The Sanders campaign tried to rig caucus tiebreakers with double-sided coins
The Democratic primary wasn't rigged — despite the best efforts of Bernie Sanders's staffers in Nevada. On Monday, CBS News published a postmortem on the Vermont senator's campaign, which includes this anecdote about how Sanders's Silver State director Joan Kato prepared her team for caucus day:
At one point shortly before the caucuses, she instructed staff to buy double-sided coins — in case coin-flips were needed to decide any of the caucuses in the event of a tie, according to staffers.
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The report does not specify whether staffers followed this instruction. But according to Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, it wouldn't have made any difference, either way.
Related: See Sanders' supporters:
Funniest part, as more than one person has reminded me, is ties were not decided by coin flip but by cutting cards! https://t.co/6wDgK8nsdB
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 27, 2016
Anyhow, now that "Sanders actually won the primary" truthers have evidence that their own campaign had a Machiavellian streak — and that exit polls oversample youth voters — maybe we can all get back to complaining about things that are genuinely rigged, like our criminal justice system or this Ford F150.
