Amid Hawaii delays, the Internet turned to a Google doc for caucus results

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: usa today

Saturday marked the first time Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders swept a full round of caucuses, defeating front-runner Hillary Clinton in all three of the day's presidential contests.

But when the mainstream media was nearly silent on his victory, voters took the electoral process into their own hands.

Overnight, a Google document built by a handful of strangers became the go-to source for the caucus results. Its creators were the first to project Sanders' victory, as the mainstream media waited on stalling, overwhelmed caucus organizers.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/03/27/hawaii-caucus-voter-turnout-delays/82316222/

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[AzDar]

1. Because The Revolution Is NOT Being Televised! Power To The People!

Go, Bernie...GO!!

[Bubzer]

6. +1

[Baobab]

8. Because the states and the MEDIA ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOBS

real people have to do it for them.

[Kittycat]

13. +1000

[snooper2]

17. When the revolution starts can I have your tools?

[PatrynXX]

2. yep the media will be the last to know

just like Faux was the last to know that Mittens was not gonna win

[highoverheadspace]

3. The MSM has their marching orders.....

and We the People have Bernie! Be aware that at Google is actually totally onboard with the establishment nd isn't really on our side either. I think we got lucky and got in front of them this time around.

http://truepublica.org.uk/global/google-able-effect-regime-change-appears/

Last week truepublica reported that four months ago, Google created a new holding company called Alphabet and that Eric Schmidt the new Executive Chairman of Alphabet, and therefore Google had decided to accept the offer of leading the Pentagon advisory board with a view to “bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the US military.” We questioned the ethics and moral judgement of both Schmidt and Google in joining forces with the biggest killing machine in modern times, certainly since the world wars.

We pointed to the meeting between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange back in 2011, supposedly organised to discuss a book Schmidt was writing who was unexpectedly accompanied by a Jared Cohen. Cohen had moved to Google from the U.S. State Department in 2010. He had been a slick ideas guy at two U.S. administrations, known to be something of a courtier from the world of policy think tanks sympathetic to US foreign policy. He was a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton.

Assange asserts that Schmidt was acting directly on behalf of Washington with a documented relationship that put him close to President Obama and Clinton and as Assange puts it: “Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and “corporate responsibility” work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s “director of regime change.”

[questionseverything]

15. good point

but as long as people are double checking with screen shots and hard copy we will catch any changes

i don't know who is doing the spreadsheet for the caucuses but i applaud them

i always assumed bernie's team had someone doing this but there is no reason citizens shouldn't help

[cui bono]

4. Fuck the Establishment!

https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/541346817684380033/

https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/321444492130271963/

https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/240520436322463102/

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[Bubzer]

5. +1

[Duppers]

18. + a zillion.

[nikto]

7. Swear to God ...

The Korporate media blacked it out intentionally. so they wouldn't have to say, Bernie swept all 3 states.


JMO, but I am correct.

[cloudythescribbler]

9. this WASN'T the MSM -- it was the Hawaii Democratic Party

In part there is the issue of the time-zone. But clearly the results could have come out starting much earlier, and it was the Democratic Party of Hawai'i who insisted on not releasing the totals until every i was dotted and every t crossed. The media merely followed suit -- broadcasting 'reliable' 'official' results

As with Trump, even without any kind of agenda of promotion or demotion of a candidate, the functioning of the MSM is predictable enough that a savvy party, be it Donald Trump or the Hawai'i Democratic establishment (and no doubt the DNC in the shadows behind them), can play the MSM

And that's what happened here.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. The corporate shenanigans are amazing...

[Thespian2]

11. The Revolution does not need

M$M...everyone seems to be contributing their bit, like these folks who took it upon themselves to make sure the results got out...and it is working...

[riderinthestorm]

12. That really was amazing last night. Following along as it built was a true exercise in democracy

and free speech.

[Ccarmona]

14. Election Results Certainly Isn't as Important

As re-runs of Caught on Camera?

[itsrobert]

16. Seen the link to the Google Doc

But I didn't open it. I was afraid it might contain a virus and I didn't want to feel the burn.