I'm waiting for the M$M to announce that the Democratic Party Convention is cancelled

[99th_Monkey]

Why even have a convention? I mean what's the point, if the fucking media decides and
not the delegates?

[riversedge]

1. Same thing happend with Obama 8 years ago.

[Live and Learn]

21. It is not the same at all. nt

[KingFlorez]

2. I'm waiting for Sanders to burst into the convention and cause a ruckus

[HerbChestnut]

3. It won't be just him. Don't think his supporters will take this sitting down.

We're pissed, and tonight demonstrates why. This race has been a sham from the beginning.

[kayakjohnny]

7. You are so right.

This has been a terrible year for this country.

Not a lick of integrity in the proceedings.

[Skink]

4. To much money at stake

Hotels booked. Uber fares priced in. Some aspiring presidential canidate to give a resounding speech. It's an Olympic event.

[book_worm]

5. This is nothing new--if the person gets the required delegates

they are the nominee. It happens every four years.

[me b zola]

14. Neither candidate can win the nomination until the supers cast their ballots at the convention

But you know that.

[One Black Sheep]

6. It was a stacked deck from the very beginning

These shenanigans by the DNC started way back before Iowa, and then continued the whole way through. The corrupt establishment was determined to nominate Hillary. no matter what the people wanted. Hillary was given 3 aces from the dealer as a starting hand on purpose, and yet, she still almost blew it and lost to Bernie. That is how flawed a nominee she is.

[Hydra]

18. Truth

She had every possible advantage, legal and otherwise. Even being a mediocre candidate she should have finished 95%/5%.

I'm looking forward to the convention. Interesting times.

[TwilightZone]

8. You must be new to politics.

This happens nearly every election cycle. It's the norm; not the exception. Hillary reached the number of delegates because the delegates indicated a preference, not the media.

The convention is there to get people motivated to vote for Democrats, and not just at the top of the ticket. It's a place to showcase Democrats who are relatively new to the scene, like one Barack Obama.

It's not there to serve as a place for people who lost to continue to demonstrate why they lost.

[99th_Monkey]

10. Conventions are where delegates cast votes to decide on the Party's nominee, or should be. nt

[Robbins]

17. why you upset

you right wing corporate neocon clinton supporters getting what you want.many of us bernie supporters will leave DU as it becomes clinton underground and democratic party becomes clinton party.

your candiate anbd husband have attacked us personly and say you don't need us.fine you can have it.

[Barack_America]

9. Ratings, baby. They aren't going to cancel it.

If anything, they'll do what they can to encourage violence.

[99th_Monkey]

12. You may be right.

but hope not-so-much re violence.

[Zynx]

11. The convention has simply reflected the will of the voters for decades

The will of the voters has been clear for some time.

[sufrommich]

13. When was the last time we had a convention without knowing

the presumptive nominee going in?

[99th_Monkey]

15. 1968

A History of Contested Conventions in 150 Seconds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/07/heres-what-happened-at-4-of-the-most-contentious-presidential-conventions-in-history/

[sufrommich]

16. Thank you.nt

[BainsBane]

23. 1968. Is that what you were hoping to recreate?

and usher in decades of GOP presidents as a result?

There is not going to be a contested convention. We have a candidate who has the required number of delegates to win. We also have a group of people who have decided the votes of the majority don't matter and that they should be able to impose a nominee against the will of the electorate. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how certain Bernie that his desire for power matters more than elections or that his supporters believe themselves superior to everyone else. The winner is the person who won the most votes and the most delegates, and Bernie supporters are just going to have to deal with the fact that the Democratic party is not willing to disenfranchise the majority to assuage them.

Next time you want a candidate to win, find someone actually willing to put in the work to organize get-out-the-vote efforts and then work like hell to get them elected.

[99th_Monkey]

24. "required number of delegates to win." <- is determined BY votes AT Philly's Dem Convention

Not by the M$M at their whim.

This is nothing new. Th M$M has been pushing Hillary on the electorate since day-one. This
is just the (they hope) .... the final straw, where the Sanders campaign (according to Hillarian
"logic&quot totally "Implodes" into Oblivion .. hopefully never to be heard from again.

No fucking way. Wishful thinking^ It ain't gonna happen.

Believe it or not, Sandernistas are actual human beings, authentic & aware humans in search
of a political home, and on-fucking-fire for an actual Revolution, preferably in a non-violent
manner.

It is what it is.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~John F. Kennedy

[Demsrule86]

19. There is a presumtive nominee

way before any convention.

[BainsBane]

22. However have you all survived every other presidential election

In your lives? This is ridiculous. Bernie lost. Deal with it. He stayed in longer than anyone who has trailed by such a wide margin. It's been obvious since March 15 that he wouldn't win. The entire nation isn't responsible for indulging the feelings of people who can't deal with the fact millions more voters have cast ballots for Clinton.

Most nominations have been decided far earlier. Did you whine about cancelling conventions then? Get over it already.