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February 02, 2016 03:41 PM UTC

Math Is Hard, Tom Lucero Edition

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  • by: Colorado Pols

The post-Iowa speculation on the right side of the aisle in Colorado is taking its usual turn for the comedic–here’s the always colorful Adams County Republican John Sampson, sounding off darkly about coin tosses that decided a few precincts in the admittedly close Democratic contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders:

sampsoncointoss

That’s not exactly right, of course–coin tosses that decided a few individual precincts did not themselves amount to a decisive margin across the state of Iowa, and Hillary Clinton’s overall narrow victory was not decided “by a coin toss.” Still, good BS talk-radio fodder for the day after the caucuses.

But then 2016 Republican HD-51 candidate and longtime GOP wannabe politico Tom Lucero waded into the discussion! Ladies and gentlemen, it’s much, much worse than John Sampson thought:

lucero100percent

Now, we weren’t math majors in college, but something about this statement seemed, well, a little questionable to us. So we broke out our handy-dandy calculator.

49.86% + 49.57% + .57% =

We don’t want to give anything away here, but some of you have already worked this out in your heads. Or grabbed a calculator like we did (we are at least admitting to it). But so there are no spoilers, click “More” below to get the answer to the 4th grade arithmetic problem, 49.86% + 49.57% + .57% =.

100.00%.

And with that, hopefully this is one conspiracy theory we can put to bed.

There will be more. After all, there are a lot of people in America without calculators.

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7 thoughts on “Math Is Hard, Tom Lucero Edition

  1. Tom  probably learnt his advanced GOPer cipherin', by mail, from the STEM program at The Jethro Bodine-Sarah Palin Nowledge Academy and School of Hair Design???

    "John, I'm not the smartest guy in the world …"

  2. There's a lot of stupidity going around. For instance bits on the Daily Show  and Larry Wilmore's  Nightly Show confusing the caucus process with a state election and using the coin toss incidents to make fun of Iowa's crazy election laws, apparently not realizing that this is a party matter, not a state election. I will say math wasn't my best subject but even I could tell this added up to 100% and if I wasn't sure I certainly would have checked with a calculator before making a fool of myself.  

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