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Why Voters Might "Respectfully Disagree" With Clinton's Declaration of Victory (Original Post) pinebox May 2016 OP
Bernie lost, get over it. JaneyVee May 2016 #1
God, this election is going to be a total shitshow.... vi5 May 2016 #2
It already has been. silvershadow May 2016 #12
But until now... vi5 May 2016 #19
Or not so respectfully Ferd Berfel May 2016 #3
Good for you Arneoker May 2016 #9
I do support progressive causes and those that champion them Ferd Berfel May 2016 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #4
She always drops in the polls. HooptieWagon May 2016 #5
Which is exactly why they want Bernie to drop out. Prolonging her campaign does hurt her - because DebDoo May 2016 #11
It's a long time until November. HooptieWagon May 2016 #17
^^ YES ^^ She is going down, fast. senz May 2016 #13
It's nothing more than basic mathematics. She won the nomination. Trust Buster May 2016 #6
Except she has not won the nomination. Your math is faulty. If she had won it, she'd be the first Bluenorthwest May 2016 #8
Well, then,why don't you Hill supporters just RELAX? Why so nervous? senz May 2016 #14
Must be more Clinton meth. HooptieWagon May 2016 #18
I'm going to go disagree on Monday dana_b May 2016 #7
Beautiful! Get the word out. senz May 2016 #15
Although -- I expect things to get worse for Hill between now and CA voting day. senz May 2016 #16
 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
2. God, this election is going to be a total shitshow....
Sun May 22, 2016, 10:49 AM
May 2016

No, I'm not a Bernie Bro.
No, I don't like Clinton
Yes, I'll vote for whoever is the Democratic nominee.
Like it or not, I'm sure Clinton will be that nominee.

But by any objective standard, 2 parties nominating candidates who a majority of the country view unfavorably is unprecedented and a total disaster.

The DNC and any Dem super pacs better get their asses in gear and start attacking trump in every way possible. And stop worrying about what the DC punditry says or thinks. Call Trump out on every single shitty thing he's ever said, regardless of whether Morning Joe or Chuck Todd or whoever else calls you "unfair" or whatever else.

 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
19. But until now...
Sun May 22, 2016, 03:27 PM
May 2016

The stakes have mostly been inter-party and somewhat abstract. Now going into an actual election with these 2 actual candidates (as I said, at this point I don't see how Hillary doesn't win the nom, whether I like it or not).

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
3. Or not so respectfully
Sun May 22, 2016, 10:50 AM
May 2016

I feel no need to respect the wall Street corporate right wing. I have as much respect for them as they have for me.

Arneoker

(375 posts)
9. Good for you
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:24 AM
May 2016

I feel no need to respect those so-called "progressives" who feel no obligation to be of any kind of use to the causes they supposedly support. I'm not saying applies to all of the Bernie supporters, but it does seem to apply to a lot of them.

Response to pinebox (Original post)

DebDoo

(319 posts)
11. Which is exactly why they want Bernie to drop out. Prolonging her campaign does hurt her - because
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:51 AM
May 2016

She's weak. And the longer she campaigns the more that weakness is exposed

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
17. It's a long time until November.
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:27 PM
May 2016

She can't exactly go into hibernation. If she can't handle a primary campaign against Sanders, she's not going to handle a GE campaign against Trump. It's a mistake to nominate a weak candidate who only goes down in polls the more exposure she gets.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. Except she has not won the nomination. Your math is faulty. If she had won it, she'd be the first
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:20 AM
May 2016

to show it off to the cameras. But she can't because the nomination is not yet hers. The math says 'no nominee yet'. She does not have the required delegates as yet. This week she lost Oregon's closed Democratic primary by a very large margin, double digits.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
18. Must be more Clinton meth.
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:29 PM
May 2016

She can't reach 2383 delegates until the convention when the superdelegates vote.

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
7. I'm going to go disagree on Monday
Sun May 22, 2016, 11:03 AM
May 2016

there's early voting in California. I hope that people take advantage of it!

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