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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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:09AM
I would vote for Trump. Not because I like him. It would be amusing to watch him try to maneuver the gov and then watch it sabotage all of his efforts to do anything. Him having a meltdown would be funny to watch.
Sanders would try to do whatever it is he stands for then run into the exact same problem Trump would have. The gov does not bend to the will of the dude in charge for 4 years. The fix is in. The cash cow keeps pumping cash.
At this point how I vote does not matter. So I vote who would amuse me the most. Sanders is my 2nd choice as he would be amusing to watch. Hillary I am bored of.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:11AM
I don't know about that. I think Hillary would be fun to watch. Granny goes to Washington and kicks ass.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:57PM
Yeah that's funny until the moment you realize the ass she's kicking is yours, not theirs.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:01PM
You know, I think I'm with you on this one. I would vote for Trump over Hillary, and I'm a progressive. Trump would 'splode the United States government with fireworks. Hillary will see us all in literal chains to her Wall Street pals.
Washington DC delenda est.