Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com)

schwit1 writes: While it was hard to call a winner between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last night, it's easy to say who was luckier. The race between the Democrat presidential hopefuls was so tight in the Iowa caucus Monday that in at least six precincts, the decision on awarding a county delegate came down to a coin toss. And Clinton won all six, media reports said.

Comments

Did they spin when they landed?

[Etherwalk]

Amazingly, the coin tosses weren't done intelligently. They weren't called in the air, they weren't videotaped closely enough to show which side was up or that the coins were not double-headed, etc...

I'm not saying it's a conspiracy--just that it was a really stupid way to decide an election. Obviously the state should count all of the coin-toss delegates and split them between the tied candidates. They can't do that retroactively for this election but should change the rules for the next one.

Re:Did they spin when they landed?

[Orgasmatron]

As long as both candidates had a representative present, and neither objected, the tosses were fair enough, particularly for government work.

Re:Can a Hillary supporter step up and explain?

[entropy01]

Not a Clinton supporter but my 2 cents: Her supporters like progressivism and are willing to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans. They aren't principled. At least not in a moral sense.
The most common answer that I hear: "It's time for a woman to be president."
I didn't know that genitals were a qualification for any job other than porn.

That's Odd

[quantaman]

I wonder where this video of Sanders winning a coin toss came from then.

Re:Butterfly Ballot not Supreme Court decided 2000

[Obfuscant]

if Gore had demanded a statewide recount then he would likely have won (there would have been less of a reason for the courts to step in)

Demanding a state-wide recount would not have changed the fact that Gore was trying to override the process already in place and agreed to, determined by the people who had the authority to determine the process, and would have pushed the second Florida vote certification past the date of the Electoral College. That would have disenfranchised every Florida voter.

The fact remains, SCOTUS did not "pick a winner", they told the loser that he had already had his recount and they could not overturn the constitutionally recognized authority of the Florida legislature to determine the process for selecting electors for the Electoral College in the state of Florida.