2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDataGate - What Most Voters Will Think
Frankly, I think the percentage of voters who give a damn about it at all is incredibly small. Most people will only understand the bare minimum of what happened and will not look any further into it. Here's what I think will be remembered from the whole data issue in two headline-style statements:
Sanders Staffers Steal Clinton Data
Sanders Apologizes; Fires Staffers
Net effect on people's choice of primary candidates = 0
Net change in probability of becoming nominee = 0
Note: This OP was originally a reply in another thread.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Good to see that Bernie and Hillary are handling this situation like adults.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Only political wonks are going to dig into this at all. Most of them have already made up their minds. The media will return to its navel-gazing over the GOP clown car. That's way more interesting.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I don't think it matters, frankly, for the reasons I stated in the OP.
You might think differently. It's an opinion.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)or not. I don't know her, and neither do most voters, to tell the truth. Only political wonks give a damn about her.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)This is confirmation of people's belief that the party machinery doesn't belong to the people.
This belief is not confined to democrats.
I think this viewpoint is huge. Or in the case of Republicans, "yoooooge".
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)and there is no further legal procedure.