The party needs to do a thorough and open investigation.

As in the DNC? Not gonna happen.

will not sadly.

It's pretty clear they did an incompetent job of conducting the caucus. What is a bit murkier is if they were rigging the caucuses deliberately, either on their own initiative or on instructions from DNC Debbie. A supoena of Andy McGuires emails might prove enlightening, but the Sanders campaign isn't going to persue it. Some voting rights groups might though. We'll have to see if McGuire lawyers up.

about the 2016 elections, both in the Primary AND on the General. Election fraud is just one
more of the many ways -- besides CU and dark money in politics -- that we stand to lose our
democracy if we're not vigilant about maintaining it fraud-free.

Same reason Gore should have fought tooth and toenail to the bitter end, and not capitulated to cries of "Sore Loserman" by the freepers.

A marker for history.

never should have been in the first place.

Yes, a marker in history.

as if 0.2% is a big win. But even that is doubtful

She will do whatever she can to sweep this under the carpet.

Third Way or the Highway, girl! What are you, a complacent millennial?

let alone do the US proud in the world.

confidence in Clinton.

There are those in the Democratic establishment who are seeing that Sanders is going to clean house to bring the people into the process and Clinton cannot win so as to protect the status quo and the lobbyist class from a Sanders house cleaning.

Kind of like...OK, y'all didn't like our inevitable candidate, looks like we made a mistake, so how about this one? or this one?

It just adds to Bernie's reputation of being consistent and trustworthy. And HRCs female/gender support...doubt it will go all in for any change of the above boring candidates who have "been there, done that, and lost". They do have name recognition, I'll grant you that.

But I truly understand (and am happy about) their concern and their rummaging about for yet another establishment candidate.

even tho currently enjoying a favorable reputation, will certainly earn demerits in my book. They'd better think twice before assenting to run under such circumstances. It will tarnish that reputation in the minds of many for a long time.

They smother his message at their political peril. The people are awakening and recognizing the opportunity. I proudly make this vote my first without a clothespin since McGovern.

Hillary as the designated supervisor of the status quo.

Kerry has said hundreds of time that he is out of politics and doing a job he loves.

Biden, as VP, could run, but remember Obama just put him in charge of the "moonshot" on cancer --' and he decided not to run because of family. He is completely unlikely to do this.

Note no one can just get in the race, run and win. Too many deadlines are passed. These stories are not coming from anyone around these two good men - I would suggest the voices in the media pushing this could not understand the two men.

He said he was horrified at how incompetent Hillary's campaign was, her wounds are self-inflicted, 'the establishment' was begging Pres Obama to step in and help her campaign or find another candidate. A whole lot of hearsay and unnamed 'sources', but it does reflect the near panic of the establishment. The interviewer was stunned.

If Hillary cannot win the nomination with the DNC pulling every string on her behalf and with its thumb on the scale, how can she win the general election? If even many Democrats mistrust her, how can they expect her her to appeal to a broader audience?

...said no rational person, ever.

Republicans will own the 'vote fraud issue'! They just point and say look at the democrats in Iowa!
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holds any national standing whatsoever.

I think Iowa voters do a pretty good job of listening to and vetting the candidates of both parties, from their perspective. However, if the parties aren't able to conduct honest and transparent caucuses then they shouldn't be first on the schedule.

i was watching the young turks. the spread between bernie and hillary kept dropping. tyt explained that, although the caucuses were all over, the counting continued in some of the bigger turnout areas. and then around 0.2 percent, it just stopped increasing for bernie and stopped decreasing for hillary. my suspicion is that when they saw how close it was and that it was clear bernie was going to overtake her for the win, the word went out and the counters started transposing numbers and "miscounting" votes. i do not think for a second that the climbing stopped at 0.2 percent by accident. do we really think they were not communicating? they had to drop some votes to try and eek out barely a "win" for hillary. my guess is that if fraud had not been committed, bernie would have tied at 0 percent difference and then would have gone on for a slight win, probably half a percent or so.

again, if they had proof that the votes were clearly supportive of a hillary win, they would be shoving our faces in it.

the des moines register needs to file suit

I don't see how any reasonable person could disagree with that.

and this breach of trust.