Posted on 02/02/2016 5:38:46 AM PST by Krosan
DES MOINES, Iowa — One of the most bizarre details to emerge from Monday’s Iowa caucuses was that in six Democratic counties, the ownership of six delegates was decided by a coin flip.
A single delegate remained unassigned at the end of caucusing in two precincts in Des Moines, one precinct in Ames, one in Newton, one in West Branch and one in Davenport, The Des Moines Register reported.
In all six instances, the coin toss was won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
There may have been more coin tosses, but those are the ones we know about for now.
Now, get ready to do some math.
In a single coin toss, the probability of calling the toss correctly is 50 percent, or one in two. Heads or tails.
But the probably of winning every flip out of six flips is one in 64, or 1.56 percent.
The online study tool “Coin Toss Probability Calculator†has a really intense formula that explains why, but the bottom line is, the probabilities stack on each other.
You’re 50 percent likely to win one coin flip. But you’re only 25 percent likely to win two consecutive coin flips, because there are now twice as many possible outcomes. So bump that up to six coin flips, and your chances of winning them all are slim:
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
They don't care. They have been taught not to care. They have been taught to believe that this sort of thing is the norm. Taught by the Mother State. Cheating is how business is done.
Now, shut up and eat your peas. Nothing to see here.
Wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Bern won some of the coin tosses, but then Canky got him to agree to make it best of 3, and then best of 5.
Coin tosses? Coin tosses are part of the electoral process, seriously?
Yeh right? Freakin’ coin tosses in a voting venue? WTH-— vote counts only..demoRat corruptions Las Vegas style.
The coin—Heads Hellary wins, tails Bernie loses.
Oh. You know. It’s just another one of those “Vast Right
Wing Conspiracies” . .
I’m just wondering if it wasn’t pre-planned to steal close situations with a rigged coin toss. Am I allowed to spell that out instead of tiptoe around it?
Sanders should know how lucky he is!
Six rigged coin tosses are a lot better than 6 feet of grass in Fort Marcy Park.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/election-results/2016/caucuses/democratic/iowa/
Do those Globe results say that if the coin tosses went 50-50 Sanders would have won by 2 votes?
Magic act subterfuge-—substitute a coin by deft manipulation?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.