I'm Back! Alpha's Primary watchers live blog for W.V. & Nebraska
Hi guys!
Sorry I missed the last one, with family in town I haven't had a second to do anything but clean and entertain, lol!
I sent them all off to Disney Land as present for my wife's graduatio, for a few days of a quite house for me, and of course, to allow me to able to hang with my C99P Peeps for tonight's primary. 
I will update this post with the Guardians links and the TYT live feed once they go up (probably closer to 6:30ish EST).
The first polls to close will be West Virginia at 7:30PM EST followed by Nebraska at 9:00PM EST.
I look forward to seeing you guys! I got a new bottle of 12 year old barrel aged Scotch, a fresh bag and a positive feeling about tonight!
Hopefully we won't have to look at Mini-Hillary tonight much at all.
Go Bernie! This shit ain't over till WE say it's over!
Zoe and Loki are sitting here in Alpha's Election Central ready to assist me as usual (If by assist you mean repeatedly pestering me for cookies and scratchies, lol.)
I think Zoe may be in love with Bernie, whenever I have one of his speeches on TV she comes and sits right in front of it, it's actually kinda odd. (It would be scary if she did it for Clinton, I would have to cut her cookie rations which could lead to trouble. )
These should help keep you smiling until the results start trickling in.
I think this last one is obvious pro-spider propaganda. (I make my wife handle them, I would rather deal with a 6 foot snake than a 1/2 inch spider... 
)
And again I apologize for missing the last one, I hope I didn't let anyone down.
Update:
Ok, apparently the original Live Blog exploded or something and is down so here it goes again.
Here is the TYT Live feed.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-egIbi05o]
and here is the Guardian's vote tracker link
Comments
Excellent
This and the Guardian update page saves having to trundle over to the great orange ugly.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I left the Great Orange
I left the Great Orange Shithole on March 1st and have not returned. Don't want to give smarmy Kos any traffic. Always enjoy this post on election night. Looking forward to tonite and many more.
Congrats on your wife's gaduation.
Nursing school? My daughter marches for her BS, RN in a week and a half.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Yep! Well, she got pinned as an RN. Still has to take like 3
more classes for her full Bachelors though.
Then we have like a 8 month reprieve and she starts the Masters program.
She's not sure if she wants to go towards education or administration though for the Masters, I am thinking Administration for the Pay but she may enjoy the Teaching side more. (I think she should try teaching first, it's not for everyone but I enjoyed it when I was an instructor for my Dept.)
Congrats to your Daughter! While I admit I may be biased. in my experience it takes a really special kind of person to be a Nurse and we need more of those kind of people in the world.
Virtually 80% of the Nurses and CNA's I know are either Pro-Sanders or at least really, really like him, even the Republican ones. Bernie really could be our best chances to unite the divide that has breached us politically in this country based on the fact that even the Republicans I know that are totally against his policies still like and respect the guy, we NEED this as a nation so badly.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Not my daughter, HRC for her.
But she is politically unaware (although pro-union at her hospital) and also not registered to vote. I didn't push it, wanting to suppress the vote in NY.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Welcome Back
Missed you last week. It was an exciting one. Let's have an even more exciting one today.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
oh good lord - glad your back
It way to early in the day to get wound up but ty!
I'm 'berning' the candle at both ends here in CA. So are we all. No money from central coming in for literature or offices yet, except for two -- Oakland and LA somewhere. But we have had a great ground game here and have had since we all rushed to Nevada. Hold on to your socks. We are gonna win this motherfucker.
Having said that, I wonder which counties you-know-whollery is going to try to steal. SF and LA cause they have the most delegates, I'm guessing. I worry. Early voting starts today, I think? I will double check. Vote early, vote often.
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Yes, I'm checking my voter registration
on a weekly basis. (SF voter here). So far no Shenanigans. I'm register as 'no party affiliation' like I always have been.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
you know you have to request a dem ballot
at your voting station if you are not registered dem. If you are vote-by-mail then you have to request in advance a dem ballot. I have to do this myself asap.
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I agree...
It was a bit early to throw this up there but I figured if I did it would commit me to making sure I am done with all this housework in time to get on and do it.
If I know there is a reward at the end of it I have an easier time pushing myself through the pain to finish the project, so I set my "Reward" to be making some time to enjoy myself having some Scotch and chill with everyone watching the results come in tonight.
Also, with my absence last time I wanted to give all my friends a heads up that I would be back tonight.
Ok, enough screwing around back to work Alpha!!!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Thank you for hosting
I was a poor substitute last week, glad you are back on and taking over the hosting duties.
Lets go mountaineers' feel the Bern!
Oh, pshaw! You're just being modest.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Oh no you weren't a poor substitute at all.
I was so glad you did it. I was going through withdrawals.
Thanks for jumping on that! I was hoping someone would.
I was bummed I couldn't be here for that one. Looks like it was quite a good one too.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
While we are waiting for election returns
Here's an interesting news tidbit from Lee Camp.
Remember the voter purge in Brooklyn before the NY primary?
- They fired the responsible election official, Diane Rudiano. I assume that implies everyone agrees the purge was wrong -- a firing offense.
Now why would she purge the voters?
Video is pretty funny if you have 7 minutes.
https://youtu.be/QWOXH3AP_hQ
SPOILER ALERT - DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE GOING TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
- In Sept 2014, a rat infested NYC brownstone building was sold for $6.6M ($1.1M over market value). Nice profit if you can make it.
- The brownstone was owned by Diane Rudiano.
- The buyer is the daughter of a Clinton super delegate.
Small world when the world is controlled by the Clintons.
PS Alphalop, thanks for doing the live blog again.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I'm glad you mentioned the brownstone (payoff)
Here's two articles also touching on that topic:
I posted the video in my Bernie diary earlier.
Alternative media is doing such a great job of filling the void that is TV news. I don't know why Fox News doesn't have this story plastered everywhere. Trump too. I'd be beating her to death with all of the primaries she's stolen.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Do we need international elections monitoring?
Corruption is a good reason to ask for international help with regard to our elections. Maybe the Scandinavian countries or France could give us a hand with this. Looks like we can't hold a clean election on our own.
no, you need new laws, not nannies from Europe /nt
Until we actually have new rules,
it would seem we're in dire need of nannies from somewhere, in the meantime, to monitor what has clearly and obviously become a farce in the US. Let's have an independent observer or five in the last few rounds of the American primaries, before somebody drops the pretense of "one person, one vote" altogether. Short of mass insurrection, I'm not sure what other choices there are, besides passively accepting this. And that is no longer a tenable option.
Truly, I welcome other short-term ideas, because IMO, it is unacceptable that this government screams bloody murder about "democracy and fair elections" abroad and yet they don't give a shit about the votes of their own citizens.
Unacceptable.
Thank you so much
...for your continued efforts to break the site with the massively popular open threads. We'll do our best to contain your revelry.
*chews his fingernails and eyes the server*
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Let us know when you smell burnt silicon
and see smoke. When you see the CPU usage bar pinned at 99%, say good night.
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LoL! Yeah, the servers can get a bit wonky during high traffic..
But I am just grateful to have someplace fun to do them since I can't bring myself to go to the GOS anymore, lol!
What causes the problem? Bandwidth issues, ironing out the code for the site or is it on hardware side of things?
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
It's a combination of things
Basically you're really popular
It's not a question of bandwidth, it's the frequent server requests.
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Thank you progdog and JtC
Where else can anyone get such responsive tech services but here.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
WooHoo! Wait, does that mean I have to sit at the cool kids...
Table? (Cause I don't get along well with them usually, lol!)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
The cool kids
They're coming to sit at your table! Up is down, left is right, the world is crazy!
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
You are hilarious, lol!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Great - thanks - Mini-Hilly vs. Sturdy-Bernie
who falls from the ladder first?
Thank you!
I feel a deep loyalty to Liepar Destin over on the GOH (gaping orange hole) -- the only reason I go there anymore -- so I'll see how I do splitting my attention. I really appreciate you hosting the thread!
I love his stuff, but I just cannot bring myself to go there
right now. It is just too damn toxic and bad for my mood.
They let the inmates take over the asylum with administrative approval and it only seems to get worse and worse.
You would think once it looked almost certain that their candidate would win they would be a little less assholeish, but nope, not the Clintonites...
They remind me of the type of person that would curb stomp someone they already beat in a fight that was completely out of it...
There are some real ugly people over there and some of the worst offenders I never would have suspected as being as RW as they are...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
It's a good question for the server team
Edit: Opps, this reply was meant for your question above about server traffic.
My guess would be bandwidth. People hitting refresh every 30 secs keeps the server busy. And if the page has lots of embedding videos, and heavy images (500k-1M in size), your browser takes longer to retrieve all the media and build the page.
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Disneyland?
Wow, in the olden days you gave the kids a quarter to go to the movies to get them out of the house.
Asparaguuuuuuuuuuus
LoL, Right!?!?
Unfortunately my wife has Champagne tastes while we are on a beer budget.
But she has worked so hard on her schooling while still working nights that she deserves to get to do whatever she wants for her reward. (Not that I ever had the ability to resist giving her whatever I can, lol!)
Plus it gets a mother in law, sister in law and 2 nieces below the age of 3 out of my house for a few days.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Point of Clarification- Nebraska is Republican only
Bernie won the Nebraska demo caucus on March 5.
By the way, if Bernie wins West Virginia then he will have won all the states that begin with the letter W
Not sure what that means or is of value, just thought I would throw that out there.
Not correct
We did have a caucus, yes (Bernie by 58%), now we are having a Dem primary. The pres. part of the ticket is officially not binding (as the delegates are already committed) but various downticket races are still to be decided.
Dang smart people always right
Thanks for the clarification to my clarification- I learn something new everyday even thought I try to avoid it.
It's not smartness,
it's just that I live in NE so, first hand knowledge. I wouldn't mind if it were firsthand knowledge of somewhere else, but, it's where I am, sigh.
I try to toss in the results of the Republican races too when
they are close or at closing, but don't spend much time dwelling on them.
Trump is the only one left in the race at this time right? Did none of the other candidates just "Suspend" their runs in the event he self destructs or did they all officially withdraw? (I haven't looked closely at the republican race since it became apparent that Donald would be their candidate. )
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
So happy you are doing this again. I seriously
missed you last Tuesday... lol..> These blogging habits are easy to form and now you are my go-to peep for Primaries. Thanks again. Love how you do it.
Don't believe everything you think.
Thanks! I think it's great fun and enjoy doing it with you guys!
Ummm insert something witty here, I got nothing.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
ty for hosting again, Alpha.
Replaced by your friendly neighborhood progdog
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Hey prodog, thank you very much. You guys are the best!
i'll try to never make that mistake again! I meant to make the image smaller, not humongous!
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Fatal error, trying to fix!
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
I get an error message
When I try to open this with the title link.
I can't seem to get in.
But, yay Nebraska!!!!
The people, united, will never be defeated.
It's back up!!! Woohoo!!
Thanks C99P Code Gnomes!!!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
No problem :)
This essay... is clear!
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
Is it just me (the deja vu version)
or has Joe Biden been getting a lot of air time as of late?
It's so ominously prevalent. Even Biden's wife was the (first ever as far as I know) Special Guest Final Jeopardy Answer Reader yesterday. The category was "Legislation".
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Yeah, I saw that.
Are we running for something?
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Thanks, Alphalop
Sorry about my multiple posts above. Can I delete those?
I'm looking forward to good results for Bernie tonight!
Took care of it for ya
Please pardon our dust!
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
Good looking out Brother. :)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Thanks, propdog!
; )
Looks like the TYT Link went down. Hillary is attacking the web!
I knew she would invade SOMETHING, I just didn't expect it this fast....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
It's back up just refresh. :)
Long live the Revolution!!! lol!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Polls closing
in 1 minute!!!
Bernie early leader as per CNN
The Guardian says Trump
has won West Virginia. Zero% precincts reporting, lol.
Well that seems a little unfair.
From my perspective it's a three way tie for last place.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Now that's funny! LoL!
Made me spit rice. (At least it wasn't the hot and sour soup, my keyboard is bad enough already.)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
According to MSNBC
Sanders won
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Hey Alpha, good to see you back in the harness again :=)
Go WV! Go Bernie!
I saw a thing today - most of WV Bernie voters are voting Trump in the fall if Clinton is the Dem nominee. I guess if your choices are down to two pretend Republicans, you may as well vote for the pretender who wants to make deals, rather than the pretender who wants to make war. Heavens forfend - Go Bernie Go!
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I think the lessor evil argument isn't working this year because
one has to actually be LESS evil to qualify.
I think they are both equally evil, just in different areas.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
That's It!!!
That's the one thing I couldn't put my finger on. Clinton and Trump are in a virtual tie as to who is disliked more. It makes complete sense now.
That's why I get the oogie feeling in the pit of my stomach at the thought of voting Clinton as the "lesser of two evils". It's a knee-jerk reaction. I'm so normalized in thinking that's all I'll ever get to vote for.
The blinders have been removed. There is no 'lesser' evil this time. There is 'only' evil between the two.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
it's funny, but not really ha ha funny, that we are having
debates on a progressive blog about just who is the "lesser evil" of the two.
It's way past time to form a new party.
In the mean time no more lesser-evil voting for me. This election right here is where that strategy gets us.
I won't vote for the hate-spewing Donald Trump, nor will I vote for the BFF of the mass murderer Henry Kissinger. And I could never vote for Clinton and then be able to look the daughter of Berta Cáceres in the eye should I ever be so fortunate as to meet her.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Agree 100% I am done settling for lessor evil.
From now on I will only use my (voting) powers for good!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
This sums it up for me- Hellery v T.Rump
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I was then and still am Another Mother for Peace
Wow, the story about the Mathematician on the airplane
is just crazy!
Some people are too stupid to be allowed to breath.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
That story takes 'Fear the Stranger'
to a whole new level. Absolute absurdity. DHS propaganda is working as designed. Fear Everything.
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just got a tweet from my husband that Bernie wins
no idea who...
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from an email from Bernie n/t
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Still no precincts reporting. I wanna know how much Sanders beat
her by.
I hope it was a blowout....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
After all that it the most import part.
It's not just winning, but by how much.
I've just been reading up on how the delegates are divided in WV. The rules are a computer programmer's nightmare.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
With 0% reporting Hillary is up almost 9 points, lol!
Statewide results
1/1,761 precincts (0%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
1,678
50.6%
Bernie Sanders
1,370
41.3%
3,314 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Guardian is finally reporting...
It has Hillary winning.
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early/absentee votes
I think - they always go Clinton
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Party machines- control the absentee votes/voters
I actually saw where the Republicans party members in my old home county (deep Red) would help senior citizens complete and deliver their absentee ballots for them. Mighty neighborly of them to help a person out
Just another form of voter Fraud and suppression.
Just got a Bernie email saying they won WV
What is going on here?
I'm confused...
Exit polls made it pretty clear that Sanders won.
so they are busy "Adjusting" the numbers to make it by less probably.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
They can't be relying on exit polls
We all know those must be adjusted to match the rigged machines. Not like they are the international standard for election fairness, or anything.
/snark
us too
They must know something we don't?
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I think the media is going solely by exit polls.
Which makes me think the exit polling wasn't even close.
But it does appear Hillary got her usual initial lead from mail in ballots. But she usually garners a bit more than 50%. Wonder what's up with that as well.
I love speculating, but I love facts better. We'll just have to wait and see.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
NYT page just updated to
Hillary 45.8
Bernie 45.0
The Guardian too. nt
With 0.1% reporting Clinton now leads Bernie by .8 points
2/1,761 precincts (0.1%) reporting
Hillary Clinton
5,074
45.8%
Bernie Sanders
4,994
45.0%
11,086 total votes
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well, my absentee mail in
Well, my absentee mail in ballot and one of my roommates voted for Bernie
the healthy roommate voted at the polls today for Bernie.
My household adults voted Bernie all the way!
NYT Based covergae has WV at 1% reporting, with Clinton 45.8 to Sanders 45.0% and that is just now reported. My guess is that they might have done the first regions around the Capital, and likely establishment types there.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Cenk is preparing to rant
I don't think Bernie would send out that email
unless he had some solid information.
As to what it is, I don't know.
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