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:
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1/64 is small compared to her cattle futures odds.
You mean it was rigged.....
I think they are picking on Hitlery, after all a few years back she won big on cattle futures, so what’s the big deal? I mean, it’s her turn anyway!
The Clinton Lorenz machine added another rotor!
lol beat me to it.
Should you preface your post with a barf alert?
1 in 64 is improbable, but not impossible. Turning $1000 into $100,000 in the cattle futures market is as likely as OJ’s blood belonging to another person whose 1 in a billion DNA is an exact match.
Maybe Hillary had hired that NFL ref who can flip a coin without having it turn over.
Why didn’t they tally the votes instead of a coin toss? Did Sanders supporters get bamboozled into going along with it? If it’s rigged is it voter fraud, or just part of Iowa caucus charm?
We need a new Ted Wells investigation!
I wonder whether Bernie will suddenly develop an interest in Hillary’s “damn emails.”
When Hillary wins the coin toss, she says, “ I will defend the left goal.”
I notice the raw vote totals are being reported for the republicans but not the democrats. Hmm? I noticed the the republican vote totals exceeded prior levels of turnout but we don't know much about the democrat levels of enthusiasm. Hmm!?
Not unusual when the Beast’s “luck” can turn 1K into 100K!
The Queen of Mean-a strikes again!
From the article:
And the bottom line is, Clinton won the Iowa caucuses on a coin flip.
Uncle Bernie doesn't run a quid pro quo foundation which launders money for the right crowd.
Just sayin’....the best way to make things real difficult for hillary would be to catch her in voting fraud. Or will Sanders throw up his hands and say “nobody cares about the damn vote-counting”
Anybody check the coins to see if each side was different?
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