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by advantark2 3532 days ago
The implication behind this article is that any sort of unrest would be completely Donald Trump's fault. But what people seem to forget is that Donald Trump has a reason for waiting to cede the presidency. Gore lost the election even though he got the popular vote. There were massive irregularities in the Democratic primaries, and the media has been biased and partisan, mostly in favor of Hillary Clinton, since the beginning.

I understand why some people are afraid of his hesitance. I hope they at least understand the reason he's doing so.
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smacktoward 3532 days ago
> There were massive irregularities in the Democratic primaries

[ Citation needed ]

I'm a politically aware Democrat, I supported Bernie Sanders (see https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/02/this-blog-is-voting-for-b...), and I saw no compelling evidence to believe that the primaries were "stolen" from him in any meaningful sense.

He had an uphill climb in that the establishment party organs were aligned with Hillary, but that's been true for every insurgent candidate in every election ever. In the end he did better than anyone who supported him (including the man himself, I suspect) would have expected when he launched his campaign.

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advantark2 3532 days ago
You're right to ask for citation. Put simply, there is no definitive proof that the primary was rigged per se, but there were consistent differences between the exit polling & the voting results. Almost all of the differences were in Secretary Clinton's favor, and these discrepancies were not found in the Republican primaries, nor were they found in the '08 primaries.

http://www.snopes.com/stanford-study-proves-election-fraud-t...

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gilleain 3532 days ago
In the 2000, Bush v Gore election the result was contested afterwards when there was some doubt over who carried Florida and it came down to some hundreds of votes.

Trump is claiming in advance that he will "have to see" whether he will accept the result or not. I think that's quite different.

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advantark2 3532 days ago
With the Bush v Gore election, nothing like it had happened before. Of course he wouldn't contest it beforehand. Now there has been a history of it happening. It definitely makes more sense to hesitate now.
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