Posted on 01/31/2016 7:13:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Sad and telling," says Sanders campaign. There's an app for that.
Hillary Clinton's campaign for president is instructing its Iowa caucus leaders to -- in certain cases -- throw support to former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, with the goal blocking her main opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, from securing additional delegates.
The tactical move is rooted in the complex math of the Iowa caucuses Monday night, where the campaign is looking to defeat Sanders in a state whose caucus-goers have historically backed progressive challengers.
A precinct captain, Jerome Lehtola, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the campaign has trained precinct captains to release supporters to O'Malley if the move can make him "viable" without hurting Clinton. A Clinton aide said the campaign has trained more than 4,000 volunteer precinct captains to handle a host of different scenarios, including ones where caucus-goers are released to or recruited from another camp.
"Our precinct leadership teams have worked hard to get to know as many people in their precincts as possible and they'll use those relationships to maximize Hillary Clinton's delegate count depending on which groups are viable on caucus night," the aide said.
The goal, in the caucuses' complex terms, is to cost Clinton no delegates in the state's 1,681 caucuses while ensuring stray O'Malley supporters don't defect to Sanders.....
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I thought O’Malley had almost no supporters?
‘Hillary learned from Operation Chaos.
If Bernie & Emaila Clinton are tied (which they might be in Iowa), then every small bit helps.
If I was a democrat, I would be O’Malley all the way from the first day
I heard Obama did this in 2008 with Edwards and it worked so she will repeat it......not sure it will work due to O’Malley being so far behind.
dems do things different, if Omalley is below 15% his voters then go Hill or Bernie in the 2nd round.
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