You can bet they'd have been raising the roof if they were behind and they thought a recount would change that. :P

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  3. Susan, Bernie was told months ago.

    Bernie Sanders Could Win Majority Of Colorado Delegates After Party ...
    www.politicususa.com/.../bernie-sanders-win-majority-colorado-delegate...
    Apr 12, 2016 - Bernie Sanders has been awarded an additional delegate after the ... after the Colorado Democratic Party admitted that they miscounted the ... The new count contrasts with prior projections from The Post, ... The state party reported the error to the Clinton campaign but never told the Sanders campaign.

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    1. Thanks, puddle. The article I read said he wasn't told until 3/30. Still, why would they tell Clinton but not Bernie? This whole primary has been a mess.

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    2. No, not a mess. It's all according to the grand Clinton plan. Nothing, not facts, not vote totals, not favorability/unfavorability ratings, nothing at all must stand in the way of HRC's inevitable nomination. Besides that, the Party apparatus is owned by the Clintons, lock, stock and barrel - or has been for so long that it never occurred to her things could be any other way.

      Of course the Colorado Party told her about the mistake, and of course they did not tell Bernie. The wonder is that they finally admitted it publicly and made the needed adjustment. I think the fact of their doing so is yet another small crack in the bubble of make-believe, the myth of inevitability that surrounds HRC.

      The question is, will it all come tumbling down in time, or is it already too late?

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  4. With apologies to Puddle: I came across this video and thought folks here would find it interesting.

    Seymour Hersh On Bernie Sanders vs. Clinton - Click

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  5. Last night I started a novel called The Poe Shadow by Matthew Perl. It's a historical novel that opens on the afternoon of Poe's funeral and purportedly deals with the mysterious circumstances of the writer's death. No doubt it will be most interesting, when I can settle down.Going to try a bit more tonight.

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  6. HRC Rally in Fresno. [Click] Attendance estimated at 1,300-1,500. The makeup of the crowd is distinctly different from that at the Bernie rally. A Bernie video plays on the newspaper page that hosts this story.

    The YouTube video of HRC’s speech in Fresno will behere [Click] once it is posted, but I have my doubts that it will dwell on shots of the audience.

    In the meantime, Here [Click] is Bernie’s motorcade with police escort in Fresno on 5/29. Someone else posted a video of Dump Truck's motorcade crawling along in the emergency lane of the freeway in Anaheim.

    Bernie at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland 5/30 [Click] I haven't watched it yet, but intend to--should be very good, I think.

    Bernie at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum NOW. [Click]

    —Alan

    P.S.: Few of the videos of Bernie rallies show good shots of the crowds.

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  7. Judging from the camera crews platform, this would show about half the turnout for Bernie in Sacramento. [Click] HRC has never attracted a comparable crowd… I do hope California will do its fair share of the job, and then some.

    —Alan

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