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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I mean, that's assuming the CIA doesn't assassinate Trump for even considering pulling out of NATO or something like that. Unless he can convince the military elite that realigning ourselves with Russia is a good idea, he's going to face resistance every step of the way from the alphabet agencies.
edited 24th Jul '16 7:24:17 AM by CaptainCapsase
Clinton still only narrowly lost against an extremely charismatic and popular candidate who would be the first black American president and voted against the war in Iraq (a very important issue after the Bush presidency), while Clinton's campaign was poorly managed. So this seems to be more evidence to me that it also affected that race. I never said that someone instantly wins if they have superdelegates, but that doesn't change the fact that they are an undemocratic system.
Sure but that was the Republican primary book, which involved apealing to the racist nut jobs with dog whistles but not being openly racist and bigoted.
Clinton didn't right to book that Bush, Rubio and Cruz used, because she doesn't engage in racist dog whistles and she doesn't care about the votes of the racist nutjob crowd.
She can call Trump a racist bigot pandering to racist bigots and not loose the election, which nobody in the Republican primary could do.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThere's damage control, and then there's this. If this is a sign that she's on the way out, it'll be interesting to see who they float as her replacement.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Dude they were specifically plotting ways to make Sanders lose. Whether or not they actually succeeded this is a pretty clear case of corruption. Fortunately it seems like they didn't actually carry this stuff out so Hillary's win is still legitimate but this can't just be swept under the rug. The people responsible need to resign from their positions.
edit: Okay fine, rig is the wrong word. The point stands that their behavior was entirely inappropriate.
edited 24th Jul '16 8:30:44 AM by Kostya
A party actually be impartial? Since when? lol no. The DNC and RNC have never been completely impartial in any election ever.
Also a research / advice memo really lists all avenues to attack available, and I do mean all, its up to the candidate to choose how deep they want to go. Its a testament to Hillary that she didn't go that route at all and genuinely debated the issues, I really can not say the same to certain republicans.
I'm actually a little surprised that the DNC would even pretend to be impartial. The whole point of a political party is to fulfill a political agenda, after all.
edited 24th Jul '16 9:06:25 AM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34Hmm.
Dnc chair sent an email to msnbc in that leaked cache of emails that pressured them to drop criticism of her.
Elements of the media kowtowing and in collusion with democrats? Say it ain't so.
Schultz needed to resign over stuff much more important than this. Her abandonment of the 50-state strategy while still promoting bizarre blue dog candidates (like Allison Lundergan-Grimes in Kentucky against Senator Mcconnell, the democratic woman who wouldn't say whether she voted for Obama in either election) is what's given the GOP their unprecedented level of control at lower levels (state and Congress) of government. She's been a disaster for the party with no upshot. The guy trying to primary her in Florida isn't much better (he's attacking her *from the right* on the Iran deal), but would at least mark an ignominious end to her career.
edited 24th Jul '16 9:10:05 AM by Ogodei
Article on the process that led to Kaine's selection
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This is true insofar as Sanders voters were young. However, the argument that the Democrats must pander to Sanders' platform in order to secure the loyalty of his voter base does not automatically follow—particularly once we get past this election cycle.
edited 24th Jul '16 9:44:57 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
This sounds reasonable but it isn't. The superdelegates were supposed to vote for whoever they want. What point is there in waiting until the process, it's not like a lot of people hadn't already decided who they already supported. Not including them in he delegate count only makes sense if there is actually a history of a significant number of them changing their mind and vote throughout the course of things. I presume that didn't happen, so the projections were accurate then? This post is just more "Sanders could of won if things had gone his way" nonsense, which we really should be done with at this point.
edited 24th Jul '16 10:00:54 AM by LSBK
We're seeing that this year, even. In the wake of having to pick between Trump and Hillary, there are some going, "Can't we just keep Obama?"
This is news to people?
As one of the people that was previously supporting Snowden's crimes being labelled treasonous, I'm going to take a moment and do my vindication dance. They aren't heroes, they aren't freedom fighters, and they never have been. They just want to see America burn.
It saddens me that we need ties to a foreign dictator for people to recognize that those who work diligently to destroy us and everything we stand for are our enemies.
RNC impartiality led to Donald Trump.
Had the party sabotaged him and used dirty tricks to prohibit him from getting the nomination, it would have gone to Ted Cruz.
Frankly, it's not much of a difference either way.
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