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Related: About this forum"There's obviously something wrong with the numbers"
Sanders campaign manager: 'There's obviously something wrong with the numbers'
By NICK GASS 03/23/16 01:16 AM EDT
Bernie Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver was not fully ready to throw in the towel in Arizona based on counted early votes late Tuesday evening, hours after The Associated Press and major networks called the Democratic race for Hillary Clinton.
Im not predicting victory, but Im not predicting defeat, either," Weaver told CNN in an interview following Sanders' San Diego address to supporters. "I mean, we have to wait and see til the votes are counted."
"Theres obviously something wrong with the numbers, and I think once we see where they come down, it may end up being a split of delegates basically in Arizona," he said. "I do think in other places tonight, were hearing some very good news.
Asked what went wrong in Arizona, Weaver responded, Well its not about what went wrong. Its early in the night still."
Weaver referred to CNN's projection that 71 percent of the vote has been counted but called the overall votes that have been reported "really an underestimation of the number of people who were voting there."
"Weve seen lines in Arizona for five hours long literally," he said. "So based on CNNs calculations and what we know about how many people early-voted, that would mean only 100,000 people came out and live-voted, Democrats in Arizona. I think that thats just wrong. So I think this race is gonna to close up substantially between now and the morning.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/sanders-campaign-manager-wrong-numbers-221135#ixzz43hjnCR2y
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"There's obviously something wrong with the numbers" (Original Post)
Donkees
Mar 2016
OP
The corrupt corporate owned MSM must be sued....that includes the AP, Politico and evey other
in_cog_ni_to
Mar 2016
#2
Plus, it's not even officially a primary, but an 'other' - "Presidential Preference Election"
Donkees
Mar 2016
#3
dchill
(38,441 posts)1. And something wrong with...
the MSM. People still waiting to vote, Wolf Blitzer and John King go to bed. Goodnight!
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)2. The corrupt corporate owned MSM must be sued....that includes the AP, Politico and evey other
Online rag that called AZ. with thousands of people still in line trying to vote. Election tampering is a crime. And of course it favored Clinton, as usual.
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Donkees
(31,332 posts)3. Plus, it's not even officially a primary, but an 'other' - "Presidential Preference Election"
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)5. Thank you!
It's fucking outrageous. We use to send Jimmy Carter to other countries to make sure they had fair elections! WE need someone to intervene on OUR behalf. This shit has to stop.
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Donkees
(31,332 posts)8. I remember Castro offering to help us oversee elections, long time ago. It's disgusting now.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)4. Agreed. Calling it based on 2% of mail in ballots
while turning away EVERY new Dem is beyond the pale. They did the same thing to new Dems here in Florida too, and the split was similar. Interesting, eh?
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)6. Yes, very interesting.
Bernie has to do something to stop this or they will never stop.
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deepestblue
(349 posts)7. It is unbelievable
Calling it based on 2% of mail in ballots
This is very similar to the incessant displaying of the completely erroneous democratic delegate count at the bottom of all of the MSM screens.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)9. Yeah? I think I found the problem