Hillary "Flips" Off Bernie; Won Six Straight Coin Tosses In Bizarre Caucus Tiebreaker
Zero Hedge
Feb 2, 2016
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Hillary Clinton emerged victorious in Iowa on Monday night, but it was a close call.

So close, in fact, that Bernie Sanders wants a recount.

It was “a virtual tie,” Sanders said, describing the proceedings which ended with the Vermont senator being awarded 695.49 state delegate equivalents to Clinton’s 699.57. “After thorough reporting — and analysis — of results, there is no uncertainty and Secretary Clinton has clearly won the most national and state delegates,” Clinton's Iowa campaign manager Matt Paul said in a statement.

Sanders wants the Democratic party to release the a raw vote count, a rare move, but one he believes is necessary for full transparency.

“I honestly don’t know what happened. I know there are some precincts that have still not reported. I can only hope and expect that the count will be honest,” he said. “I have no idea. Did we win the popular vote? I don’t know, but as much information as possible should be made available.”

“People said we had an inferior ground game, that we didn’t have as good an understanding of the state,” Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver told reporters. “I think we certainly demonstrated that we had at least as good a ground game and I would argue that we had a better one because we started out [as underdogs].”

Maybe so, but Sanders' coin flip game was certainly inferior to Clinton's and it may have cost him a delegate or two. Or three. Or five.