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I keep hearing that Democrats rigged both the election and the primaries. Can someone please explain how this was done?
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Someone was against the Denocrats and therefore the Democrats rigged the election because of evil.
laughing dog
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If the Democrats had not rigged the election, they would have won. They lost. Hence they rigged the election. QED.
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They rigged it so they lost by backing someone so obviously hypocritical and corrupt as Hillary Clinton, and stiffing Bernie Sanders.
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It's interesting when that some people assume a rigging when the candidate wins with the majority vote!
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No explanation so far. Funny that being a post you made in another thread is what inspired me to create this one.
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The DNC wanted to minimize the impact of Bernie Sanders so Clinton would get the nomination. They did this by creating political attacks against Sanders. This is apparently considered "rigging an election".
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What you're actually seeing is Republican projection.
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I see it a lot from the Bernie bros.
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Yabut his is the closest guess yet. In fact, the Dems rigged it because they knew Hillary would be a one-term wonder who would provoke such a backlash that they'd never see the Whitehouse again for the rest of the century. So instead, they made sure that an idiotic fat orange slob would get elected, and provoke a backlash that would keep the 'Pugs out of the Whitehouse for the rest of the century. Neat trick!
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Was there something of great value on those leaks? Something specific? I'm not going to do your homework for you.
How did it become my homework? Shouldn't that fall to the author of the OP?
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The OP asks a question. Which means the author of the OP is looking for answer. Citing some thread without any explanation as to how or why it addresses the question is, to say the least, unhelpful and unresponsive.
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Republicans did that here in Michigan, actually asking Republican voters to cross over during the primary to vote for the tool Jeffrey Fieger, making him the Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Regardless, it does not in my view rise to the level of "rigging" an election. More like "manipulating".
In the Democrats case it is somewhat more distasteful because they use their friends in the media, and somewhat more amusing in that they lost to the guy they tried to manipulate into contention.
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No, in the Dems case, it is merely directing voters attention to particular information they can choose to interpret however they want and nothing close to "rigging". Whereas in the GOP case it is very much rigging an election, not quite the same as but not very far from having people cast fraudulent votes on behalf of dead people. They had people dishonestly cast votes for a candidate they hated and would never vote for in the real election just to ensure that actual Democratic leaning voters would not have the opportunity to vote for their actual preferred candidate in the general election. That is infinitely more distasteful and completely undermines the democratic purpose of the primaries.