2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe 'pledged' delegates are in fact allowed to change their minds, and change their votes...
If Hillary is indicted, or if it looks like she should be indicted, all it would take is a few dozen vote switches to shift the balance, save the party a major embarrassment, and save it from total disaster in the fall. Out of 4,000 total delegates, it is quite possible this could happen.
And if Hillary's surrogates were to go on the warpath, the delegates can always say in their defense, is that under the Democratic Convention rules, "it was allowed"...
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Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)stinks of entitlement. Very undemocratic but inline how I imagined a Sanders administration would be. FORCE not votes. Scary! I'm so glad Hillary won.
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bvf
(6,604 posts)the incorporation of superdelegates into the process?
Me neither.
Oh, sorry. I meant "Tobelious." My apologies.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Personally I'd support a push to draft just about any dark horse at the convention...
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Response to B Calm (Reply #4)
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)she has no strategy to beating Trump and he's waiting to see if the justice department indicts her. Oh god, we deserve a better candidate than Hillary. I'm sick and tired of defending the Clinton's. I just want them to disappear somewhere in north woods of the state of New York.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Whoever it is. Remember parties, not candidates, get ballot access.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)most likely Biden
democrats will not go down against trump with Joe....sanders? Its a win for trump as sanders is painted for what he is and middle america will not vote for a socialist...pacifist
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)around here more and more
barrow-wight
(744 posts)But now they want the pledged delegates to switch. Unbelievable.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)but given all the panicky, prophylactic, "She's the nominee!" around here, apparently it needs to.
Thanks for a necessary reminder to all the deniers, ignorant and artful alike.