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by 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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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...