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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:26 PM
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At what point does DU call the rallying cry?
Do all candidates but one have to drop? What about mathematical impossibility?

Who makes that call -- the Admins?
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:27 PM
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1. As long as two candidates are in the race....
it's premature to consider it a win for either.
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:28 PM
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3. Definitely
I wish certain people would receive and process that message! :banghead:
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:29 PM
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4. The OP isn't a question about DU policy...
it's another jab at Hillary supporters.
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:31 PM
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6. If so, that's a shame
Another class of thread of me to hide...
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:33 PM
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7. No, the OP is a question about DU policies seeing as how the OP joined in 2007
and didn't go through this the last time.
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Clovis Sangrail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:34 PM
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10. meh... I go with the mathematical possiblity thing
once it's no longer feasible for somebody to get the majority of pledged delegates they should drop (or be kicked).

Neither Hillary nor Obama are at that point so either dropping ATM would be silly.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:36 PM
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14. I am in PA -- I think this will continue through April at a minimum, personally.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:28 PM
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2. When one of them starts crying?
No, wait, that already happened.

Say "uncle."
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:30 PM
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5. For most of us, until a nominee is chosen. For the others who try to spread disunity
Edited on Sun Feb-24-08 09:31 PM by still_one
among us, they are irrelevent, and won't matter
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:34 PM
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11. Thank you
So it is a DNC call that they look for?

Is that what happened in 2004 -- DU unified once the party announced?
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 11:43 PM
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24. I sure hope this doesn't create bad feelings among us. We are all we got /nt
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:33 PM
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8. So long as we don't have a declared winner.
Edited on Sun Feb-24-08 09:34 PM by Lone_Star_Dem
As it is right now we have two candidates who could still win.
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ErnestoG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:34 PM
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9. After nomination
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:35 PM
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12. So in 2004, the infighting was allowed up through the Convention
even though Kerry had it sewn up in March?
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ErnestoG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:52 PM
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22. I wasn't here then...but I'm told it was pretty nasty right up to the nomination
and then the curtain came down on any more infighting.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:35 PM
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13. The admins don't tell people what to think around here. They provide the framework, and
go pretty much hands-off otherwise.

Redstone
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:36 PM
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15. I thought there was a rule in place about backing the nominee?
Did I misunderstand that?
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:45 PM
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16. Yes, that's the rule. And if you understood that, why did you ask your question?
Redstone
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comradebillyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:46 PM
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17. we don't have a nominee yet
when we have a nominee, like when one candidate gets enough delegate votes to win outright or when all other candidates have conceded. Neither of those conditions have been met at this time.

I think this place is still supposed to be Democratic Underground, not Obama Underground.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:50 PM
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20. For cryin' out loud -- put the partisan away
I am TRYING to understand the dynamics here.

Did Kerry have the nomination mathematically sewn up in March of 2004? Is that the point that the rule kicked in?

Look -- neither candidate will get to 2025 on the state primaries/caucus' alone. Put away the partisan bickering for a second and help me understand how this works.

Thanks.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:46 PM
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18. The Answer is March 5th, after Texas
:)
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:49 PM
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19. Are you asking "when do they put nonconformists on the sacrificial altar"?



You're in a real rush. But then again, you're well behind some of your buddies. They've been calling for blood for weeks now.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:51 PM
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21. No -- not asking that at all. I wasn't here in 2004
but probably would have been a screaming Deaniac back then if I was. :P

I am just trying to understand how Skinner and Co. have this set up.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 09:57 PM
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23. I wasn't here in '04 either
But considering the environment at present it may not take a "purge" to rid the place of people who don't bow down at the altar of Obama. The behavior of some Obama supporters may be enough to clean the place out.
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comradebillyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 11:46 PM
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25. Skinner and the mods don't pick the nominee
DU supports the democratic nominee. We don't have a nominee yet. When there is a clear nominee, like you know, when only one candidate is left standing, then we can worry about working up some enthusiasm for that person.

Are you just being deliberately obtuse? Or is it that you don't understand because you don't like the answer you are getting?

SKINNER DOES NOT SELECT THE NOMINEE!!!!!!
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