Posted on 12/10/2017 6:02:17 AM PST by davikkm
“It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. I still believe Hillary thinks she’s going to run again, and she needs the super delegate structure to stay in place.”
Without the super-delegates, the nomination would have gone to second and third ballots. Neither would have gotten the 2300 votes to put them over the top.
How DARE the little people try to democratize the demoncrap party!
The DNC right now is a vehicle for the rich, powerful, and corrupt to amass ever more power.
The DNC *could* try actually representing the people, and running on ideas rather than character assassination and fear-mongering. But that’s never going to happen.
In a nutshell, the role of government is to protect the people from threats foreign and domestic. When is the last time the Democrat party supported that? (Heck, even the Republican party seems to have almost forgotten that mandate of government.)
There is a large fallacy in your analysis.
You speak of judgement and the system. The system is the direct creation of judgements.
When flying in clouds pilots must rely on their instruments.
When the campaign enters the fog of war, a prudent way to proceed is to rely on the system developed by sound judgements. Hillary relied on the sound judgements that developed the super delegate policy to coast through the primaries.
All the various judgements establishing DNC strategy, like generals fighting the previous war, assumed a GOPe candidate. All those judgements and thus the system did not prepare for Trump.
Thus, although she won the popular vote, her instruments, the system, failed her in the critical states and she crashed and burned.
if they were smart they would make the number of delegates match up with the number of electoral votes for each state and stop empowering California and New York and in the process possibly end up with a candidate more likely to appeal to the US in the general election.
Interesting. That type of ambiguity is not something the Clintons would stand for.
‘Superdelegates’ for both the Republican and Democratic parties....are toxic. I would limit their participation to no more than 5-percent of the total delegates from the fifty states.
But I doubt that the party elite have the guts to really cut them out.
This leads me back to the question if the top hundred of the DNC think that Hillary was a big mistake in 2016. I can think of a dozen better candidates than Hillary or Bernie that the party could have brought out and had more appeal toward the general public..
“to avoid nominating another loser like Hillary Clinton”
LMAO loser like Hillary.
IMHO the concept of “Super Delegate” disqualifies the entire Democratic Party. How can a government “of the People, for the People, and by the People” exist if selected individuals count more than others?
It took the Democrats 150 years to invalidate that line from Lincoln. Just as it took them 80 odd years to invalidate the Constitution.
Can we, the Republic, survive a third attempt?
BTW - I will be changing my voter registration from Democrat to Republican after almost 50 years. I do NOT support organizations that have been working very hard, and continue to do so, to destroy our Republic. Something about my oaths as an Officer and Mason.
Absolutely!
She can no more walk away from power and the abuse of power than a heroin addict can walk away from a fix.
The gigantic government, huge deficits, baby killing, homo-loving, anti-American, pro-welfare, pro-communism, anti-Israel, pro-climate change, anti-fossil fuel, open borders, and weak defense planks didn’t drive you out of the Democrat party? It took a corrupt nomination process to do that? Hmmmm....
Meanwhile, watch the RNC try to stuff their convention with more super delegates—in an effort to keep Trump from being nominated for re-election.
No, they did not decide to elect Hillary in 1972.
Either that or open primaries so democrats can vote for the weakest candidate.
Or both.
Sanders would've lost to TRUMP worse than Hillary! LOL
Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner
“It will never happen. The Democrats will never realize that voters have more sense than Beltway Swamp Elites.”
Agree, once acquired Dems NEVER give up power.
They’ll be a token gesture to this committee, nothing substantial.
Precisely. This system was put in place after 1972 to discourage grassroots efforts like the McGovern fiasco.
Superdelegates were also critical to Obama securing the nomination in 2008 and avoiding the first convention floor fight in ages.
It was all part of a crooked deal that dated back to the 1972 convention. It would good to put it to rest.
Well, why not superdelegates?
That IS after all, how the Soviet Union ran its votes. Strict, absolute Party-Line compliance also BY the Soviet (er, super) delegates too.
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