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The Bern Report reports
Dr. Rick Hardy and Dr. John Hemingway have been leading Mock Presidential Elections [at Western Illinois University] since 1975. During that time, students who have participated in these mock elections have chosen the winning party with 100% accuracy and have an astonishing record in selecting presidential winners.
On the Democratic side for the Primaries Sanders won[1] by close to a 2 to 1 margin over challenger Hillary Clinton.
[...] After nominating Sanders, the student Democrats put him up against Jeb Bush, who received the Republican nomination, with Bernie winning the electoral college by nearly a 4 to 1 margin and a decisive win for the popular vote.
This simulation always takes place the year before the presidential election year, and three months before the actual Iowa caucuses. The genesis of this mock presidential election began at the University of Iowa in 1975 with two political science doctoral students, John Hemingway and Rick Hardy. In that year, students selected Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford--long before anyone really knew of Jimmy Carter.
In the years that followed, Rick Hardy expanded the format and engaged thousands of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia where students registered a perfect record of selecting the subsequent winning presidential party. In 2007 and 2011, Hardy and Hemingway teamed up again to conduct a massive campus-wide simulation at Western Illinois University. In 2007, Western students selected Barack Obama as president at a time when no one thought he could win! And, in 2011, students narrowly re-elected President Obama.
[1] Content is behind scripts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @07:20PM
And just what is Trump going to do to fight the biggest threats this country faces? The NSA's mass surveillance, the TSA, unfettered border searches, asset forfeiture, lack of police accountability, the drug war, warrantless wiretapping of all sorts, and other things of that nature. That's right: The biggest threats our country faces are not petty things like people coming into the country illegally or a bad economy, but the government violating the highest law of the land and our basic liberties. Apparently he is opposed to the lowest hanging fruit of all that cowards like to rally around: Recreational marijuana. There's no chance in hell he'll support ending the drug war for all the other drugs.
At the very least, he's opposed to the TPP, but we'll see.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:24PM
And you want it to continue? You think Cliton is going to grow balls and fix things?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:37PM
Want what to continue? And I'm not voting for Clinton, Trump, or anyone the Democrat or Republican parties put forth, so I have no idea what the significance of your second question was supposed to be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @09:29PM
The political double talk (aka lies) to get into office and be lackadaisical once they get there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @09:46AM
I think Trump will do both, all while not changing anything of significance. Same with Hillary and friends and the rest of the Republican losers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @06:10AM
Who the fuck wants Clinton? Absolutely nobody, that's who.
(Score: 1) by UpnAtom on Monday November 16 2015, @02:03AM
I once read on /. that the person with the best hair always wins the Presidential election. I checked it out and its true (allowing for some 2nd term greying).
So basically the only way Sanders can win is vs Trump.