Daily Kos Anticipating Transitioning to General Election After March 15

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Allan Brauer ?@allanbrauer 3h3 hours ago
March 15, and Daily Kos transition to General Election footing http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/4/1495813/-March-15-and-Daily-Kos-transition-to-General-Election-footing … / Dad is going to turn this car around!

Kos:

As of today, Hillary Clinton has 596 delegates to Bernie Sanders’ 407 (not including Super Delegates, because fuck them they don’t count). That is a 59.4 to 40.5 percent split. Over the next two weeks, By March 15, nearly half the delegates will have been awarded. By all indications, Clinton will expand that delegate lead.

If she doesn’t, and Bernie Sanders overperforms expectations and the polls, then congrats to him, this primary continues! But if he continues to fall short, the math becomes prohibitive. If your state hasn’t voted, don’t sweat it! You can still vote for whoever you want when it’s your turn. But don’t get upset that your vote doesn’t matter. That’s the way the primary calendar works. Iowa and New Hampshire’s votes matter the most for no rational reason, and everyone else gets to pick among the scraps until the scraps are gone and the math is determinative. It’s a bullshit system, but it’s what we’re stuck with. We can all work to change it next time around.

To reiterate, if Sanders eats into Clinton’s big delegate lead by March 15, then we carry on. But if he doesn’t, then on March 15 this site officially transitions to General Election footing. That means, we will focus our attention not just on Donald Trump or his rivals, but also on the Senate, the House, and state-level races. If you want the most liberal government possible, we aren’t going to get that this cycle in the White House, but we can keep building the bench down the ballot so that come 2024, we have lots of great liberals to choose from.

But it does us no good to keep fighting over something that is already determined. People have voted, and the numbers are the numbers. It’s time to move on and focus on what binds us together.


read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/4/1495813/-March-15-and-Daily-Kos-transition-to-General-Election-footing

[whatchamacallit]

1. He's a turd

[GusBob]

2. Kos is cool about not taunting or spiking the ball

I think that's right

Especially before you cross the goal line

[roguevalley]

12. he's a hrc supporter and wants the long nightmare over. Who goes there anymore?

[iAZZZo]

15. stopped posting shortly after the latest site "upgrade" few months ago

friggin mess with 20-30+ scripts running on each page reload. took forever

understand how a site owner wants to monetize their site but that was fucking ridiculous. mobile access was incomprehensible

just visited now and format/presentation still requires coders who understand the "back end"

reading text posts , looks like the site's going full-tilt hillary/neocon-republican. as Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush was quoted as saying in:

GOP hawks declare war on Trump; Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and vote for Clinton instead.http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-clinton-neoconservatives-220151

“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” said Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush and a strategic theorist who argues for a muscular U.S. role abroad. Trump's election would be “an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy." (emphasis added)

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[Smarmie Doofus]

3. I give up. What "binds us together"?

Oh... I get it. It's at the link.

I doubt it. But I'll give it a try.

>>It’s time to move on and focus on what binds us together. >>>

[SidDithers]

4. DU should follow suit...nt

Sid

[merrily]

8. Suggest that in ATA. Doesn't do any good here.

[joshcryer]

5. Wow.

[artislife]

14. Josh cryer...apt. I just saw your tagling

Both sides whining about getting blocked is just.....boring. Who cares?

[joshcryer]

18. Thanks for noticing.

[catnhatnh]

6. I hope he is also anticipating transitioning to less readership

because if he does he will no longer be bookmarked on my computer, or many others, I trust...

[joshcryer]

9. Kos is a top 200 site.

It will have little effect. If anything he'll get more traffic since Trump supporters will see the site as a target.

[merrily]

7. Don't post there. Could not care less.

[RoccoR5955]

10. He's dreaming! n/t

[Alfresco]

11. Great news. Reality based progressives will return in droves. Thanks Kos.

[roguevalley]

13. you mean those who pick and choose their reality will return. good.

[Cavallo]

17. hahahahhaha

I think they woke up to something in this race so far, that you didn't.

[Cavallo]

16. When I found out the super delegates even include lobbyist it became too rigged for me

I'm seriously considering re-registering as an Independent.

One thing stopping me is not being able to vote for Bernie in the primary if I do.

[jfern]

19. Kos doesn't determine when there's a nominee

And that won't be March 15.

I should hope that DU is sensible and waits until one candidate has a majority of the pledged delegates or the other candidate drops out or something like that.

[bigtree]

20. kick