{"id":10348,"date":"2016-06-09T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:05:19","slug":"nader-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=10348","title":{"rendered":"Nader Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders rose in the polls because he&#8217;s a creation of the media &#8211; same as Donald Trump.<\/p><p>Ralph Nader claims\u00a0Bernie won in the open primary states. \u00a0That is a lot of hooey: Mississippi, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, and South Carolina, which have open primaries, went with Clinton (13) and seven went with Sanders.<\/p><p>Bernie did the best in caucus states, which is about as non-democratic as you can get.<\/p><p>Besides, Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/democratic_vote_count.html\">thumped him<\/a> in the popular vote by almost 3.8 million.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"States_with_an_open_presidential_primary\" class=\"mw-headline\">States with an open presidential primary<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Alabama\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama\">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Arkansas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arkansas\">Arkansas<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Georgia (U.S. state)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\">Georgia<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois\">Illinois<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Indiana\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indiana\">Indiana<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a> (All races&#8217; primaries open for &#8220;unenrolled&#8221;\/unaffiliated voters only) (Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Michigan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michigan\">Michigan<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mississippi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Missouri\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missouri\">Missouri<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"New Hampshire\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Hampshire\">New Hampshire<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"North Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\">North Carolina<\/a> (All races&#8217; primaries open for unaffiliated voters only)<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States#cite_note-11\">[11]<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"North Dakota\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Dakota\">North Dakota<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ohio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohio\">Ohio<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Oklahoma\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a> (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2015) <sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States#cite_note-12\">[12]<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"South Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\">South Carolina<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tennessee\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Texas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\">Texas<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Vermont\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vermont\">Vermont<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Virginia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\">Virginia<\/a>\u00a0(Clinton)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Wisconsin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-13\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States#cite_note-13\">[13]<\/a>\u00a0(Sanders)<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders rose in the polls because he&#8217;s a creation of the media &#8211; same as Donald Trump.Ralph Nader claims\u00a0Bernie won in the open primary states. \u00a0That is a lot of hooey: Mississippi, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=10348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}