Democrats, Not Republicans, May Be On Verge Of Unraveling

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Contentious supporters of the two rivals for the Democratic nomination turned the selection of Nevada’s national delegates this weekend into a virtual battlefield, with the chairman gaveling the proceeding to a peremptory close and fleeing the stage while armed guards cleared the meeting venue.

The spectacle of Democratic Party officials railroading through a ruling favorable to Hillary Clinton while denying certification to some 58 Bernie Sanders delegates to the state convention comes on top of charges that caucuses and primary votes around the country have been manipulated to beef up Clinton’s much-touted lead in national delegates.

Democrats have reason to worry that similar chaos could overtake a contested national convention in July as the strong-arm tactics of party officials from Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on down provide little incentive for Sanders or his supporters to go quietly into the night.

In fact, as the federal investigation of Clinton’s use of a private server for official emails continues to loom over her campaign, Democrats are risking a perfect storm combining the chaos of their 1968 convention in Chicago and the creeping disclosure that overtook Richard Nixon’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President.

Nixon won re-election in 1972 in a landslide even though a relatively harmless-seeming dirty trick — the break-in into DNC offices in the Watergate complex — was the subject of investigative reporting by the Washington Post and other news media.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/democrats-not-republicans-may-be-on-verge-of-unraveling-2016-05-17

[Xyzse]

1. I was just reading this, then went on to the reference over Woodward and Bernstein.

[msongs]

2. not gonna happen. most bernie fans in the real world are perfectly ok with hillary if that's their

final choice

[JRLeft]

5. It won't take much disaffected Sanders supporters plus voter ID could spell trouble.

[Dem2]

3. Thanks Bernie Fans!

[Depaysement]

7. We didn't set up the server

You folks did that all by yourselves.

[Dem2]

11. Thanks mr. Strawman

Can somebody please make at least an attempt at making arguments that aren't logical fallacies?

[Depaysement]

13. Because "thanks Bernie fans!" is such a logical argument

Duh.

[Dem2]

15. I'm laying blame for the situation the Democrats are in.

I'm not wrong either.

[Depaysement]

16. Actually you are wrong

Hillary is a poor candidate. With the weight of the entire dem and Corp establishment behind her she is barely winning. She has no one to blame but her imperial self.

[JRLeft]

4. The Democrats like corruption, so backing a corrupt candidate and blowing

an election we should win easily wouldn't surprise me at all.

[StarTrombone]

6. The GOP may have gone through it's unraveling last year

And are now reconstituting in time for their convention and the general

The Democrats seem to be going in the opposite direction

Tell ya the truth I'm flashing back to McCarthy McGovern Humphrey LBJ and the summer of '68

And it's not just the old drugs and Ripple

Could be the blood pressure cholesterol and gout medication though I suppose

[MisterP]

8. the poll shows the party's doing everything it can to cut its own throat

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-election-trump-vs-clinton

[seabeyond]

9. Which was Sanders intent from day one. Do to the Dem party what the baggers did to the Repugs.

What a man.

[B Calm]

10. All thanks to the DNC cramming a shitty conservative candidate down our throats!

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. There has beena theme, starting abroad

as to how weak she is as a candidate, But now we have seen the slow motion crack take a big leap forwards. I keep mentioning 1824 for a reason. It will be bumpy.

[Arugula Latte]

14. It's not surprising. We're supposed to be the party of liberal ideas,

and here we are with a corrupt, lying DINO being shoved down our throats by any means necessary, and with blatant cheating going on to give said horrible candidate her coronation, democracy be damned.