- Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:25 pm
#67968
Now that may not seem so odd except on thing. Microsoft "donated" the app that will be doing the counting tonight when the votes finally do come in. Welcome to Digital Banana Republic America. All the votes liberal money can buy. To paraphrase Josef Stalin: *The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.*
Microsoft’s Bing technology has called Iowa for Hillary Clinton, a result that has not gone unnoticed amongst Bernie Sanders supporters given that an app created by Microsoft will help tally the vote during tonight’s caucus.
Using, “data from polls, prediction markets, and anonymized and aggregated search-engine queries to predict its results,” Microsoft forecasts that Hillary will win three out of the first four Democratic primaries, taking Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada, with Sanders taking New Hampshire.
Microsoft has numerous ties to the Clintons, the most notable being Mark Penn, once described as Hillary’s “pollster, chief strategist and message guru all wrapped into one.”
Up until June last year, Penn was also Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Corporation. In 2014, Penn created an ad campaign that Time’s Laura Stampler speculated was a, “slick, subliminal and one-hundred percent free endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”
- By johnforbes
- By brandon