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[ivysaur12]

Wyoming is a state that I know nothing about.

 

[dramatis]

Yellowstone National Park and geysers right?

 

[And_Gignac]

You guys this think is because of the bad week he had? Or did polling kind of predict this?

Edit: Holy shit, I have a tag!

Surrogate ballots for people too old to move. Basically old people fucking it up.

 

[Holmes]

Wyoming is a state that I know nothing about.

I had a client from Wyoming about a week ago from Cody and we talked quite a bit about the state. It was interesting because I also don't know much about it.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

OLD PEOPLE STOP VOTING AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, U-G-H

Protectionism isn't good for their grandchildren.

 

[Kangi]

Wyoming is a state that I know nothing about.

Wyoming is a state that there's nothing to know about.

 

[User 463088]

Wyoming is a state that I know nothing about.

To be fair, who does?

How does one get a tag anyway?

 

[ivysaur12]

I wonder if the unqualified stuff really hurt him

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

I think my grandparents (or at least the ones that would vote D) are Bernie people, though I've only gathered this secondhand. They're white and live in Oregon and my grandmother has been fighting for public health care there for like 30 years so it isn't too surprising, I haven't actually talked with them about it though.

 

[Hilbert]

To be fair, who does?

How does one get a tag anyway?

In my case I made a stupid typo that made several people laugh.

 

[Macho Madness]

Yellowstone National Park and geysers right?

It's a very pretty state with nothing in it besides Yellowstone.

Also Cheyenne smells.

 

[Loudninja]

To be fair, who does?

How does one get a tag anyway?

Its fun to say it.

Wyoming just rolls off the tongue.

 

[Holmes]

So the only two caucuses so far that Sanders has overperformed Obama 08 are Washington and Alaska.

 

[Macho Madness]

It's a very pretty state with nothing in it besides Yellowstone.

Also Cheyenne smells.

Okay and Jackson Hole but fart

 

[catmincer]

Brokeback Mountain was set in Wyoming too.

 

[Thagomizer]

To be fair, who does?

How does one get a tag anyway?

Wait for a mod to get drunk and turn a thread into a tag thread. Post in tag thread

 

[Daniel B·]

Whatever the final result, it'll be another state won by Bernie (17 vs 20), and the 14 delegates up-for-grabs represents just 0.8% of the remaining 1661 delegates...

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

Whatever the final result, it'll be another state won by Bernie (17 vs 20), and the 14 delegates up-for-grabs represents just 0.008% of the remaining 1661 delegates...

Whatever the final result, delegates are the only thing that matter.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

As much as I would have liked to see Sanders win another 70 to 30 in a caucus, the way his reddit is reacting to winning by only about 10% is freaking stupid. At least they are consistent though, at least they cared about Wyoming from the start.

Anyway, ballots were mailed out via PACs and such, some of them didn't even have Sanders on it, apparently its legal if the state's SoS allows it.

Source: Twitter (lol)

 

[johnsmith]

Wait for a mod to get drunk and turn a thread into a tag thread. Post in tag thread

This is the best reason to be on gaf Saturday nights

 

[FloydtheFathead]

To be fair, who does?

How does one get a tag anyway?

Magic.. You just get one when some thinks you deserve one.

BG got one Adam.. Stump (I believe it was him) gave him one.. Oh boy.

 

[Holmes]

Whatever the final result, it'll be another state won by Bernie (17 vs 20), and the 14 delegates up-for-grabs represents just 0.008% of the remaining 1661 delegates...

Sure but if Sanders can only muster up a 7-7 tie in a state that similar states have given him 80% victories then it's over. And there's only one more mainland caucus left - on June 7 in North Dakota.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

As much as I would have liked to see Sanders win another 70 to 30 in a caucus, the way his reddit is reacting to winning by only about 10% is freaking stupid. At least they are consistent though, at least they cared about Wyoming from the start.

Anyway, ballots were mailed out via PACs and such, some of them didn't even have Sanders on it, apparently its legal if the state's SoS allows it.

Democracy in action.

 

[NeoXChaos]

A guy from PR here thinks it could be a Bernie win? Demographics and voting trends say otherwise. Yeah it an open caucus but so were the other territories and Hillary won them

 

[Officerrob]

Whatever the final result, it'll be another state won by Bernie (17 vs 20), and the 14 delegates up-for-grabs represents just 0.8% of the remaining 1661 delegates...

All that matters is delegates, and if Bernie hits projects he needs to catch-up

 

[Particle Physicist]

I don't think supers are essentially a bad thing. But they show a dissonance with the current state of the democratic voters (members) and the elites. Bernie and his support is not based in a personality cult, but in ideas that a big part of the base agrees.

You would presume such division would be present too with the elites.

Huh? Hillary has more votes and regular delegates than Bernie.

 

[Holmes]

Democracy in action.

But delegates are chosen at the caucus sites. They're not chosen at their nursing homes.

lol

 

[dramatis]

As much as I would have liked to see Sanders win another 70 to 30 in a caucus, the way his reddit is reacting to winning by only about 10% is freaking stupid. At least they are consistent though, at least they cared about Wyoming from the start.

If there is anything that is a demonstration of "caring about Wyoming from the start", it would be those surrogate ballots.

 

[User 406]

Idk if there's anything else that can be the thread title after she wins the nomination.

Someone will jump the gun with a PoliGAF OT | THE WIRE - GET IT COZ BERNIE'S LIKE THAT ONE GUY AND COME AT THE QUEEN YOU BEST NOT MISS AMIRITE ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ITS TRUE

 

[Holmes]

Queen overperforming her mark in Wyoming. <3

Me not thinking about Wyoming for another 4 years. <3

 

[And_Gignac]

As much as I would have liked to see Sanders win another 70 to 30 in a caucus, the way his reddit is reacting to winning by only about 10% is freaking stupid. At least they are consistent though, at least they cared about Wyoming from the start.

Anyway, ballots were mailed out via PACs and such, some of them didn't even have Sanders on it, apparently its legal if the state's SoS allows it.

This is the main reason of this result, I believe.

Spoiler

BOOMERS

Unless the going negative really affected which, even if it was true, I dont think is the main reason atm when we have a more empirically provable reason for why Sanders underperformed.

Huh? Hillary has more votes and regular delegates than Bernie.

Does she has 2000% more?

But delegates are chosen at the caucus sites. They're not chosen at their nursing homes.

lol

But surrogate votes are factored in.

 

[Macho Madness]

I'm not even sure what Claire McCaskill is doing here: https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/718840149098926082

But werk queen or whatever

 

[eBay Huckster]

god damn it why won't this avatar background stay transparent

(is it because i picked the completely wrong proportions)

 

[Macho Madness]

god damn it why won't this avatar background stay transparent

gotta save it as a png

 

[eBay Huckster]

gotta save it as a png

it's a png, but i think the dimensions are exactly backward

e: BOOM, GOT IT

 

[ivysaur12]

I'm not even sure what Claire McCaskill is doing here: https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/718840149098926082

But werk queen or whatever

I don't think she quite understands what memes are.

But yes, werk fuck queen of the riverlands.

 

[Holmes]

But surrogate votes are factored in.

So? If 95 Sanders supporters and 5 Clinton supporters show up to caucus, and Clinton wins the surrogate ballots 90-0, it'd be a 1-1 tie for that county and any of the 5 Clinton supporters at the caucus can choose to become a delegate.

 

[sc0la]

What would the delegate count be if super delegates didn't exist, and were instead apportioned proportionally through all contests?

Some one who excels at spread sheeting should calculate this.

 

[ivysaur12]

@Taniel
With results from 21 of 24 caucus sites, Sanders is at 56.23% in Wyoming.

The threshold for a 8-6 delegate split is... 56.25%!

wowowwowowwow

 

[NYCmetsfan]

With results from 21 of 24 caucus sites, Sanders is at 56.23% in Wyoming.

The threshold for a 8-6 delegate split is... 56.25%!

edit: damn it ivy

the revolution!

 

[Macho Madness]

What would the delegate count be if super delegates didn't exist, and were instead apportioned proportionally through all contests?

Some one who excels at spread sheeting should calculate this.

I did some math like a week ago on this but did winner take all supers for states won.

Hillary still crushes

 

[eBay Huckster]

What would the delegate count be if super delegates didn't exist, and were instead apportioned proportionally through all contests?

Some one who excels at spread sheeting should calculate this.

i'll do this tonight if someone doesn't beat me to it

 

[Macho Madness]

So at best he gets +2 out of Wyoming most likely

 

[NYCmetsfan]

wowowwowowwow

is this like 3 votes? serious question.

Edit: with 41,000 dems registered its like 8 voter difference that could give sanders +2 (wyoming voters have to much power tbh)

 

[studyguy]

edit: damn it ivy

the revolution!

Just came back from a run what the fuck is going on in Wyoming?

 

[eBay Huckster]

one precinct left. one delegate left to be apportioned.

 

[Macho Madness]

Just came back from a run what the fuck is going on in Wyoming?

Bernie won it by a little when he probably should have won it by a lot

 

[Holmes]

So at best he gets +2 out of Wyoming most likely

It'll be 7-7 or 8-6. Underwhelming for Sanders. I think the fact that Wyoming has so little delegates, and thus a high threshold to win a large amount, really helped Clinton. The counties with 2 delegates for example require a candidate to basically be non-viable to get no delegates. Those with 3 require a 66-33 split for the winner to net 1 delegate (2-1) and so on.

So yeah. Caucuses.

 

[And_Gignac]

So? If 95 Sanders supporters and 5 Clinton supporters show up to caucus, and Clinton wins the surrogate ballots 90-0, it'd be a 1-1 tie for that county and any of the 5 Clinton supporters at the caucus can choose to become a delegate.

Please have mercy of me Holmes. I am livid.

 

[Daniel B·]

How come Hillary's pledged delegate lead crept back over 200 (216; 1303 vs 1087), since Bernie's win in Wisconsin, where he gained ten extra delegates (48 vs 38)?