Ah, the coin flip controversy. Iowa caucuses are so crazy that they flip a coin when things get too close. It happened six times this year. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Letting chance decide, even in a small way, who becomes president sounds bizarre, but it didn’t just happen eight years ago. It happened Monday night in at least two Iowa precincts where Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), now locked in what Sanders called a “virtual tie” in the state, fought to a deadlock. And, at least in those two precincts, Clinton won.
In another race, those heads-or-tails contests may not have mattered. But, early Tuesday, Clinton was ahead of Sanders in Iowa by just five “state delegate equivalents,” by that state’s particular jargon. Given that slim margin and the unknown intentions of Martin O’Malley’s eight state delegate equivalents now that the former Maryland governor has has suspended his presidential campaign, those coin flips are looking mighty significant.”*
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Comments
Cenk, I feel better about the coin toss fiasco now after watching that. But! Please forgive me if this is wrong venue to send message to Cenk referencing a yu yube video i watched on your treatise on “Liberal Media” Jan 28. Yes I am new to your format etcetc
I was listening to Sirius xm Progress channel 127. , yesterday feb 2 and the only liberal report that day on Bernie was of course Thom Hartmann whch was measured i think as not to show bias…michaelangello singorelli show was good and felt fairly accurate on represnting Iowa results …but on MIP which i have listen for few years. But a frequent host is a young women..think last name Maxwell…tore into at least one caller she ( maxwell) horribly defending Clinton and her “prog” record bashing bernie…..and “women need to pay attention to w rights where H stands.and what has bernie ever done Mark chimed in as well virtually attacking the bernie callers
and Mark always asks the question now who are yu going to vote for!? if he doesnt make it?? If you know of the broadcast i am speaking wondering if you might at least check out what im referring to. For love of god this is a Primary! Plus it seems like the people on 127 are not as prog as i thot they were. They seem terribly concerned with our ability to understand the stakes whch is frankly insult, and are afraid we wont vote dem in the nationals. The Maxwell host was also pointing out how bernie isnt a true dem..ie independent also “socialist” . Im think well bernie is a progressive which is where dem party must move to or we are frankly fucked :) my opinion. The callers to mip were giving valid reasons for getting on ticket..but neither host was letting them talk…mark even called the one a repub…whch clearly wasnt.
i have written this on my phone so prob made zillion errors but please Cenk or someone from TYT can let me know if this is checked out…and actually is Sirius xm same deal just pretending progress. I am stunned that even this channel 127 seems to be shocked about bernie in the picture. (Not doing their Homework.).
Except for ThomHatmann of course …and Michangello is learning fast i think. Mike Malloy has already left sirius..thrwn up his hands i think…gone internet totally.
Everone is touting hillary on that channel…Bernie…whos Bernie?..oh no chance. Very disheartening we are not going to have anyone like him come forward.
As far as his base i think millenials and i think baby boomers ( thats me)
Thank yu i apologize for not finding the correct place to write this.
There seems to be a general fear mongering out there toward bernie supporters ie “you dont want gop in charge do you??” yada yada in escence saying we are too ignorant to vote responsibly or something like that so we’ll just make up our minds for you.