Dirty Politics

I watched the coverage of the Iowa caucuses as the votes were coming in. With about half of the results in, Hillary’s lead over Sanders had dwindled from 4 percentage points to 2. With about 90% of precincts reporting, it had continued to shrink to 0.4 percentage points. With 94% of the votes counted, it had slipped to 0.2 percentage points, 49.8% to 49.6%.

Then an amazing thing happened. If you watched closely, you noticed that the total precincts reporting briefly changed from 94% to 93%. I believe that what happened was that Sanders was doing too well, so the Clinton corruption machine jumped in and “recounted” some of those votes. When it did, her lead rose to 0.3 percentage points, 49.9% to 49.6%, and it stayed about the same until 100% of the results were in, and she won by 0.2 percentage points.

Oh, and what about those six precincts that each awarded an extra delegate based on a coin flip? Hillary happened to win all six coin flips. If they had gone the other way, Sanders would have won. Are you kidding me? Do you know how hard it is to win six coin flips in a row? Sit down and try it sometime.

This was reminiscent of the many precincts in Chicago where John McCain didn’t get a single vote in 2008. Some precincts report over 2,500 votes for Obama, and zero for McCain.

It also reminded me of the LBJ corruption machine. In his close races in Texas, it was almost a normal thing for them to “find” an extra box of ballots a few hours or a few days after most of the votes were in. And lo and behold, those extra ballots were always in his favor by 95% or so.

Come on, Hillary. At least do a little better job of camouflaging the corruption. And while you’re at it, tell us the truth Benghazi about and the classified e-mails on your personal server–Oh, and what really happened to Vince Foster.

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