Posted on 05/19/2016 8:52:26 AM PDT by Lorianne
Contentious supporters of the two rivals for the Democratic nomination turned the selection of Nevada’s national delegates this weekend into a virtual battlefield, with the chairman gaveling the proceeding to a peremptory close and fleeing the stage while armed guards cleared the meeting venue.
The spectacle of Democratic Party officials railroading through a ruling favorable to Hillary Clinton while denying certification to some 58 Bernie Sanders delegates to the state convention comes on top of charges that caucuses and primary votes around the country have been manipulated to beef up Clinton’s much-touted lead in national delegates. Democrats have reason to worry that similar chaos could overtake a contested national convention in July as the strong-arm tactics of party officials from Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on down provide little incentive for Sanders or his supporters to go quietly into the night.
In fact, as the federal investigation of Clinton’s use of a private server for official emails continues to loom over her campaign, Democrats are risking a perfect storm combining the chaos of their 1968 convention in Chicago and the creeping disclosure that overtook Richard Nixon’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President.
Nixon won re-election in 1972 in a landslide even though a relatively harmless-seeming dirty trick — the break-in into DNC offices in the Watergate complex — was the subject of investigative reporting by the Washington Post and other news media.
That break-in, of course, proved to be the tip of an iceberg of malfeasance, bribery and criminality in the Nixon campaign machine that led to impeachment proceedings and the first resignation of a president in U.S. history
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THE DEMOCRATS ARE TOAST!
...how'd THAT work out for us?
Yes, that is the media themed lie most likely.
After the 2004 election the Democrats WERE toast but the dried up old farts who ran the GOPee managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory just in time for 2006.
Ahem--- it came down to Ohio in 2004. It was fairly close vote and Lurch coulda won if about 50k votes flipped as I recall.
Democrats Not Republicans May Be On the Verge of Unraveling
Democrats AND Republicans May Be On the Verge of Unraveling
There. Fixed it.
Ohio
BUSH 2,859,768 50.81%
KERRY 2,741,167 48.71%
118K vote difference divided by 2 is 59K, yup close enough.
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