Clueless in Las Vegas

How Hillary may have punted Nevada (and maybe the entire election) to Trump by being too tricky

As I write on two days before the election, Nevada is essentially tied in the polls. If the Nevada goes to Trump, and if Hillary loses by a few electoral points, this story could determine who is president.

Hillary and her people blew it in Nevada by being completely clueless about 1) how quickly political identity is changing in 2016; 2) being too clever and not at all wise; and 3) playing dirty.

Nevada was one of the early states in the Democratic primary, the third state, February 23, after New Hampshire. After a contentious and possibly rigged Iowa primary (see DNC leak and here), Bernie had a big win in New Hampshire. Nevada was next.

Note: since no independent, transparent investigation of election fraud has occurred and since the clear evidence of undemocratic practices at the DNC have not been remedied, since legitimate questions about e-voting remain, trusting election results in the US is not rational or supported by any evidence. It is impossible to prove outright fraud when the investigating agencies are partisan or do not work, so it also impossible to dispel the impression of widespread fraud.

Eleven days before the Nevada caucus, John Podesta sent this email. Here Hillary’s campaign gets the “rules engineered” to remove “two remaining roadblocks. These precincts combine to be 1% of delegates, so it’s an important piece of work!”

That email alone screams for an investigation. But nope.

Given the silly caucus process in Nevada, the delegates of the original vote then meet and vote for new delegates, who then vote for the final delegates. It was in the third step that the process got “raucous.” The DNC Leaks include emails that show that the DNC itself spread a false story about Bernie delegates throwing chairs. Meanwhile, California Senator did give the F U finger to Bernie’s supporters.

After cheating during the caucus, the DNC/Hillary team then defamed Bernie’s supporters as violent when they were not. Lastly, Hillary engaged in dirty tricks to keep Jill Stein off the ballot.

I subscribe to various Bernie groups on Facebook. People from Nevada who were inclined to vote for Jill Stein wrote to ask what to do. The overwhelming number of responses said that these people should vote for Trump.

Here we are talking about a small number of people, probably less than 2% of the total, who were aware of all these corrupt steps in Nevada, and wanted to vote for Stein. If she had a commanding lead, a few thousand lefties wouldn’t matter. In any event, by pissing off Bernie supporters then keeping Stein off the ballot she gave Trump at least a few thousand perhaps critical votes he would not have otherwise received.