It appears Hillary Clinton has escaped Iowa with the narrowest of victories and a brutal wound to her credibility.
Particularly how she “won” some of the awarded delegates was dubious at best.
Up to six of the state’s Democrat caucuses were, in part, determined by a coin toss, according to the Des Moines Register.
This is how the #IowaCaucus works. A tie is solved tossing a coin @HillaryClinton wins pic.twitter.com/yZDTUKFJXQ
— Fernando Peinado (@FernandoPeinado) February 2, 2016
In one precinct in Ames, 484 attendees were initially recorded but when the preference groups for each candidate were counted, the number of supporters came to 240 for Clinton, 179 for Bernie Sanders and five for Martin O’Malley, who suspended his campaign last night. It produced a total of 424 leaving 60 attendees who apparently vanished into thin air, according to an account given to the Register by Iowa State associate professor David Schweingruber who attended.
This left Clinton with four delegates, Sanders with three, and one unassigned.
After a challenge by Sanders’ supporters, the precinct leaders phoned the Democrat Party hotline to ask them how to handle the situation.
Party officials suggested they determine the winner of the extra delegate with a coin toss.
Clinton subsequently won the toss.
According to the Register, there were five other precincts where delegates were determined in the same way and in all five cases, Clinton won the coins toss.
According to the online Coin Toss Probability Calculator, the chances of the same result for 6 coin flips is 1 in 64 or 0.015625 percent and yet somehow the once presumed front-runner pulled it off.
Without the benefit of the coin flips, Clinton could not have won the state.
If, as the law of probability suggests, Sanders won three of the six coin flips, Sanders would have finished with more delegates than Clinton.
Victory doesn’t get much more pathetic than that.
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Social media thought the entire thing was ridiculous.
Unbelievable coin toss decides a dead heat in west Davenport! @HillaryClinton wins! @chucktodd @CNBC @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/CtsvYJllBf
— Andrew Tadlock (@andytadlock) February 2, 2016
@andytadlock @gkielec @HillaryClinton @chucktodd @CNBC @NBCNews WTF kind of electoral system is that?
— photoseeny (@photoseeny) February 2, 2016
@FernandoPeinado @Alex_Ogle @HillaryClinton Democracy by coin toss
— Andy Mai (@MaiAndy) February 2, 2016
This is how the #IowaCaucus works. A tie is solved tossing a coin @HillaryClinton wins pic.twitter.com/yZDTUKFJXQ
— Fernando Peinado (@FernandoPeinado) February 2, 2016
@FernandoPeinado @jaywolf83 That seems just swell for democracy.
— Lucy Idaya (@LucyIdaya) February 2, 2016
@FernandoPeinado @HillaryClinton why don’t they ask the crazy 8 ball?
— VIXTER (@fergievixen9021) February 2, 2016
Proof of a coin toss at Des Moines East High School. Landed heads and Hillary won the extra delegate. #IowaCaucus pic.twitter.com/Asrt4s8qJ7
— Sage Rosenfels (@SageRosenfels18) February 2, 2016
@andytadlock @HillaryClinton @chucktodd @CNBC @NBCNews This is supposed to inspire confidence in democracy?
— KempWrites (@KempWrites) February 2, 2016
@tripgabriel Same situation, same result in West Branch.
— Julia LaBua (@JLaBua) February 2, 2016
@tripgabriel @kujo71 The price of freedom is a COIN-TOSS ?
— jim (@jnorthr) February 2, 2016
@FernandoPeinado @CassandraRules @HillaryClinton oh brother that is worse than paper chads.
— Teddy Luv (@stellablu122) February 2, 2016
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