This morning CBS News reported on the results of the vote in Dixville Notch, NH in the Democrat primary. According to CBS, Bloomberg got three write in votes, Bernie Sanders got one vote and Pete Buttigieg got one vote. Okay, that's not very important. But then I looked at the NY Post report on the voting in Dixville Notch. The Post reported 25 votes in the Democrat primary, not 5 like CBS. That's also okay because the Post reported the results for the three towns in northern NH that vote at midnight; Dixville Notch is just one of the three. The Post reported that Amy Klobuchar got 8 votes in the three towns. Bloomberg got two write in votes in those towns. Huh? Bloomberg couldn't get three votes in Dixville Notch but only two in three towns including Dixville Notch unless the Iowa Democrats were doing the count. Something is obviously wrong.
Normally, I would just attribute all this to sloppy reporting. After Iowa and all the Fake News of the last three years, I'm not so sure. Could CBS have decided to try to help Bloomberg by inflating his total and just reporting part of the results so as to give Bloomberg a symbolic win? It truly wouldn't surprise me.
Normally, I would just attribute all this to sloppy reporting. After Iowa and all the Fake News of the last three years, I'm not so sure. Could CBS have decided to try to help Bloomberg by inflating his total and just reporting part of the results so as to give Bloomberg a symbolic win? It truly wouldn't surprise me.
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