RE: Live stream of Dem Convention.
July 27, 2016 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2016 at 2:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 27, 2016 at 5:43 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: You're right, we'll never know. But I do know that he lost by nearly 4 million votes, and he only got 13 million votes in the primary elections. That's nearly 33% of his total votes. I just don't see what the DNC did, what the news media did as making that big a difference.The one officiates, the other steers public opinion. The effect is multiplicative. We can;t know what the difference would have been...but that also means that we can't know that it would have been small. For all we know, a fairer process could have led to the sorts of discourse and engagement that might have discredited -Bernies- campaign, leaving Clinton in a much stronger position against Trump today.
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