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yes, clearly warren is the most offensive element of this story. how dare she.
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lol “almost a day ago and yet to respond”
it’s almost as if she has a life outside of your personal newsfeed
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So she hands Donald Trump a talking point. Two weeks before a hugely important election in Virginia, she blows up internal conflict in the Democratic party with an accusation that’s contradicted by available facts. And when she’s called on it and has no reply, your response is “Hey, she’s a busy person.” FFS.
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how about sander’s home “town”?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/nyregion/board-of-elections-brooklyn-votes.html
how about refusing to honor sander’s officials’ requests for recounts?
it seems pretty likely people who believed clinton was the better candidate tried to put their finger on the scale.
i find it a bigger jump to say “the clintons” were pulling the strings behind the scenes. ( pretty much i put it in the same category as the theories that they have their own personal hit squad. )
they won’t. first, we need to the supreme court to realize that green bills printed by the government and spent by corporations aren’t equal to speech uttered or typed by real live human beings.
we need to reign in money in politics, and maybe then the democrats can tilt towards to the left. it’s a long road though.
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My issue was (and remains) with the widespread depiction of non-anonymous, possibly negotiated or coerced, yet-to-be-cast superdelegate votes being combined with and overshadowing actual “constituent vote” delegates.
It served to give the impression that the primary was already decided (by the Democratic establishment, no less) and reinforced the concept that a constituent’s vote didn’t count unless cast for the presumed winner.
Misleading graphics is “a thing” around here:
DATA / DATAVIZ / INFOGRAPHICS / STATISTICS
To be doing this headed into Super Tuesday, to me, was the intentional framing of the desired outcome.
How was this not a form of psychological voter suppression?
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if democratic turnout on november 7 is depressed because brazile wanted to sell extra copies of her damn book, there will be hell to pay.
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Turnout’s been pretty low since around 2010, and I think it’s because people can tell that the party doesn’t care about them. People trying to turn the Democratic Party back into a people’s party have been thwarted at every turn. They have to clean house, and cleaning house is an ugly process. No way around it.
Dems have been putting off this housecleaning for many reasons, one of which is the one you mentioned; no one wants the party to look bad come election day. But putting off the pain has only made the situation worse, and if we put it off any longer, we could be looking at a really bad 2020 and an even worse 2024. Time to fix the party now.
And if Brazile manages to sell a few books in the process, eh, whatever. Just as long as this broken party gets fixed.
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It’s not a by-election for dogcatcher.
it’s fucking important.
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2016, 2014, and 2012 were important, too. The Democrats might have done better if they hadn’t fucked themselves over. They cannot hope to do better until they un-fuck themselves. That’s what this process is about.
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It would also help a lot if people a) paid attention to politics beyond the presidential election, and b) understood the realities of the American two-party system, and didn’t let perfect be the enemy of good with the result that the shitty wins.
I mean, there are arguments, some good, some bad, to be made that the Democrats don’t care about a lot of people. But I can guarantee that even the Democratic negligence will be better than the Republicans’ active pursuit of things that hurt everyone except their super-rich donors.
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I know. I voted for Clinton in the general, and I don’t regret doing so. But right now, I think a lot of people feel like the Democrats just don’t care about them. It is my hope that cleaning house will improve the party’s image, as well as its internal operations.
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You know, that sounds an awful lot like what a lot of Trump supporters said, who just want to blow up the entire system, Democrat and Republican.
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And if there ever is a time to blow up the Democratic party and rebuild it from the ground up, that time is NOT NOW, with the GOP gone nuts, and Trump in the White House.
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True that. As is, if we lose a liberal justice all hell will break loose as the court deletes all the liberal gains since the New Deal.
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how about primary season? When democrats go to the polls and actually have the choice of opting for a progressive over a “well, at least he’s not trump” candidate?
how about not “a week before the general?”
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The differing reactions of the right wing of the Democrats to Brazile’s book release vs HRC’s provides an interesting contrast:
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