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PostSubject: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyTue May 24, 2016 7:31 pm

Results will be announced in half an hour. Like Oregon we're 100% mail-in ballots, so the votes are already cast.

Bernie won 100% of the precincts on caucus day, so he should sweep the primary by a sizable margin. The district I attended, he was 75% to Hillary's 25%. We'll see if those same percentage hold in 30 minutes.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyTue May 24, 2016 8:31 pm

Whoa, with 30% of the vote in, Hillary is winning 54% to Bernie's 46%.

Didn't see that coming.

I think they said the delegates were allocated at the caucuses and tonight's vote does not count.  But still surprising.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyWed May 25, 2016 7:36 am

What a reversal, this morning with 100% of the vote counted, it's 72.7% for Bernie and 27.1% for Hillary.  They must have counted Eastern Washington first.

Okay, this is ODD. The news services are saying Hillary won -- even though Bernie got three times as many votes as her. And this:
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Washington has both a presidential primary and a caucus system, but Democrats will ignore the primary results, having chosen to keep using the party caucus system to allocate their delegates. Bernie Sanders handily won the Democratic caucuses in March. Following the congressional district caucuses over the weekend, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party said 74 delegates will go to Sanders and 27 to Clinton.
In what way is that a "win"?
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyWed May 25, 2016 7:51 am

Ah, okay I see what they're doing.

Under "Washington Primary Results" of the primary held yesterday, they're reporting the Washington Caucus results from March, since that is the only one that counts for delegates.

Hillary did indeed win the primary by 54-46, but the delegates were allocated two months ago.

Sloppy, sloppy reporting.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyWed May 25, 2016 8:11 am

John Oliver got it right.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyThu May 26, 2016 12:24 pm

If the Republican Party has any sense, it will ignore Trump and give the candidacy to someone with little or or baggage. I think the country would heave a great sight of relief and the Republican candidate would receive the benefit of that relief.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyThu May 26, 2016 12:46 pm

_Howard wrote:
I think the country would heave a great sight of relief
Not Trump supporters -- and they ARE out there.
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If the Republican Party has any sense
Thanks for the chuckle.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyThu May 26, 2016 1:42 pm

NoCoPilot wrote:
Not Trump supporters -- and they ARE out there.
Yes, and they amount to maybe four percent of the electorate.

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Thanks for the chuckle.
I enjoy comedy of the absurd.
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PostSubject: Re: WA State Primary   WA State Primary EmptyThu May 26, 2016 2:23 pm

Mason Johnson is making up his numbers, and he admits that.

126,144,000 people voted in 2012. Trump has received 9.1% of that number.

146,311,000 are registered to vote. Trump has received 7.9% of that number.

218,959,000 are eligible to vote. Trump has received 5.2% of that number.

So my four percent estimate was off by a bit. It depends on how you define "the electorate."

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