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Wed May 18, 2016, 09:11 AM May 2016

Sam Wang: Mystified at complaints about Dems' nomination process.A reformer's dream! (HRC GP)

Interesting opinion:

Sam Wang
?@SamWangPhD
Mystified at complaints about Dems' nomination process. A reformer's dream: majority vote, party still gets some say. What's not to like?
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Sam Wang ?@SamWangPhD Apr 28
.@SamWangPhD Consider alternatives... 1) Winner-take-all races, which is an Electoral-College-type problem. This has brought the GOP grief.
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Sam Wang ?@SamWangPhD Apr 28
.@SamWangPhD 2) Imagine eliminating superdelegates...what, the party gets no say at all? One could do that...somehow I find that idea odd.
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Sam Wang ?@SamWangPhD Apr 28
.@SamWangPhD ...superdelegates could hypothetically choose between pop. vote-getter & Establishment candidate. This year, Clinton is both.
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Sam Wang ?@SamWangPhD Apr 28
.@SamWangPhD Obviously, it is bad for one's own choice to lose. But the current conflict looks like a normally functioning party at work.


https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/725908627819626500

and yesterday;

Sam Wang
?@SamWangPhD
My G*d, are you people still writing about the Democratic primaries??
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