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Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates
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Posted on 08/25/2018 2:10:08 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Democrats voted Saturday to drastically scale back the controversial superdelegate system that gives elected officials and party insiders an outsize say in the party’s presidential nominating process, delivering a significant victory for Bernie Sanders and his supporters ahead of 2020.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020dncconvention; delegate; delegates; democrat; democratic; democrats; nomination; superdelegate; superdelegates
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To: piytar

KAGA!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga


21 posted on 08/25/2018 2:44:47 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

What you have to worry about is all the dummies who don’t realize what they are playing with


22 posted on 08/25/2018 2:48:12 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: freedumb2003

Actually, they think a 10W speaker on an amp that can be turned to volume 20 is louder and has better fidelity than an 80W speaker on amp that can be turned to volume 10


23 posted on 08/25/2018 2:51:08 PM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: ameribbean expat
Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates until they're needed again.
24 posted on 08/25/2018 2:53:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: nwrep
Isn’t this undoing changes made 40 years ago to prevent another McGovern from being nominated?

For the most part and hopefully it leads to another McGovern (Sanders?).

25 posted on 08/25/2018 2:55:05 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: ameribbean expat; All
Thank you for referencing that article ameribbean expat. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regardless what Democrats do with constitutionally undefined superdelegates, it remains that the Founding States never expressly constitutionally gave ordinary voters the specific power to elect the president.

In other words, the 12th Amendment presidential election process has been badly corrupted by the anti-constitutional republic political parties imo.

More specifically, uniparty Democrats and RINOs fight over which party gets to control state powers and state revenues that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress steals from the states, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

Note that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds to control an aspect of domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7).

In other words, if a given federal domestic spending program is not reasonably related to the mail service, then patriots can bet that the program is unconstitutional and be right probably most of the time.

So the key question regarding federal domestic policy is how many political parties does it take to run the mail service?

I say none, no political parties need to run the mail service.

In fact, when the states wise up and repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the repeal amendment needs a provision that prohibits political party support of federal elected officials imo.

26 posted on 08/25/2018 3:00:03 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: taxcontrol
Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he making a mistake."

This is a mistake by Democrats. The whole point of the superdelegate system was to prevent another George McGovern nomination.
27 posted on 08/25/2018 3:00:13 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Repeal 16-17

Bernie will be 78 in 2020. And his protege Occasionally-Corked, will be just 30 years old -— 8(, so hopefully, he’s got someone else just as unelectable, in mind.


28 posted on 08/25/2018 3:07:08 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ameribbean expat

Bernie 2020 will be the classic battle Royale between socialist/capitalist.

Trump will destroy him.


29 posted on 08/25/2018 3:08:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: Amendment10
In other words, the 12th Amendment presidential election process has been badly corrupted by the anti-constitutional republic political parties imo.

The 12th Amendment was an outgrowth of the political parties. The presidential tickets destabilized the original Electoral College voting procedures (Article II, Section 1, Clause 3).

I, of course, agree with everything you said about the 17th Amendment. The States back then were very stupid.

30 posted on 08/25/2018 3:09:58 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Slyfox

Of course they did... you can’t be godlike, as long as God exists


31 posted on 08/25/2018 3:11:13 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ameribbean expat

Bernie the Red won’t be the D candidate (too damned old and he looks it too)

but nevertheless, dumping the rigged DNC vote system is a big step forward for the D party

now if they can only break free of SorozNazi and the foreign IslamoNazi dictatorships’ control! ($$)


32 posted on 08/25/2018 3:11:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, twe dhey're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Repeal 16-17; All
"The 12th Amendment was an outgrowth of the political parties. The presidential tickets destabilized the original Electoral College voting procedures (Article II, Section 1, Clause 3)."

I agree with you to an extent.

But it remains that much of 12A is being wrongly ignored.

33 posted on 08/25/2018 3:18:39 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: TomGuy
That would effectively end any chance Hillary might think she would have in 2020. Some big donors have been signaling to her since election night that that (2016) was her final chance.

I was thinking the same thing. This tells me that the Clintons don't have the clout with the DNC that they used to.

BTW, haven't heard much from Hillary lately. Not that I'm complaining.
34 posted on 08/25/2018 3:21:19 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: Alberta's Child
Give them some credit. They’re setting up a nomination process that will let Democrat voters do in the future what Republican voters did in 2016: nominate a presidential candidate who isn’t a paid stooge of Wall Street and foreign governments.

Exactly. When you think about it, Sanders and Trump voters have more in common with each other than they do with the mainstream candidates that their respective parties ran.

Anyhow, there's some entertaining fighting going on over this at DU. Kinda wish I still had my troll accounts.

35 posted on 08/25/2018 3:23:11 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: FatherofFive
Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez 2020!

(Or as she's otherwise known as, Occasional Cortex)

36 posted on 08/25/2018 3:24:08 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump: America First. Obama: Quran First. Clintons: Our Money First)
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To: Rennes Templar
Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez 2020!

Ocasio-Cortez is ineligible (too young). How about Sanders/Warren?

37 posted on 08/25/2018 3:34:22 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Bernie Sanders looks old enough to be Donald Trump’s father. LOL.


38 posted on 08/25/2018 3:44:25 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Drew68

LOL — right.


39 posted on 08/25/2018 3:45:15 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Flaming Conservative

[Occasionally-Corked]

I like it.


40 posted on 08/25/2018 3:56:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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