No. State and local governments run primaries.
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right - unless a candidate has a catastrophic debate performance that breaks the parties confidence.
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And thatâs what I wanted to write aboutâthe friends, brothers, lovers in the counterfeit male-dominated Left. The good guys who think they know what Womenâs Lib, as they so chummily call it, is all aboutâwho then proceed to degrade and destroy women by almost everything they say and do
Letâs run it down. White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males (yes, yes, even with their pasty fingers back in black and brown pies again). It could just make one a bit uneasy.
Goodbye, goodbye. To hell with the simplistic notion that automatic freedom for womenâor nonwhite peoplesâwill come about zap! with the advent of a socialist revolution. Bullshit. Two evils pre-date capitalism and clearly have been able to survive and post-date socialism: sexism and racism.
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Doesnât matter âŚdoesnât matterâŚdoesnât matterâŚwe HAVE to VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO. America will NOT survive as a nation with 4 more years ( and god knows how many more beyond thatâŚ) if the orange one wins again.
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No worries there, I think Sanders will be fine in the debates, unless he gets too angry or repeats some of the distortions fed to him by David Sirota.
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(Original source, as best as I can tell.)
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I really donât think Sanders can win the debate so overwhelmingly as to make everyone backing Biden to shift to supporting him. I mean, itâs not impossible. But again, it sure isnât likely either.
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No - I donât think he can. But Biden could have an overwhelmingly bad debate that makes clear heâs not fit.
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To win on the first ballot a candidate needs a majority of 3979 delegates
As of this morning Biden has 21.3% of 3979 and Sanders has 17.2% of 3979
Biden has a 4.1% lead
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I realize we said âanyone with a pulseâ but seriously, Joe Biden?
Now we have to listen to Burisma investigations for the next decade?
And anyone voting for him has most certainly not listened to him freestyle in the past few months, he is way way past his prime, if he was driving youâd forcefully take the keys away from him.
That next debate between the two of them with no audience is going to be shocking to many.
I blame the corporate media, they are in the tank hard for him, I do not understand what their freaking problem is.
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You canât make something clear if it is false.
He (or Bernie) could get hit by a bus tomorrow, or die of coronavirus or salmonella or heart disease, but the narrative being shared by (some) Sanders supporters and Trump supporters and FOX talking heads (and probably many Russian trollies) that Biden is in the throes of dementia is not well-supported, and the eagerness with which people are repeating it just reinforces some of the concerns people have about Bernieâs supporters.
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True; I should have said that Bidenâs winning individual state primaries by fairly big margins, meaning heâs building up delegates faster than Sanders.
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There were children in cages under Obama, there will be children in cages under Biden
âBack to normalâ doesnât mean back to normal for, like, the Carter administration, or the Warren Court
Electing Uncle Joe is about something, but itâs not about transforming Americaâs values and priorities
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Iâm NOT saying that Biden is in the throes of dementia. I am saying he is obviously not as sharp as he once was - call it what you will. Cognitive decline is the term that seems most fair, otherwise I donât have a word for it. But it gives me great doubts about his fitness.
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Bernie is behind by about 150 delegates. Washington is not finished counting. This is while 80+ delegates are still on the table from 3 states he won (Cali, Utah, and Colorado). Biden IS NOT EVEN HALFWAY to 1991 delegates. Why the hell would Sanders drop out now?
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peopleâs intuitions about how elections work are being distorted by this endless stupid primary process
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That statement should be lovingly cross stitched and mounted in a high-quality frame. It pairs very well with âI thought I had freedom of expression?!â (Which is not quite what happened in this case but thatâs what I thought of)
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I have to say that I believe that its no coincidence the way the press has covered this. Note:
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Every state that Bernie has won, except maybe Nevada, the local democrats slow walked his results. California - still not in. Colorado - still counting. Washington - just 2/3 counted by this morning.
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Meanwhile the headlines are flooded with âBiden Wins!!â while Super Tuesday really looked like a tie.
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March 10th the press was giving Michigan to Biden when 1% was counted. No such early announcement for North Dakota or Washington where Sanders won.
This is not necessarily a coordinated effort, but it is an effort, and an effort by corporate interests to see Sanders ânot winâ.
The numbers are the numbers. The big harm here is the very obvious bias and the conclusion of young voters that the contest is rigged, and their vote does not matter. Young voters went 85% for Sanders, and there are more young voters than old voters, yet only 15% of voters were from the youngest age group 18-30. If they are discouraged from voting, Sanders canât win. And Biden canât win in Nov. either.
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Sanders has shortcomingsâlike heâs super old, and something something blah blah Cuba Sandinistas blah blahâbut we can all understand why certain people vote for him instead of somebody else
When people vote for Biden instead of, like, um, literally all the other primary candidates, I donât get it
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