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murielm99

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13. If we don't have super delegates,

Reply to Vinca (Reply #12)

Mon Jul 3, 2017, 03:03 PM

Jul 2017

we end up with candidates like McGovern, who get beaten in a landslide. We need our party leaders to be involved. We need closed primaries, and an end to caucuses. Anything else is an invitation to weaken our party from within.

The repiggies wish they had super delegates. They would not have been stuck with 45 as their nominee if they had had them. And don't kid yourself: he will destroy their party.

I find it naive in the extreme to think that we should do away with super delegates. These are people who have earned their leadership roles. And, as I have stated in another post, I find the source of this story extremely dubious.

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Well said and exactly to the point! rainy Jul 2017 #30

Yet I am told here daily -- Hell Hath No Fury Jul 2017 #8

Can you explain what the "corporatization of the Democratic Party" because I do not know pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #10

This is a rhetorical expression from the far left, murielm99 Jul 2017 #11

The main reason I rarely post. Scruffy1 Jul 2017 #19

Thank you for correcting that bit of historical misinformation! markpkessinger Jul 2017 #25

Me neither! rainy Jul 2017 #31

The Intercept? Seriously? murielm99 Jul 2017 #9

Posts like the OP should be automatically deleted when using the INtercept IMO joeybee12 Jul 2017 #27

And that is why I am opposed to "superdelegates." Vinca Jul 2017 #12

If we don't have super delegates, murielm99 Jul 2017 #13

The whole idea of superdelegates is undemocratic. In the last election, for example, there were Vinca Jul 2017 #16

If you want to refight the primary, murielm99 Jul 2017 #18

I don't care about the last primary. I'm concerned about the next primary. Vinca Jul 2017 #28

The voters chose our candidate NYResister Jul 2017 #23

Agree in general but think caucuses should be eliminated as undemocratic delisen Jul 2017 #32

Isn't the Intercept the work of Glenn Greenwald who has hated Democrats for years? George II Jul 2017 #14

Yes. That's his. murielm99 Jul 2017 #17

Apparently no true Democrat can disagree. Igel Jul 2017 #15

Not gonna give billionaire looneytarian Omidyar the click. OilemFirchen Jul 2017 #20

You obviously agree with Gephardt kacekwl Jul 2017 #29

I'm not laughing it off. OilemFirchen Jul 2017 #33

this is how Democrats could continue to lose yurbud Jul 2017 #21

Gephardt like his lobbyist $$$ me thinks benld74 Jul 2017 #22

Unrecced for source nt joeybee12 Jul 2017 #26