The Hemingway Report

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Anyone surprised?

Jill Stein's recount effort gets 12 times more coverage from ABC, CBS, NBC than her entire campaign

When Jill Stein was the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. president, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) only gave her 36 seconds of coverage. However, as soon as she launched a campaign to contest the presidential election and demand a recount of ballots in several key states, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC managed to find 7 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage for her in just four days.

On November 26’s NBC "Nightly News," anchor Lester Holt began a story on the recount by implying that the election may not be over yet, “if you thought the presidential election was behind us, word came today from the Hillary Clinton campaign that it will back the statewide election recount effort put on by third party candidate Jill Stein in three key battleground states.”

Holt then turned the story over to correspondent Kristen Welker, who led by saying that the recount was prompted when “a group of computer scientists, including a voting rights lawyer, said they found voting irregularities in three states.”

Despite this drastic uptick in coverage, Stein admitted that her team was working without proof. “Let me be very clear,” Stein told CBS Evening News’s Anna Werner during a November 24 interview, “we do not have evidence of fraud. We do not have smoking guns. What we do have is an election that was surrounded by hacking.”

They also have $7 million they desperately want to flush down the toilet.

The states involved are PA, MI, and WI. It's extremely doubtful any state is going to flip. Certainly, it won't be all three. For the sake of argument say PA stays the same. Trump could lose Michigan (16) electoral votes and Wisconsin (10) and still have enough to beat Killary.

Trump now 306

Killary 232

Take 26 from Trump 280

Give Killary 26 258

She's still a loser.

To put things in perspective.

2012 electoral votes

Barry 332
Romney 206

A blowout right? Same as 2016.
Remember anyone in the Romney camp calling for a recount?

An ironic twist Stein actually rigged the election for Trump. She received 31,000 votes in Wisconsin, more than the margin separating Clinton and Trump. In her bid to knowingly run a hopeless campaign, she stole the vote which would have gone to Killary.

BTW...the recount is only being done in the 3 states Trump narrowly won. The states Killary won by a narrow margin are not subjected to a recount.

Ya know..."It's for the good of the country."

Monday, November 28, 2016

The Trump Effect

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Clinton prior to the election : Trump's Election Talk 'Threatens' our Democracy

WOW...some things come back to bite you on the ass, don't they?

Remember this?

Oct 21, 2016

CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump on Friday of "threatening our democracy" by refusing to say that he will accept next month's election results, adding that "the peaceful transition of power is one of the things that sets us apart."

So Trump was the one scorned for suggesting he would demand a recount thereby "threatening our democracy" if the race was close.

Now that the tables are turned the new liberal motto is:

We are in a crisis.

We Democrats ought to be able to stand up and oppose the election results—not in the name of party, but for the good of country.

They're enough to make me puke.

And guess what... the race isn't even close. Now that Michigan has reported Trump is at 306, Killary at 232. Besides this most states adopted a "safety valve" meaning if the election is extremely close in a particular state an automatic recount takes place. To my knowledge no state has activated a recount.

And then there's this.