2008 turnout in california:
clinton - 2.6 million
obama - 2.2 million
there's some reasonable rounding, there. but it's 4.8 million voters - a little less, but more than 4.7 million.
with 94% reporting, these are the numbers in 2016:
clinton - 1.8 million
sanders - 1.4 million
that's 3.2 million.
she got less votes this year than she did in 2008; total turnout is probably going to be down by over a million votes.
what of the media reports of voter registration amongst young latinos? i don't know. i've seen reports of deregistration, both recently and a while back.
but, whether this is a weak measure of enthusiasm all around - she also got less votes in new jersey - or yet another reflection of voter suppression, it's not a strong walk into the convention.
there's been a substory the whole time about sanders bringing kids into the democratic party, and this idea that it's going to be good for clinton. but, they're nowhere close to each other on policy. one way or another, the lack of voter enthusiasm we just saw in california (which is used to not mattering - that's not unique to this cycle) should be a dose of reality.
bernie is not going to deliver for hillary.
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and, google throws greg palast at me right off the bat. first result.
http://www.gregpalast.com/california-stolen-sanders-right-nowspecial-bulletin-greg-palast/
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i've got a great idea for how clinton can celebrate her gender identty.
why doesn't she go around to elementary schools around the country and get all the little girls to write their names on the bombs she plans to drop all over the world?
maybe, if we're lucky, she can be the first woman executed for war crimes, too.
actually, that glass ceiling has already been broken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese
but, it's true.
it's great to have a strong, female war criminal in office for little girls to look up to. maybe they can be war criminals when they grow up, too.
of course, more sane people may suggest that hillary clinton is actually a terrible role model for girls and that she's hindering her cause more than she's helping it.
but, this is america. nobody cares about sanity in america!
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alright, alright.
it was turnout. abysmal. who knows why.
let's take a moment to vent, resolve to vote for jill stein and move on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGdoqsuiN8