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Hillary Clinton

TwilightZone

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20. Sometimes, I think they're doing it on purpose.

Reply to Stuckinthebush (Reply #19)

Thu May 26, 2016, 07:53 AM

May 2016

Last night, one of the usual suspects was posting data from the 2008 election. The data posted clearly indicated that Obama did not have a majority of pledged delegates when he became the presumptive nominee, but the projected supers put him over the top. The poster insisted over and over again that the chart they posted said otherwise and that he had a majority. It was basic math.

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