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Actual GOP delegate admits primaries are a sham (Original Post) yuiyoshida Mar 2016 OP
zowie. She is great. oldandhappy Mar 2016 #1
She's confusing party with the electorate fpublic Mar 2016 #2

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
1. zowie. She is great.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:22 PM
Mar 2016

Who is she? Where is she usually broadcasting? I want more of this! Thanks. She is a great find.

fpublic

(58 posts)
2. She's confusing party with the electorate
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:48 AM
Mar 2016

The Repub Party is not required to be responsive to the electorate as a whole. It can nominate according to the whims of a smoke-filled room, with Feng Shui, with astrology, from a coin-flip, from it's delegates, from its primary results, or any method it chooses at the convention.

There's no affront to democracy whether the Repubs nominate from a back-room Koch Bros cabal or from a 2nd amendment Drumpf convention putsch, only bad politics. Remember which party we are talking about.

Now the Dems are at risk in a similar but way. But since turnout and voter enthusiasm are keys to Dem victory, we need to hold the party's feet to fire if we see DWS's thumb on the scale. Ignoring and frustrating primary voter enthusiasm is the way to stifle Nov turnout. We need every vote to win the Presidency, the Senate, and even possibly take back the House.

Democracy needs to operate come November. We all need to be ready to participate and to protect the integrity of the vote.

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