Are we gonna allow the South to pick...Ed Shultz....very good Ed.

[bkkyosemite]

https://www.facebook.com/edschultzshow/videos/10153698000120326/

[firebrand80]

1. Let's also take the Mountain West states away from Bernie nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. That is outstanding!

Thank you for posting it.

Fav line, "Go home yourself!"

[baldguy]

3. Yes, let's disenfranchise millions of Americans b/c they didn't vote for your approved candidate.

[geek tragedy]

4. Hey Bernie People: should we just give the voters in the South 3/5 of a vote in our primary? nt

[Octafish]

5. No. It's a case of their vote not being worth 1 1/2 times everybody else's.

All votes should be worth "1 vote." It's called "Democracy."

[Peace Patriot]

6. Thank you! That is the truth of it!

[frylock]

11. You'll go back to hating the South once the GE comes around.

Just like you'll go back to hating the WaPo and NYDN if Mrs. Clinton were to somehow win the election.

[Zorra]

7. Recommend. The vast majority of us don't want the Bible Belt crushing all our hopes for

national justice, equality, and a safer, cleaner, kinder future for everyone.

[MineralMan]

8. Our system for selecting a Democratic nominee includes

all 50 states and the Democrats who live in them. Any suggestion that some Democrats are superior to others due to the state they live in is beyond specious.

Using that argument, we'd throw out all states that don't consistently vote in the majority for Democratic Presidents. That would eliminate some of the states Bernie has won. People should actually think about what they are suggesting before saying incredibly ignorant things, I believe.

Either the Democratic Party is a nationwide party or it is not. Every state counts. Every Democrat counts.

This entire argument is beyond ridiculous.

[msanthrope]

9. Don't worry. New York is coming. nt

[bkkyosemite]

10. Yes don't worry it's coming........very soon.......Feeling the Bern

[cemaphonic]

12. Ugh, this again

I really wish that Sanders' supporters would stop with this argument - It's completely rooted in the kind of political gamesmanship that his campaign is supposed to be rejecting, and is hypocritical to boot. Most of Bernie's strongest performances are in states that are more deeply red than anywhere in the South. Do we want Idaho and Utah picking our candidates either? So far, the pattern that has emerged is that both are competitive in the Midwest, Hilary dominates the South/Southwest, while Bernie dominates the Plains, Rocky Mountains, the PNW, and New England. Neither one can win without a strong showing in both the Mid-Atlantic region and California, therefore marginalizing either candidate as a regional candidate is false and misleading.

More importantly, unless you live in a swing state, the primaries are the only point at which voters in red or blue states have any say in the outcome of the presidential race. If we are going to go down the road of engineering the primaries to reflect GE strategy, we are going to end up with The President of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania even more than we already do. Which would also have the effect of making it much harder for candidates like Obama or Sanders to win against establishment heavyweights like Clinton .

And yeah, considering the heavily African-American Democratic base in the Deep South, writing them off as "low information" and "Confederates" is pretty damned racially insensitive.