Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Waves


14 comments:

  1. Whoa! Ahm here ahl bah myseff!

    Bernie is First in Utah…so far and likely!

    But can anyone explain to me why, with 2.5% of the vote counted, and with Bernie at 55.2% and Hillary at 40.3%
    We see that 2 of the 37 delegates have been allocated to HRC? =HUH??!!=

    CANDIDATE . . . % OF VOTE . . .VOTES . . . DELEGATES ALLOCATED
    B. Sanders . . . . . . 55.2% . . . . . 255
    H. Clinton . . . . . . 40.3% . . . . . 186. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
    Uncommitted . . . . 4.5% . . . . . . 21

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  2. I figured it out. There was a box to unclick if you didn't want to see the super delegate numbers.

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  3. WOW!!! No word all night from Idaho then suddenly they posted the whole state at once!!

    BERNIE IN A LANDSLIDE!!

    78% Bernie
    21.2% Hillary

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    1. Hillary won exactly one tiny county. She had 20 votes to Bernie's 19. LOL! He won the whole rest of the state! :-D

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  4. I note that CNN and other media are saying Hillary had "the big win" in Arizona and that Bernie had "morale boosting" wins in Idaho and Utah. I calculate that Bernie will gain at least 10 more delegates than Hillary will gain. Ha!

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  5. Women for Bernie posted this on Facebook around midnight Eastern.

    "Arizona’s primaries aren’t even done yet, and there’s already legal action being taken as a result of incompetence or possibly even intentional sabotage.

    "Leaders from the Arizona branch of the Democratic Party have confirmed that its lawyers are officially making an inquiry after multiple Democratic voters showed up to the polls only to find that they were listed as independents, Republicans, or had no party affiliation at all.

    "Many voters wound up having to wait in line under the hot Arizona sun only to find that they were ineligible to vote for the candidates of their choice. To add insult to injury, the polling locations have been so poorly planned that many voters had to wait in line up to four hours before finding out that their information had been improperly filed."

    Related article and video (via Kos) ~
    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/22/1505136/-Arizona-Officials-Confirm-Legal-Action-in-Primary-Fiasco-Sanders-Ask-Voters-Monitor-Situation?_=2016-03-22T20%3A06%3A58-07%3A00

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  6. When I looked around noon today, Bernie had gained a total of 16 delegates net, with a few still undecided. It's a start, it's a start.

    Don't worry if you don't see me for a few days. I leave earlyish tomorrow morning for an SF convention in the twin cities.

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  7. Court in Fremont (east SF Bay Area) today, easy and stressless. Heavier traffic than usual, Miyoko suggested was due to spring break. Looked like it at the rest stops, certainly. Being lazy now.

    Interesting to hear about the Arizona primary inquiries. If there should prove to be fire where there is smoke, preventing the seating of the Arizona delegates, or seating of an alternate slate, would seem appropriate. [Remember the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates?]

    And here are a few gatherings from the Internet (and one local editorial) that I found interesting. TTFN--Alan


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    Jonah Goldberg: “Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it. Not nominating Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it…”
    “Trump represents just the most pronounced of a spiderweb of ideological and demographic fault lines that are increasingly difficult to paper over. As Joel Kotkin put it in a column for the Orange County Register, the Republican Party now ‘consists of interest groups that so broadly dislike each other that they share little common ground.’”

    My thoughts: similarly the Whig Party disintegrated into several parties, mostly small and localized (excepting the Republican Party) that didn’t last long but did have some significant local effects. But that was long before the Internet and Facebook etc. What happens now? With modern communications the fragments are probably going to be scattered all over the country, in communication but mostly lacking even local power. That sounds like a recipe for further frustration, alienation, psychosis and paranoia. Not good. Very not good.
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    “Wall Street is mobilizing against proposals to tax financial transactions as the idea gains attention on the campaign trail and in Congress,” The Hill reports.
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    “A proposal to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2021 has qualified to be listed on the upcoming November ballot in the state,” Reuters reports.
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    Fresno Bee Editorial: The difference between tough talk and hanging tough [Click] Listing the responses of the various Presidential contenders as well as President Obama, there is this:
    ”…former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “solidarity with our European allies” and noted that the attack showed why NATO – which Trump airily dismissed on Monday – was “indispensable in our efforts to protect our country.” Though “there has to be some honest reckoning about what works and what doesn’t work,” she added, “we can be strong and smart without advocating torture or bigotry.”

    Now, that may not be accurate—I haven’t checked. But what the Devil does Nato have to do with it? Interpol I could see. Basically the statement as quoted strikes me as ill-considered word salad. Bernie comes across better, although mostly paraphrased rather than quoted.
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    Brain parasite could be behind rage disorder in adults [Click] Should presidential candidates be tested for it? Just sayin’.
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    1. Continued:

      Moon's tilt changed by volcanic activity over three billion years ago [Click] Discovery in old data…maybe paleo-ice can tell us where Earth got its water?
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      Bacteria darkening the Greenland ice sheet [Click]
      'Sistine chapel of early Middle Ages' reopens in Rome after 30 years [Click] Basilica di Santa Maria Antiqua
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      Seven ways the driverless car will change your life [Click]

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    2. Presidential candidates should certainly be tested for it. and the ones that test positive should be quarantined stat! That ought'a take care of the Republican candidates...

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    3. I must admit I was thinking along those lines...

      Alan

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  8. Bernie did GREAT in Idaho (78%) and Utah (79.2%)!!!

    Arizona was a MESS on Primary day, with long ones, FIVE HOUR waits to vote, and people being told they are not on the list. Even people who were lifelong Dems were told they were listed as R or I …!! Crazy! This needs to be investigated!!

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