Compelling -" Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race and I'll Prove it to You"

This is a great read - Seth Abramson in Huffington Post -Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race, and I’ll Prove It to You

This is notable in many aspects aside from the raw number crunching, but it also goes into the inside baseball of how reporting the early voting numbers is skewing the public's perception of how much of a lead Hillary Clinton actually has. We can add early voter reporting along with melding super delegates into pledged delegate totals to the Fake Election Returns being reported by the captured news media.

Abramson makes his case methodically

Consider: in Arizona yesterday, the election was called almost immediately by the media, with Clinton appearing to “win” the state by a margin of 61.5% to 36.1%. Of course, this was all early voting. CNN even wrongly reported that these early votes constituted the live vote in 41% of all Arizona precincts — rather than merely mail-in votes constituting a percentage of the total projected vote in the state — which allowed most Americans to go to bed believing both that Clinton had won Arizona by more than 25 points and that that margin was the result of nearly half of Arizona’s precincts reporting their live-voting results. Neither was true.

In fact, as of the time of that 61.5% to 36.1% “win,” not a single precinct in Arizona had reported its Election Day results.

Indeed, more than two and a half hours after polls closed in Arizona, officials there had counted only 54,000 of the estimated 431,000 Election Day ballots.

When final tallies and early voting are combined, the numbers change drastically from what were the initially reported margins of victory: the 25 point lead in Missouri was a tie, the 30 points in Illinois becomes a 1.8% margin and Ohio changes from 30 points to 13.8%

Abramson asserts that the national election is actually a race with a 5% margin, just squeaking outside margins of error. You'd never know it, would you, with all the calls from Democrats everywhere for Bernie Sanders to cede a race he still stands at least an outside chance of winning.

Say, has anyone mentioned that Bernie won two out of three primaries last night? Idaho was Bernie Sanders – 77%
Hillary Clinton – 23%, Utah was Bernie Sanders – 78%/Hillary Clinton – 21% and Arizona was Bernie Sanders – 40%
Hillary Clinton – 58% with lots of accounts of voter chaos.

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