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Hillary won six back-to-back coin tosses against Sanders despite miraculous 1-in-64 odds
New York Daily News ^ | 02/02/2016 | Nicole Hensley

Posted on 02/02/2016 11:15:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won six back-to-back coin tosses against opponent Bernie Sander's camp at a half-dozen Iowa precincts where voting results were too close to call Tuesday morning — a mathematical feat that raised eyebrows and a few questions.

The 1-in-64 odds of Clinton successfully winning six coin flips across Polk, Jasper, Cedar and Johnson counties during a deadlocked Iowa caucus prompted confusion and concern from political experts and social media users.

"It is curious," said Dr. David Bridsell, Dean of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. "You don't want the awarding of delegates to come down to heads or tails."

"It's nice to know that America is a developed nation and we decid our next President with a coin toss," Tweeted Nick Zaxowski, echoing the sentiments of many others on social media.

In Des Moines, a coin landed tails up at the Weeks Middle School gymnasium following a split.

"That's how it works," one voter sporting Sanders stickers said, referring to the rules set forth by the Iowa Democratic Party, which allows a coin toss in the case of a tie. "It was very, very close. Remember this is a caucus."

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillarycointoss; iowa; iowacaucus; sanders
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s always been “lucky” at gambling. Remember her “cattle futures”.


21 posted on 02/02/2016 11:26:25 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: txnativegop

Watched Watters world and saw a guy state” I don’t see why I have to pay for higher education”

It’s all about them and what the country can do for them. How JFK’s party has changed.


22 posted on 02/02/2016 11:27:01 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Satan did it . . . She’s his beeeooottttcccchhhh!

...

I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t the other way around.


23 posted on 02/02/2016 11:27:36 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What I don’t understand is, if Clinton wins the coin toss, and then there’s another one, they don’t just give it to Sanders to even things out. Then a coin toss if there’s a third one, then the fourth one, give it to the other guy. And so on. Why does one get 6 and the other 0 when it should be 3-3?


24 posted on 02/02/2016 11:27:51 AM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the same “luck” that made her rich in cattle futures.


25 posted on 02/02/2016 11:28:18 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Each coin toss is 50/50 but, well, cool headline.


26 posted on 02/02/2016 11:29:10 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: txnativegop

She has “crazy eyes”. She looked awful in her vict0ry tirade this AM — cold, hard, mean. Beware anybody who crosses her.


27 posted on 02/02/2016 11:29:18 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Yeah, in the cattle futures market, she made profitable trades like 30 times in a row, so this is nothing.

That one, by the way, was actually a bribe. The trader picks a few winners out of all his trades, gives them to Hillary and says she made them.

28 posted on 02/02/2016 11:29:43 AM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Heads I win, Tails you lose”.


29 posted on 02/02/2016 11:31:56 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

6 heads in a row.

2^6 = 64

Odds: 63 to 1

Now if it were the same number coming up 6 straight times on a single (6-sided) dice cube, the formula would be:

6^6, or 6 x6 x6 x6 x6 x6 = 46,656

Odds: 46,655 to 1


30 posted on 02/02/2016 11:34:33 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

...actually, it needn’t be 6 straight heads or 6 straight tails, but rather 6 straight wins with any combination of heads or tails. Same odds: 1 in 64, or 63 to 1

2^6 = 64


31 posted on 02/02/2016 11:37:51 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: SeekAndFind

We’ve been doing coin tosses all morning the best so far has been 4 in a row. Whoever gets six in a row by the end of the day
gets 20 bucks.


32 posted on 02/02/2016 11:38:37 AM PST by Slambat
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To: SeekAndFind

33 posted on 02/02/2016 11:38:46 AM PST by Bratch
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s not go too far off on this.

(1) the coin tosses were made in separate precincts...not in the ^implied^ “same room” with Hill and The Bern present.

(2) what were the individual selections and who got to choose?

Perspective, people!


34 posted on 02/02/2016 11:40:32 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: discostu
1 in 64 isn't a miracle, it's clustering.

I heartily agree, that is how you win at craps. Plus this was a situation where Clinton needed at least 4 delegates to beat Sanders so that 6/6 coin toss is what I call a statistical certainty.

35 posted on 02/02/2016 11:41:13 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: gaijin

No. I’ve done the thousand test. With coins and different types of dice. Clustering happens. And in this case the effort to reward ration is way out of whack, rigging a coin toss takes effort, and what did she gain? 1 delegate? Maybe? Probably not even that.


36 posted on 02/02/2016 11:41:52 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: discostu
1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering.

Oh it's a cluster you-know-what, alright.

37 posted on 02/02/2016 11:42:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Slambat
We've been doing coin tosses all morning the best so far has been 4 in a row.

2^4 = 2 x2 x2 x2 = 16

Odds: 1 in 16 (15 to 1)

38 posted on 02/02/2016 11:43:17 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe the Democrat/Socialist Party is just floating this as a way to count electoral votes ...


39 posted on 02/02/2016 11:43:31 AM PST by glennaro
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To: SeekAndFind

Next Power Ball will be won by Hillary ... a sure thing


40 posted on 02/02/2016 11:46:54 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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