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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 2039193" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p><strong>Fools rush in.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews</a></p><p></p><p><em>It's been reported that there were <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/coin-toss-broke-6-clinton-sanders-deadlocks-in-iowa-and-hillary-won-each-time-2016-02-02" target="_blank">as many as six sites</a> where ties were decided by the flip of a coin — and Clinton won every single one. The odds of that happening are 1 in 64, or less than 2 percent. What's more, that gave her just slightly more than her margin of victory over Sanders — four delegates.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Things that make you go hmm. Indeed.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Here's proof: Watch one of these coin-toss tiebreakers in this video, taken by Univision reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/FernandoPeinado" target="_blank">Fernando Peinado</a> at a caucus precinct:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Except that doesn't tell the whole story. In fact, there were at least a dozen tiebreakers — and "Sen. Sanders won at least a handful," an Iowa Democratic Party official told NPR.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Gone unmentioned so far is that even if Clinton won that Miracle Six — and there were no other coin tosses — it would make little difference in the outcome. That is, in part, because of the complicated way Iowa Democrats allocate their delegates — and what was being reported on election night and what wasn't.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 2039193, member: 55299"] [B]Fools rush in.[/B] [URL]http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews[/URL] [I]It's been reported that there were [URL='http://www.marketwatch.com/story/coin-toss-broke-6-clinton-sanders-deadlocks-in-iowa-and-hillary-won-each-time-2016-02-02']as many as six sites[/URL] where ties were decided by the flip of a coin — and Clinton won every single one. The odds of that happening are 1 in 64, or less than 2 percent. What's more, that gave her just slightly more than her margin of victory over Sanders — four delegates. Things that make you go hmm. Indeed. Here's proof: Watch one of these coin-toss tiebreakers in this video, taken by Univision reporter [URL='https://twitter.com/FernandoPeinado']Fernando Peinado[/URL] at a caucus precinct: Except that doesn't tell the whole story. In fact, there were at least a dozen tiebreakers — and "Sen. Sanders won at least a handful," an Iowa Democratic Party official told NPR.[/I] [I]Gone unmentioned so far is that even if Clinton won that Miracle Six — and there were no other coin tosses — it would make little difference in the outcome. That is, in part, because of the complicated way Iowa Democrats allocate their delegates — and what was being reported on election night and what wasn't.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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