Bob Fitrakis: Hillary Stole the Nomination from Bernie

Some of you may recall Fitrakis for his 2004 claim that Bush stole Ohio, which got quite a bit of traction on the left. Fitrakis is a political science professor at an Ohio community college, which at least gives him some veneer of credibility on the issue of politics in that state.

But check out his rambling argument in support of a CT that Hillary stole New York from Bernie Sanders:

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FITRAKIS: Well one of the obvious things in this election was the visible hijacking of Bernie Sanders voters. Bernie brought in what political scientists would call an asymmetrical entrance of new voters. He went out and got a lot of people that hadn't voted previously and at first emerged in New York City, in Brooklyn where you had 126 thousand people. Overwhelmingly new voters supporting Bernie that were purged at the last second from the voting rolls. And that's being investigated but it turned out to be a clerk said to have Republican leanings. But just prior to the purge, the daughter of a Clinton super delegate had bought property from her. A million and a half dollars over the street value that wasn't even being listed. So at least it calls into question, whether it was an old fashioned Tammany Hall bribe for purging voters.

CNN explains what really happened:

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Speaking to CNN on Tuesday night, Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan pushed back against the growing criticism, saying, "We're not finding that there were issues throughout the city that are any different than what we experience in other elections." Of the 126,000 Democratic voters taken off from the rolls in Brooklyn, Ryan said 12,000 had moved out of borough, while 44,000 more had been placed in an inactive file after mailings to their homes bounced back. An additional 70,000 were already inactive and, having failed to vote in two successive federal elections or respond to cancel notices, were removed.

Now remember, Fitrakis was claiming that Bernie was bringing in new voters, a lot of people who hadn't voted before. But the 126,000 who were purged from the rolls (by definition) had voted before (or at least made their initial voter registration). Hence Bernie's new voters couldn't be any of the 126,000.

Hillary beat Bernie pretty convincingly in New York, and I'd be willing to bet a lot that she crushed him in Brooklyn (which is, after all where her campaign headquarters was located). Brooklyn is about 32% Black, and Hillary shellacked Bernie among African Americans.

And the bit about the clerk who received $1.5 million over the market value of her property? Sounds like a Pulitzer-Prize winning story to me; it's amazing Woodward and Bernstein never pick up on Fitrakis' clues.

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