2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow would super delegates nominating Hillary if she loses the popular vote
be any different then what a corrupt scotus did in 2000 with shrub?
corkhead
(6,119 posts)of the Democratic party.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,034 posts)Barack had more delegates, including most of the Super delegates. Barack won the nomination. The Clintons campaigned hard for Barack. Barack asked Hillary to be Secretary of State.
That sounds like life-long Democrats honoring their Party's rules and coming together for the good of the country.
Nothing at all like 2000.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)advocating for super delegates to nullify a popular vote without a regular delegate win is totally different.
LuvLoogie
(7,034 posts)Careful now. Your anti-Hillary DU cred will be called into question.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)Will she do the right thing now is the question.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)The Democratic Primaries are just an internal process to determine which Democrat is the Party's nominee.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)Gotcha
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I was simply pointing out a significant technical difference between the 2000 General Election and the 2016 Democratic Primary election. One is an official Federal election, the other is an internal Party election.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)What's your point?
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)Nuff said.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)But 60 Super Delegates still went to Barack giving him the magic number.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)and instead they went to Hillary, he would not have won and would not have been the nominee.
I supported Obama from the day he announced. If Hillary had the magic number of delegates instead, I would have happily worked my ass off to get her elected the 44th president of the United States.
Of course, I've been participating in this process for more than three decades and understand fully how it works.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)This year, I have absolutely no doubt, that nominee will be Hillary Clinton.
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)And don't think for a minute that we have forgotten that crap. We haven't.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Unlike Shrub who actually became President.