It's the cartilage, apparently.
Yesterday, Bill had a testy exchange (video) with a television reporter from local San Francisco ABC affiliate, KGO, where Bill said, repeatedly, that the set-up of the at-large precincts in Las Vegas would lead each at-large precinct caucus goer's vote to count for five times the worth of other caucus goers' votes.
Bill made the claim about ten times in the video.
Well, whaddya' know. The reporter didn't take Bill at his word and decided to do some actual reporting! (Isn't that refreshing?)
Turns out, Bill was stretching the truth! Imagine that!
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He told me the casino caucus goers would have a five to one advantage over Nevadans who were voting in other communities.
Technically that is possible but highly unlikely. The state democratic party decided that delegates to the state convention would be apportioned out according to a number of factors. For example rural areas of Nevada will have more weight than cities. The state party does that on purposes so that candidates will be encouraged to ignore sparsely populated areas of the state.
Most precincts are set up according to population size. But with the casino "at large" precincts...it was decided they would be weighted according to turn out. So for example if a lot of people turn out at the casino sites...each vote will be worth a little less than other precincts with a smaller population.
The only way the casino caucus goers could have five times the voting power would be if very few people go to the casino sites and a lot of people turn out in the less populated areas. Now if very few show up at the casinos they won’t get as many delegates..and if a lot of them show up they won’t have the extra "more powerful" vote that Clinton is talking about....
In any event the casino caucuses won’t account for more than six percent of the total number of delegates.
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And the state party approved those rules as did the national democratic party.
It wasn’t until after Barack Obama got the endorsement of the culinary workers union that anyone objected to the casino locations.
Bill's nose is growing.
Is this part of the Bill/Hill good cop/bad cop routine?