Jesus Christ my hobby is Sanders skepticism but I was 100% sure he was gonna get Michiganhttps://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1237241959800090625 …
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Don't tell me this is Warren's fault, your whole narrative in the first place was Bernie was gonna get all the blue collar autoworkers who hate snooty Harvard professors and identity politics
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Replying to @arthur_affect
What if I told you the DNC doesn't count votes in primaries, and I can prove it with exit polls? There is a 95% chance I am right and a 5% chance that you've been tricked. Let's discuss statistics. Also Bernie isn't going to win Michigan.
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Replying to @gregory_boggs
The DNC indeed does not count votes in primaries because that's not their job Primary elections are administered by the state, and the vote in each precinct is counted by the county clerk's office
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gregory_boggs
That is the *definition* of the difference between a caucus and a primary, a caucus is an event run by the state party organization whereas a primary is run by the state government as a regular election That's why you vote for the city council and judges etc on the same ballot
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Replying to @arthur_affect
You're right I should use more words when discussing the party apparatus. Let's talk exit polls. It's far more interesting than the difference between the county clerk's office, the California Democratic Party and the DNC.
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Replying to @gregory_boggs
The people who count the votes are hired by the state and local government, not the "party apparatus" That is literally the whole point of what a primary election is, it is not administered by the "party apparatus" at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gregory_boggs
in many states they're nonpartisan elected officials. caucuses are an exemption, but they're pretty much all done now.
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Replying to @TGarveyP @gregory_boggs
Yeah people get this twisted but the definition of a "caucus" is not the specific way a caucus selects delegates but that a caucus is an event run within the party You can have a caucus with ballots that works just like a primary election (a "firehouse caucus")
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It's just that firehouse caucuses cost more money to run and raise bias allegations (they're called that because the party usually needs to borrow a public space like a firehouse) Caucuses are usually run the way they are because delegates "count themselves"
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