Saturday, February 20, 2016

What a shock: Hillary pulls an ace!


Pahrump precinct chair Peggy Rhoads with the cards drawn in tied Precinct 10. Hillary's ace beat Bernie's six.
2:20 PM - 20 Feb 2016

Ben Kamisar reports at The Hill,
As Hillary Clinton battles Bernie Sanders in Saturday's Nevada Democratic caucuses, she got help from an unlikely source: a lucky ace.

In Las Vegas fashion, ties among caucusgoers are settled by pulling from a deck of cards. The higher number wins, and card ties are broken by suit.

In Precinct 10, Clinton drew an ace while Sanders drew a six, according to a tweet from a Wall Street Journal reporter. That, the paper reported, gave Clinton three delegates to Sanders's two from that precinct.
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