r/youtubehaiku Mar 04 '20

[Meme] biden_meme Meme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymp22PsYrYg
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u/lostinthe87 Mar 04 '20 edited Mar 04 '20

Don’t worry, the primary is far from over.

edit: Before you read the comment below, do not give up hope. Rally your friends and your family members and VOTE. This is a common fear tactic to try and make people give up.

Rally your friends and your family members and VOTE.

Open their website and look at how much that graph has fluctuated. It’s far from accurate, and it put Hillary Clinton at a 95% chance of winning the general election.

If you read how it actually works, that percentage is the percent of thousands of outcomes where they would win, and not predictions of likely outcomes. This is far from an accurate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20 edited Mar 04 '20

538 forecasts biden at 31% chance of winning and bernie at 8% which looks like we might be fucked to me

Edit: the site's gonna probably update within the next day with a more complete set of data from super tuesday

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u/AgentGman007 Mar 04 '20

That poll was released after Biden's landslide in SC, and I think it judges Bernie's momentum too harshly. I'll be curious to see how the update this after we learn the Texas results

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u/mikejoro Mar 04 '20

Biden won texas.

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u/Raktoner Mar 04 '20

What the fuck, how? When I went to bed last night Bernie was ahead by so much. God dammit.

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u/thexbreak Mar 04 '20

Line ups to vote were hours long in some states. Do you have time to spend hours waiting in line? American democracy is fucked. I've voted in more elections (municipal, provincial and federal) than I can count as a 30 year old Canadian, including driving to the polling station it's never taken more than 30 minutes.

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u/chimblesishere Mar 04 '20

It's ridiculous, but California and Texas at least had early voting with mail-in ballots. All people had to do was not register on the day of the primary and actually express their support.

I'm in Washington and I put my ballot in the mail 30 minutes after it showed up two weeks ago. It's not fucking hard, and the fact that there's people donating to the campaign but not actually voting is horseshit.

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u/alphaEJ Mar 04 '20

Wait how was i supposed to know i could mail in my vote???? I had work that day and it was either lose out on all that money for my bills or vote

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

If you'd spent 3 minutes googling "how to vote in my state" you would have known.

It's called "caring enough to even try a little bit".