Alpha's Primary Election Live Blog for 4/26

It's that time again!

Lets hope for some upsets tonight. Smile

I will be posting the results as I get them and just generally chatting and posting my inanae thoughts as usual and hope you guys join me again.

Here is a link for the YTT live show.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48o2S1cPoo]

(If the feed changes I will try to update it.

Also here is the link for the Guardian Live results with Mini-Bernie.

I'm gonna try to stick with it till all the results are in but I am feeling a bit under the weather tonight but as long as it doesn't get worse I will be here. Smile

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Lenzabi's picture

Not even hidden in Maryland that the system is rigged! Hillary and Trump at 0% reporting oin shows the false narrative, what a sham is our nation!

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
130/701 precincts (18.5%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
30,113
49.4%
Hillary Clinton
29,795
48.9%
60,988 total votes

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

with 58.7% for Bern just now.

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Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
146/701 precincts (20.8%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
34,347
49.9%
Hillary Clinton
33,271
48.3%
68,832 total votes

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Alphalop's picture

Bernie takes last county and widens his lead.
Statewide results
28/146 precincts (19.1%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
10,069
59.0%
Hillary Clinton
6,700
39.3%
17,057 total votes

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

Mark from Queens's picture

TYT just had it.

Meanwhile, Bernie is giving one of this best speeches ever. CNN not running it, instead running empty podiums.

I fucking loathe the MSM so much.

He's laying it down so clearly, with such focus, on the insanity of a for-profit insurance system running our healthcare i.e the ridiculous co-payments, deductibles, etc. Had this conversation with two women working at the local pharmacy today. Both openly received my public criticism of it, agreed and joined in with their own. Everyone gets it.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Alphalop's picture

This just shows their obvious bias.

They don't want money out of politics because they get a big chunk of it.

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Bollox Ref's picture

They're just coming home.

Be it known, Her Majesty Hillary I doth deign to suffer your very presence.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
157/701 precincts (22.3%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
35,753
50.1%
Hillary Clinton
34,347
48.1%
71,381 total votes

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Shahryar's picture

Bernie will start picking up support as the rest of the state comes in. I'll be interested to see what Pittsburgh does.

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Mark from Queens's picture

Tackling issue after issue, with fantastic local anecdotes of history too. Stitching together the history of mass protest movements to every progressive value we've ever had.

If anybody missed it you must see the PBS film "Mine Wars" about how badly the Capitalist Economic Elite destroyed generations of WV miners.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
652/9,168 precincts (7.1%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
62,085
58.4%
Bernie Sanders
43,394
40.8%
106,244 total votes

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OLinda's picture

Just want to say thank you for the live blog and updates. Might not post too much tonight, but I'll be checking in and sure appreciate it!!

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Statewide results
51/146 precincts (34.9%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
18,781
56.9%
Hillary Clinton
13,690
41.5%
33,022 total votes

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

tho' media have already called it for Hill.

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Shahryar's picture

this, from the Guardian, re: Delaware...

330/314 precincts (105%) reporting

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for a sec.

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Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
330/314 precincts (105%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
52,346
59.9%
Bernie Sanders
34,107
39.0%
87,421 total votes

LoL!

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Haikukitty's picture

Those must be those "special" corporate precincts that aren't on the map Biggrin

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Shahryar's picture

where each one represents 15,000 regular voters

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53307 H
34867 B

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mimi's picture

Sigh - 59.8 % for HRC. The lovely state where she and Trump have so many nice corporations or something?

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Mark from Queens's picture

Even though I think I saw that when he died Bernie admitted he didn't know much about him. That's ok.

To take that point another way, the amount of artistic outpouring for the Bernie campaign, from artwork to music to videos, etc, towers over the stagnant deathtrap of Hillary's commodified, platitude-drenched superficiality which inspires nothing comparatively.

That means something to me. Because that's a big part of movement-building.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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Statewide results
22/1,989 precincts (1.1%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
34,708
62.7%
Bernie Sanders
18,235
33.0%
55,333 total votes

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Haikukitty's picture

I don't think the others have the lead in a single precinct...

Wow.

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Statewide results
72/146 precincts (49.3%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
27,892
57.0%
Hillary Clinton
20,219
41.3%
48,920 total votes

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Haikukitty's picture

Two out of Five would be a pretty decent showing and plenty of reason to keep going to the end. See.... I'm pleasantly surprised as I predicted in the first comment. Biggrin

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I can't believe she's winning, even on the Eastern Shore. Yuck, Maryland, all my neighbors disgust me.

ETA: Even GARRET County? Its right next to West Va. This state...

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JayRaye's picture

I'm ironing a few shirts for work and watching TYT.

Hoping for the best but may need some shoulders to cry upon later.

Hope you have a some hankie's to hand out later if we need them.

For the record, I will never give up on Bernie until the convention declares someone else the nominee.

I'm still making my monthly donation and gonna bump that up to weekly just so that Bernie can stay out there on the campaign trail. I'm very very grateful to him for standing up for us working people.

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I agree, I am with Bernie to the end.

A lot can happen between now and then and with that FBI investigation looming anything is possible.

But regardless of who wins the Primary, this fight ain't over.

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whatever he decides to do after the election.

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mimi's picture

66 % to 30.2 % with 3.5 % reporting, in Montgomery County even. That's discouraging.

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Haikukitty's picture

But I guess I should have expected it. The entire state is basically government employees.

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Roger Fox's picture

Only 21% reporting......

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FDR 9-23-33, "If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another way. But do it we will.

Gerrit's picture

soon. TY Alphalop!

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Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Big wins in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota which total 929 delegates. I don't think it's time for the Jill Stein campaign quite yet.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

Berners, we can't give up yet. Bernie isn't so neither should we. Tommorrow is another day to phone bank to the remaining States. Keep the faith in the man, the message and the revolution.

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O.k. When is the next meeting for the revolution?
-FuturePassed on Sunday, November 25, 2018 10:22 p.m.

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Statewide results
2,478/9,168 precincts (27%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
229,202
57.4%
Bernie Sanders
167,073
41.8%
399,597 total votes

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Big wins in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota which total 929 delegates. I don't think it's time for the Jill Stein campaign quite yet.

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66 % to 30.2 % with 3.5 % reporting, in Montgomery County even. That's discouraging.

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they don't feel the pain of social injustice. Lots of educated working women. Not much poverty there. 62.6% White (47.0% Non-Hispanic White), 18.6% Black, 14.9% Asian. Population 1,030,447 as of 2014. and 57.1% had a bachelor's degree.
So, basically the well to do majority white county and the well to do majority afro-american county both preferred Hillary to a large margin, but I think they did so for different reasons. Baltimore is a mystery to me.

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Statewide results
2,902/9,168 precincts (31.6%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
257,909
57.2%
Bernie Sanders
189,347
42.0%
451,187 total votes

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Statewide results
342/701 precincts (48.7%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
79,591
49.7%
Hillary Clinton
77,594
48.4%
160,195 total votes

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Haikukitty's picture

Its killing me!

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Alphalop's picture

Good thing I am feeling too crappy to drink or I might be in trouble, lol!

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Raggedy Ann's picture

Closed primaries prove it. Sad for we, the people.It's imperative this changes.

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Haikukitty's picture

There's no justification for it.

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According to a recent Gallup poll 47% or respondents were independents/unaffiliated. With only 30% Democrats and 20% Republicans. Why should party members be the only people able to determine who the rest of us have to live with for the next 4 years/

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version even though its mini which should automatically make it more likable, lol! Smile

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mimi's picture

on the little platform spewing her word bubbles. Sigh. Ok, it's not a proud moment for Maryland. That's all I can say. They deserve whatever they will get.

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Statewide results
367/701 precincts (52.3%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
84,506
49.8%
Hillary Clinton
81,828
48.3%
169,542 total votes

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Haikukitty's picture

Let's hope he can keep at least ONE MD county

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Nice of he could close that horrible 25% gap

ETA: 35% gap - good lord

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population with 62.7 Afro-Americans, 27.4 % whites and 7.2 % Latino/Hispanics, a county bordering Washington DC to the Northeast, home of the University of Maryland, has 78.3 % to 20.3 % for Hillary with 17.9 percent reporting. That's my county. It's a deep blue county, very conservatively blue apparently.

Well, what is there to say? Nothing much.

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Haikukitty's picture

Same thing. Bunch of lifelong DC government people.

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mimi's picture

that is very confusing to me.

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It seems a little extreme. I'm surprised there's such a big gap in percentages.

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Mark from Queens's picture

Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and Hispanic ones in the Bronx, with 70% wins too? I don't believe at this stage she could be winning with the kind of numbers she had when no one had heard of Bernie. Several months down the line now, and even despite all the backlash of a media blackout and Dem stranglehold on him, he is way more popular and stood to win many more votes (especially from young voters) than he apparently has in these tallies.

Same thing in '08 for Obama. There was one district in Harlem in which he got zero votes...until they went back and "found" some.

There's something fishy going on.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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elderly voters and the women in PG County. I wonder where the younger student voters are. The elderly democratic voters in PG county all take their voting very serious, at least that's what my impression from canvassing was.

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his insistence to see this campaign through to the convention speaks to his devotion to an orderly transition from the "third way" Democrats to another "New Deal" Democratic Party. He has done his part; a new flood of young voters will challenge the Establishment Democrats. It is up to us to keep his ideals alive and not vote for the LOTE Dems. It is time for us to be like the Tea Party Republicans and purge the DINOs from the party. It's either that or form a new party and leave a putrid and stinking corpse of the Democratic Party to history.

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More and more every day.

With their infrastructure to build upon we could really form a viable challenge for 2018/2020 cycles for many lower offices as well as a run for the WH against Hillary.

That is providing the rank and file members of the Green party don't see it as a hostile takeover. I would much rather try to build a new party and form a coalition with them than try to fight against them for control of theirs.

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I think Bernie is a bit more hawkish than Jill on foreign policy but I'm not sure. They got pretty similar positions, I believe, on everything else.

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Haikukitty's picture

That's getting better!

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Statewide results
399/701 precincts (56.9%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
93,345
50.0%
Hillary Clinton
89,668
48.1%
186,546 total votes

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That should set off a feeding frenzy at the GOS....

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if Trump and the Clintons are somehow colluding.

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I was thinking the same thing. He's playing the scary foil to her grownup competence. Hill and Bill went to his wedding and Trump and Bill are golf buddies.

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Haikukitty's picture

to lose to Hillary. I don't know what he could say that he hasn't said...

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maggid's picture

Chelsea and Ivanka ae BFF's.
I have wondered if Trump, the Clintons, and the media have not set up this whole 1% Kabuki theater:
Trump ADMITS that he has been play-acting his whole campaign. Perhaps they agreed he would play the fascist boo-man to scare everyone into voting for HRC and then being relieved we saved the country from descent into the dark ages.
November 9 Chelsea & Ivanka will have lunch somewhere nice, they will split the bill, and the rest of will pay the price.

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I don't know about "the media" planning in advance, but you can bet Camp BillnHill and The Donald enjoyed the hell out of cooking the whole thing up. IMO, Trump gave it away early on when he talked about "I gave her money for...". You wonder if he just didn't take it all that seriously at first, and it's about now that he's wondering what the hell he's gotten himself into. Who knew his idiocy was going to be popular?

And of course, nobody counted on Sanders, this whole thing was going to be over by freaking March, remember?

The whole thing is so contrived at this point, I don't even know why we're putting up with it. It's completely clear that thousands of voters are being denied their vote. These conventions--both of them--are liable to be uglier than anybody thinks, the way the electorate is being treated thus far--you hear story after story of cheating and malfeasance and FSM-knows what else--and nobody in a position to do anything about it to fix it will do so. It's blatant disregard and people are pissed!

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Mark from Queens's picture

she is.

The two most unlikable candidates in the history of presidential campaigning. What a sad, pathetic joke. I still find it so fucking surreal. Everyone is reaching for Idiocracy as a satirical comparison. It's frightening. I'm angry. These two represent the worst of the worst decade (the 80's), in everything it stood for: brash vulture capitalism, gaudy, horrible, cheeseball style, ruthless individualism, artistic and creative vapidity, Worship of the Rich.

Is this really the best we could do?, future historians will constantly perplex over.

I thought I would leave the country after Bush 2004. I'm glad I stayed, especially to participate in OWS and have that epiphany change my life.

This may be that time for real.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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instead of Hillary? This country drives me nuts.

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They have been friends in the past and I'm not sure Trump really wants to be President.

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Trump blows up the Republican party and paves the way for Hillary and gets rewarded somehow. Lots of pictures of them together

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I really don't think anybody expected him to be so completely popular. At this point, I don't know what he could do to blow it up. The more obnoxious he gets, the more people on the right slurp it up. With that in mind, yes, I kinda get the vibe off him lately of "WTF did I get myself into?" What he had to say about Sanders blew my mind earlier. To begin with, he's absolutely right...

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Problem for him is if he did run independent, particularly if one of the other RWNJ's run independently as well then Sanders could indeed win with both parties having a divided vote.

I think Sanders would pick up a LOT of the Independents.

I doubt he could do so anyway though even if he would. It might be too late for him to get onto many states ballots.

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that is already on the ballot. Maybe he can make a coalition deal with the Greens and other small parties so that he gets on every ballot.

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or so states I think.

I do know they are working to increase that number but not sure to what level or how much success they are having.

That is one of the things a Sanders merger could help them achieve. We have the numbers and drive in all 50 states to get them on the ballot. Smile

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Prompted by what, and in what context was it said? (I literally can not stand to listen to a word from that asshole - thanks Alphalop!)

I've been thinking this for months. The two outsider campaigns vs. the two insider campaigns.

In that scenario I can't see how Bernie doesn't win a massive landslide.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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Initially I think...

It's almost as hard to know wtf he is talking about as it is with Clinton...

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He speaks like an 8th grade neanderthal on the playground whose Daddy's riches are there to pick up after his insufferable bloviating and douchebaggery. Every thing is a complete contradictory lie from what he said one minute ago.

She is like a cheap and hollow Hallmark card, with predictable pandering cheap commercial art on the cover, corny swirling script lettering and a gag-fest of empty, meaningless platitudes that say absolutely nothing.

As Cenk said on TYT tonight in what was so indicative of her emptiness and cold calculation, Hillary when asked couldn't even pick a favorite ice cream flavor, because she didn't want to lose the votes of chocolate lovers for instance. Speaking of her and food to illustrate her sheer, transparent phoniness, I think John Oliver had a clip of her eating a hot dog in Iowa. With it just entering her mouth and barely having taken a bite into it she was compelled to immediately say how good it was.

Looking for Kurt, as usual in times like these, to help put things in perspective about the sorry state of the "damned" human race, as Mark Twain put it.

Here we go, an explanation of Vonnegut's "Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons":

A "wampeter" is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail would be a case in point. "Foma" are harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner." A "granfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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Statewide results
4,644/9,168 precincts (50.6%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
439,080
56.9%
Bernie Sanders
326,559
42.3%
772,310 total votes

He flipped a couple of hers, she flipped a couple of his...

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Statewide results
424/701 precincts (60.4%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
98,108
49.6%
Hillary Clinton
95,857
48.5%
197,673 total votes

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Haikukitty's picture

I can't stand it....

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Statewide results
444/701 precincts (63.3%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
102,128
49.3%
Bernie Sanders
101,304
48.9%
207,280 total votes

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