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Gabbard Victimized by DNC's Dubious Debate Criteria
Real Clear Politics ^ | Aug 23 2019 | Michael Tracey

Posted on 08/23/2019 11:27:40 AM PDT by rintintin

Tulsi Gabbard is on the verge of being excluded from the next Democratic presidential debate on the basis of criteria that appear increasingly absurd.

Take, instance, her poll standing in New Hampshire, which currently places Gabbard at 3.3% support, according to the RealClearPolitics average as of Aug. 20. One might suspect that such a figure would merit inclusion in the upcoming debates -- especially considering she’s ahead of several candidates who have already been granted entry, including Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, and Andrew Yang. But the Democratic National Committee has decreed that the polls constituting this average are not sufficiently “qualifying.”

What makes a poll “qualifying” in the eyes of the DNC? The answer is conspicuously inscrutable.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Hawaii; US: Minnesota; US: New Hampshire; US: New Jersey; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: amyklobuchar; andrewyang; betoorourke; california; corybooker; hawaii; india; jamaica; kamalaharris; kurdistan; minnesota; neverlivedinnewark; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; newark; newhampshire; newjersey; rintintroll; texas; tulsigabbard
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To: rintintin

it’s the same dnc that screwed dusty old geezer bernie saunders out of the nomination last time.


21 posted on 08/23/2019 11:51:49 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SaxxonWoods

She’s psychic, shouldn’t she have already known this?“

Are u talking about Tulsi, or Williamson?


22 posted on 08/23/2019 11:53:13 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

It’s a sad fact about the Democratic party that the relatively (emphasis) sane candidates (Gabbard, Delaney) are not being taken seriously while those with wacko ideas like Sanders, Harris and Buttigieg are.


23 posted on 08/23/2019 11:53:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She’s not white though, she’s Hawaiian.


24 posted on 08/23/2019 11:58:36 AM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Bob434

MAJ Gabbard, ARNG, released a vid of her in dress blues announcing she was going on two weeks annual training. I still see Hatch Act issues here.

She was trying to “otherize” the barking moonbats in the lineup as in, “Hey, I don’t hate the military like those nutjobs, because I’m normal & patriotic.”

Sorry, ma’am, but as a former Guardsman, I’m not buying. You’re just as big a gungrabber as the rest of them. In my time in the military I met lots of field grade officers who thought civilians shouldn’t have guns.


25 posted on 08/23/2019 12:03:46 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: rintintin

Gabbard has been too harsh not only on Kamala “Knee Pads” Harris, but she is also threatening Obama’s legacy, with all the talk about how Obama screwed up the middle east with his involvement in all of the civil wars over there!

The only thing left for her to say, because the media REFUSES to say it, is that Obama got the U.S. into more wars in his 8 years than W. Bush did in his 8 years! And for Slow Joe, that is both the TRUTH and FACTS!


26 posted on 08/23/2019 12:07:23 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: rintintin

She should go back to being a Republican (which I think she was originally).


27 posted on 08/23/2019 12:11:02 PM PDT by livius
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To: rintintin

Although liberal, she is too conservative.; also, they don’t want her attacks to sully whomever the DND is secretly maneuvering to get the nomination. They saw what she did to Harria. It’s just part of “stacking the deck.”


28 posted on 08/23/2019 12:11:48 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: rintintin

They had better not exclude her! There will be more hell over it than a little bit.


29 posted on 08/23/2019 12:11:53 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: luvbach1

Although liberal, she is too conservative; also, they don’t want her attacks to sully whomever the DNC is secretly maneuvering to get the nomination. They saw what she did to Harris. It’s just part of “stacking the deck.”


30 posted on 08/23/2019 12:12:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: thoughtomator
Per Wikipedia:
Gabbard was raised in a multicultural and multireligious household. Her father is of Samoan and European ancestry and an active lector at his Catholic church. Her mother, who was born in Decatur, Indiana, is of German descent and a practicing Hindu.

31 posted on 08/23/2019 12:17:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: Migraine

They had better not exclude her! There will be more hell over it than a little bit.
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This time I don’t think the dnc will be able to get away with all their manipulations.


32 posted on 08/23/2019 12:17:57 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

well either way she qualifies as a “woman of color” so she normally would get the red carpet from these people


33 posted on 08/23/2019 12:20:05 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“Hoebama”


34 posted on 08/23/2019 12:21:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The relatively same candidates could switch to the Republican party. We need more RINOs. /s


35 posted on 08/23/2019 12:29:26 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Bob434

Time will get you. ;)
Creatine, fish oil, Ginko, and meditation can help you some.
Lift weights, take walks, and sleep plenty too.


36 posted on 08/23/2019 12:46:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Is she considered White?
Typically, anyone that has non White heritage calls themselves the non White part.
I assume she would check Pacific Islander if filling out forms...


37 posted on 08/23/2019 12:51:27 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: z3n

“That hurt them last election, it may well hurt them again. Gabbard is more electable that most of these freaks”

She should change her party affiliation to Independent and run as an Independent.


38 posted on 08/23/2019 1:07:21 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: elcid1970

Seriously? That is frightening.


39 posted on 08/23/2019 1:16:56 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: thoughtomator

She’s half Samoan, lives in an represents Hawaii.


40 posted on 08/23/2019 1:18:28 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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