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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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1 posted on 02/02/2016 11:15:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing to see here. Move along.


2 posted on 02/02/2016 11:15:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

a blast from the past, the Clinton Machine . . . (barf)


3 posted on 02/02/2016 11:16:53 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just the Dem machine robbing their voters of their votes, much like the GOP tries to do.

Coin toss, seriously this is 2016 not 1816


4 posted on 02/02/2016 11:17:18 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: txnativegop

Will the liberals actually wake up to Clinton though, nah thought not.


5 posted on 02/02/2016 11:17:44 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


6 posted on 02/02/2016 11:17:48 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: BenLurkin

Same people tossing who “elected” Kenyan.


7 posted on 02/02/2016 11:18:29 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: SeekAndFind

and then stole the coin.


8 posted on 02/02/2016 11:19:43 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: manc

I have always thought that liberalism is a type of delusional disorder. JMO.

which explains all the Dims voters.


9 posted on 02/02/2016 11:20:21 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course she’s going to win the coin tosses when both sides depict a braying ass


10 posted on 02/02/2016 11:20:57 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary: “okay... Heads, I win. Tails......... You remember Vince Foster, don’t you??”


11 posted on 02/02/2016 11:21:07 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: SeekAndFind

What are the odds of her winning the first five and Bernie winning the sixth?

Hint: they are exactly the same, but had it gone down that way would it be “miraculous”?


12 posted on 02/02/2016 11:22:01 AM PST by Darth Reardon (During the Great Depression, World War I was referred to as the Great War)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t go to casinos, but the Clinton casino is the last one I would ever go to.


13 posted on 02/02/2016 11:22:16 AM PST by henkster (Hillary Clinton's supporters are beginning to realize they are fettered to a corpse.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

She is too nasty even for Satan . . .


14 posted on 02/02/2016 11:22:17 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: SeekAndFind

After doing so well in the commodities market, winning coin flips ain’t nothing for hitlery.


15 posted on 02/02/2016 11:23:33 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: txnativegop

When I hear them talk I think there has to be something wrong with them and then they never wake up that their establishment is going out to take some of their votes away.


16 posted on 02/02/2016 11:23:58 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SeekAndFind

1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering. Do the 1000 coin toss test, guarantee you’ll get a couple of runs of 6 and more. You’ll also be bored to the border of suicide, and you’re thumb will hurt a lot. But you’ll learn a lot about how random chance actually works.


17 posted on 02/02/2016 11:24:18 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

I wonder if team clinton is shocked it was so close?


18 posted on 02/02/2016 11:24:57 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: manc

They don’t care so long as they have every need taken care of.


19 posted on 02/02/2016 11:25:02 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: discostu

Let’s say you START your test run and the FIRST six are all heads AND the coin flipper is **Hillary**:

Doesn’t that last part make it all a LITTLE more suspicious..?


20 posted on 02/02/2016 11:26:08 AM PST by gaijin
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