#Trump shouldnt be running FUCK TRUMP

[winterstormantlers]

[anotherpapercut]

it's not really super surprising to me that Biden is so willing to back a genocide, what IS surprising is that he's hemorrhaging support 1 year out from an election and STILL hasn't caved to the pressure despite being generally spineless

[telepathicapathy]

It is so frustrating as someone who thinks biden should retire to hear everyone talk about his fucking stutter. He's fine. That's what stutters sound like. He sounds like my dad did his whole life. It's literally exactly how I would expect him to sound

[rjalker]

@crapscicle hope it's okay to give your comment its own post so people can see it without having to put up with the genocide apologism on that post.

July 1 2024:

If two people funded by the same people to do the same goddamn things are running against each other, and America is already a fascist shithole, maybe, just maybe, you shouldnt be encouraging others to vote for genocide. Just becuase Trump is more obvious about loving murder and death and suffering doesnt fucking mean Biden is any fucking better. Remember that Biden is the one who said Covid was over. I'm Not saying to vote for Trump under any circumstances, but I dont know how someone can live with themselves saying they know better than the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians begging us to not vote for the spearheader of their genocide. Its arrogant and quite frankly, racist. Those are often the fucking last wishes of folks dying because of you last “vote blue no matter who because the other option is worse” decision. When will yall understand that if every election year is "vote blue because its the lesser evil!!!” then Democrats have no fucking reason to not become more and more fucking evil because its what is profitable. Yall quite frankly disgust me. Maybe actually go listen to folks in the global south, in fucking Palestine before you think you know best.

[dazai-fan-page]

i am trying so hard to make adults understand that while they remember the republican party being respectable, i was born in 2007. i dont remember obamas reelection where the other guy was behaving like an adult or whatever he did i was four. i have literally no memory of a time when republicans didn't equal trump.

they say that the parties didnt use to be like this but please please please understand that "like this" has been my whole life. i was having friendship ending political arguments in third grade bc trump was elected. tbh i havent really shut up about politics since but thats not the point.

the point is i am very very tired of older adults seeming to think that the republican party has only been this fucking weird for a few years. and maybe to them it feels that way, but when i say "i know that fixing the two part system rn isnt possible but i think a good first step is fixing the republican party so the democrats have to actually do shit instead of maintaining the status quo" i dont want to hear about how this isnt a real problem bc theyve only been like this for a little while.

it hasnt been a little while. its been my whole life. it is a real problem. we shouldnt have people like that running a country.

[dittolicous]

it literally is so fucking enraging that trump still has even the slightest possibility to run for pres after EVERY FUCKING THING hes been accussed and PROVEN that he did, from rape to tax fraud to STEALING FEDERAL FUCKING DOCUMENTS AQUIRED DURING HIS GOD AWFUL PRESIDENCY. it shouldnt even be a question, yet here we fucking are, because bigots only care about those things when when it gets them what they want

[themmatennant]

That octogenarian shouldve left AGES ago! now all other democratic candidates have been left in the dust. this is stupid, no one ever had a chance bcs it would always be biden v trump if biden was running. and biden pulls out right when it gets shown that his ineptitude is too great for this poition? he cares more about bad press than he ever did about his job, because if he did, he would have tried to convice congress not to overturn roevwade. people have been begging for him to leave the race! i get that hes too old to hear without those infomercial hearing aids (im not making fun of HoH ppl yall are awesome, just joseph robinette bidens age) but he could at least reach far enough in his barely conscious brain to remember put them so as to listen to the american ppl for once! AND AT THE RIGHT TIME. i get that the vote is way in november but if he had pulled out earlier, than there would be chances for real more valid candidates to run, not ones THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT JUST LIKE CHOSE INSTEAD OF LETTING US VOTE ON THE CANDIDATE AGAIN?? So Ill say one more thing, our new dem candidate Kamala better do us right. For the first time in like twelve years, she should give rights BACK. be part of a new system that doesnt take them away. Republicans are coming after gay marriage now, abortion is illegal or made so restricted and weirdly ruled that its practically not a thing in too many states.

I know you shouldnt put faith in politicians so I don't. But she can keep corrupt and cruel lawmakers from entering/staying in office causing the persecution towards children of the trans community, and help stop racially and religiously motivated hate crimes and extreme police brutality and corruption. I know it cant be all solved in four years, but she can fucking try to fix it. And we as america need to finally side on the Israel Palestine conflict, because kamala herself has spoken against Israel's murder of innocent civilians. she has shown that she sides with Palestine. OBVIOUSLY ITS NOT IN AN ANTISEMITIC WAY! Acknowledging cruelty, regardless of the race or historical inhumanity against the current offender, should know no backlash

[ohdarlings]

donald trump get out me country 

[taramaclaywasaterf]

I should be getting blackout drunk with my friends on some random rooftop in Philly right now. At midnight I should be running around banging pots and pans in the streets with complete strangers. I should be kissing a pretty girl and losing my voice from singing on the top of my lungs. I shouldnt be sitting at home alone getting drunk by myself off goddamn beer and getting ready to go to bed at fucking 10pm like a middle aged father of 2 who only sees his kids on weekends. I fucking hate Trump and I fucking hate Mitch McConnell an I fucking hate every single republican who politicized this stupid goddamnl virus and didn’t take it seriously and fucking killed 300,000 people for no reason otter than their own greed. And yes yeah sure it’s fucking selfish of me to be so angry just because one of my favorite nights of the year is taken from me meanwhile people are still dying and going hungry and losing their homes but you know what, it’s my fucking blog and I’ll rant about whatever selfish bullshir I want to. I haven’t left my goddamn house since March and I’m tired and I’m fuvking angry and I need this shit to end but it won’t because too many people in this country are evil pieces of shit, and I’m so done. I’m fucking d o n e, and I’ll never forgive Trump or his stupid fuckign cult for this. My goddamn great grandchildren will be sick of hearing me shittalk him. I‘ll be dead an my body will be nothing but scattered bones in the rubble yet my ghost will remain on this plane screaming into the void about how much I fucking despise him and this stupid country.

[awilddreamermain]

I need to get a few things off my chest and will most likely delete this later.

I live in a low income apartment complex with my mother who can't work and had been denied Social Security almost 4 times now because the state believes that there is something out there that she can do. Honestly I'm starting to agree with them. Right now I'm the only one working, well was working until I had to quite my last job because we have issues with our vehicle and it won't last long, at this point we're waiting fir it to die completely and we'll have no way of getting around.

My mom get's general assistance from Cherokee Nation and it's $135 a month, and I have no money at all and struggling to find a job in my town. Our rent is $395, our electric runs arouns $40 and gas is around $30. We were without Foodstamps for two weeks and had to eat peas out of a can and ramen the entire time. We have good now but I never want to go that long without anything again.

This is all too much for me. I'm the "only one" who can work, I have to pay bills and rent and when I ask her to help me pay for /something/ she bitches about it. Literally all she does around the house is the dishes and it frustrates me so much because all she does is lie in bed, sleeping or on her fucking phone. She doesn't even take the dog outside and will wait to tell me to do it. I love my mom, I do, but I shouldnt have to fucking take care of her at 20 fucking years old. I should be on my own, in collegebor something, not this.

I have no friends where I live. I don't go out because I hsve no wjere to go and I'm so fucking lonely all the time and it's becoming suffocating having her here. The only reason why she lives with ME (The apartment is in my name so it's mine) is because she doesn't have any income and I need someone to take me places until I can actually get my license. Yes, I know I'm 20 and should already have it, judge me if you want I don't give a shit anymore. I already get enough shit from the family I have down here.

Speaking of family, my family is all republican while I'm Independent. I don't support Trump, I don't like Trump, I don't agree with the shit he says or does and the people who follow him are basicqlly a fucking cult, my family included excelt me. They're racist, homophobic, back stabbing pieces of shit and if I had a choice I'd leave them all behind, but the thing is my Aunt and Uncle are always there for us despite our fights and beliefs. It fucking sucks but I both love and hste them because we're family. My life is shit at this point and it feels like nothing is going to change.

My dog has a double ear infection that I can't take him to the vet fir because I can't afgord it. He's had them before and had beaten them with me cleaning it on the regular but this time it isn't enough and I don't have the right supplies to keep them clean. It's just so frustrating. My grandoa in Colorado said he'd help me pay for it but I can't accept his money because every time I do I feel so guilty. I feel so weak, like I can't do anything right.

This fucking sucks man, and I'm so tired of it. It doesn't help that I have BPD2 and a mixed Anxiety and Depressive disorder too, most days it feels like I'm drowning snd helpless and I can't fucking stand it. I'm just so tired. I sleep all the time now, I'm losing interest in something I love to do and I don't kniw what to do about it.

Sorry for the random rant.

[crapscicle]

if two people funded by the same people to do the same goddamn things are running against each other, AND AMERICA IS ALREADY A FASCIST SHITHOLE, maybe, just maybe, you shouldnt be encouraging others to vote for genocide. just becuase trump is more obvious about loving murder and death and suffering doesnt fucking mean biden is any fucking better. remember that biden is the one who said covid was over. im NOT saying ti vote for trump UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, but i dont know how someone can live with themselves saying they know better than the hundreds of thousands of palestinians begging us to not vote for the spearheader of their genocide. its arrogant and quite frankly, racist. those are often the fucking last wishes of folks dying because of you last “vote blue no matter who because the other option is worse” decision. when will yall understand that if every election year is vote blue because its the lesser evil!!!” then democrats have no fucking reason to not become more and more fucking evil because its what is profitable. yall quite frankly disgust me. maybe actually go listen to folks in the global south, in fucking PALESTINE before you think you know best.

when i see people express sentiments like this, my thought is pretty much “who exactly are you trying to prove a point to?” the democrats? if trump gets elected, they’re going to be completely sidelined if not worse and will be entirely focused on trying to get back in power and i can tell you they will NOT be moving further left. netanyahu? it’s a BETTER outcome for him if trump wins since trump is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-israel than biden has ever been. the people in gaza? they need a ceasefire which has been rejected by both the israel and the hamas sides multiple times and a trump win WILL NOT make that a stronger possibility.

[stereofeathers]

You all probably know about this already but trump sure did make a 35 minute rant ""SPEECH"" outside in 89° (farenheit) where he acted like an affronted child because he wanted to BUY GREENLAND and the prime minister was like "what the fuck, no, this isn't fucking colonialism a la 1900s, you dont just BUY chunks of (currently in use) land to add to your country"

The quotes from that article are killing me hjjsdsdds,,

Trump harshly criticized Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for calling his interest in buying Greenland "absurd," which caused Trump to cancel his scheduled visit to the country.

"I thought the prime minister's statement that it was an absurd idea was nasty, I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do was say, 'no, we wouldn't be interested.' I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me 'no.'"

Right, but when someone calls him (or really any republican) on being an asshole, they start talking about how they "shouldnt have to apologize for stating the facts" and how "the truth hurts" and its "not their job to sugarcoat it"

"She shouldn't treat the United States that way."

Its incredible. He actually sounds like one of those guys in high school who thinks sexual harassment is a personality trait and when you finally tell him to fuck off he runs crying to all of his friends about how you're such a bitch because he was just playing around and he would have stopped if you'd just asked nicely

[moondonky]

Trap sahn

Bottom to the top, what r u afraid of, flip your tricks right in front of them, and right over them, pishing off the privlage, who the fuk is this, fuk class system, systemic racism, PC correctness, fuk the obedience, blind to social intimidation, let's do sumthing different, this world is fake af.. trench foot lol dudes dancing like girls.. wha dafuk?

Why does the USA need to be #1???.. that is a question, what would the world be like I'f America didn't become America?? Really think about it, that's like what if neo, from the movie the matrix, took both pills, or neither, how would the movie play out,, what would have happened, knowing everything u learned from watching him take the red.. or where the pills just placebos.. lol do u think if Hillary was elected, that she would be doing everything trump is doing, that if u pay attention trump is editing, what Obama was doing, that the bushes started, creating loopholes in your divided thinking, to get away with things they as a whole shouldnt be doing, profiting.. selling there postions like hookers, on the buttons to yes and no decisions,, by lobbyists

When I run for president, of the United states, and I am, 2024 I believe, hopefully, I did my research I can, a creative protest project.. a social experiment.. I'll call my platform the trap party, symbol of a purple donkey with an elephant dick, fuck it,, my slogan, "DONT VOTE",dont vote for me, dont vote for anyone, declare an illegitimate election, use the peoples powers of our laws and constitution, what no lawyer or politician would ever tell you,,, put the government and politicians under martial law, enforced by our military, that the United states citizens pay for.. and fix the problems,, at least the little ones that we all know we can agree on, that's always attached to bullshit boulders preventing them to reach the surface....that is what I would tell everyone, that ur vote at this moment and for a few decades, wasnt for a president, or political party, but a vote for a government to continue what it is doing,, the direction it is taking us the people the masses, why america is the free world, technically the government is a business system of management, and we the people pay them with taxes, we fund there operation, we hire them to do what we tell them, and pay them nice to make our lives more convenient,, hopefully get a chance on live television, donations would go towards setting up a debt collection business, that buys debt in bulk at cheap rates, but then voids it, like John Oliver did, that will be my campaign.. that's it, be nice, buy my book or sum shit, thats the only reason why theres 100s of people running for president anyways, quit the race well before anyone hits the ballots.. I don't like playing and dressing up for golf, I'd tell the driver to sit in the back, cuz I wanna drive that beast Cadillac, at the least call shotgun, cursing on TV, laughing at people I think are doing silly shit, as I do silly shit, I would get a tattoo on my face every year, I would challenge Putin to a boxing match, I would tag sum bleeding heart shit on the whitehouse, so I'd make a terrible president, prolly would get shot...

Trap sahn

[patriotsnet]

Should Republicans Vote In Democratic Primary

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Should Republicans Vote In Democratic Primary

Official Disinvites For Us Indys

Republican Caller: Should I Vote in the Democratic Primary to Undermine Bernie?

Because we’re disrupting the coronation. It has to be us, right? It can’t be that the candidate they are putting a thumb on the scale for is the problem…

The share of independents in the public, which long ago surpassed the percentages of either Democrats or Republicans, continues to increase. Based on 2014 data, 39% identify as independents, 32% as Democrats and 23% as Republicans. This is the highest percentage of independents in more than 75 years of public opinion polling.I was a registered democrat for over 40 years and left the party last Jan, changed back to caucus for Bernie here in CO and left the democratic party the day after.

Is It Common For Democrats To Participate In The Republican Primary And Vice Versa

In short, no. According to Elizabeth Simas, a political science professor at the University of Houston who spoke about this with Texas Standard, cases of strategic voting dont happen much in primary elections. Certainly, there are people who do it but we just dont see it happening as much as theres potentially this fear for it to happen, Simas said.

In areas dominated by one party, especially rural areas, voters might cross party lines in the primary to have more of a say in their local races.

In my county, all the local races are Republican. Judges, sheriff, district attorney, Martha Mims, a Democratic voter who lives Williamson County, wrote in The Texas Tribunes Facebook group, This is Your Texas. If I want to have a say in local government, I have to vote in the Republican primary.

Voters like Mims can do that, thanks to Texas open primary. Do you have more questions about voting in Texas? Submit them to our Texplainer series.

Disclosure: The University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

How Do You Choose

When you show up to your polling location, youll decide whether you want a Democratic or Republican primary ballot.

But after choosing a side in the primary, you have to stay in that lane through the runoff. You cant vote Republican in the primary election and then participate in a runoff election between top Democratic candidates.

That said, voting in a primary does not commit you to vote for a particular candidate in the general election. You can vote for either partys candidate in the November election.

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Sorry Kid It Just Doesn’t Work That Way

This is not a high school glee club. If an independent wants to change their registration every four years for six months in order to vote in the Democratic or Republican party in NY, they can. You do not get to do one fucking thing to stop it. It has been happening for some time, and it will happen more and more as time marches on. I am a leftist. I have every god damned right to have a voice in who the leftist candidate in the GE is going to be. Tough shit if you and other loyalists don’t like it. And I have every right to say, well, that candidate that won does not represent me so I will vote for someone else even if that is a third party. Isn’t democracy a grand thing? This attitude is going to ensure future losses not wins. 47%. That is the number. That is the math!

Invite Independents Into The Process

The Democratic Party ought to open the nominating process to voters registered as independents, allowing them to sign up as Democrats on primary day. Sixteen states have created open primaries through laws or referendums, according to the nonprofit group Open Primaries, although the parties have the authority to do so unilaterally. Yet Democrats have done so in only six states, the group notes.

James Zogby is president of the Arab American Institute and a member of the Democratic National Committees executive committee. Bernie Sanders appointed him to the partys primary reform commission.

Reaching out to such voters currently alienated by the two major parties would increase the chances that the Democratic nominee can win in November. At the same time, the party needs to work to strengthen its bonds with its existing members.

The sad but simple truth is that being a Democrat no longer means very much to many Americans. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 27 percent of voters identify as Democrats, and 30 percent say they are Republicans. At the same time, 42 percent call themselves independents, including half of millennial voters . This share of American voters who dont identify with any party has held constant for well over a decade.

The Democratic Party needs to give voters, including independents, a reason to become engaged in party-building. Since we need the votes of independents in the fall, shouldnt we give them a voice in the spring?

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Well No That Defeats The Purpose Of Primaries

But I do think that they should be open. It was different when the majority of the populace was divided between the two parties, but now that Independents make up the largest voting group, it seems wrong to exclude them unless there is same day voter registration at polling sites. Too many states make it as hard as possible to vote now that the voting rights act was gutted, so we need to make changes to make the process as inclusive as possible. The more hurdles that people have to jump through to vote, the more discouraged and cynical people will be. That serves the interests of the PTB, but it doesn’t serve the country’s interests. We need and informed, engaged citizenry or our democracy-what’s left of it-will lose all legitimacy. That, at least, is my view now.

The Present Process Is Prone To Chaos And Capture

We need not recount here the devastating effectiveness with which Donald Trumps insurgent candidacy steamrolled the traditional gatekeepers, commandeered media attention, and mobilized what some of his backers called his troll army. However, the weakening of gatekeeping was not limited to one candidate or one party. The Democratic Party establishment found itself barely able to contain the insurgency of Sanders, even though he was not a Democrat and he did not win a majority of self-identified Democrats except in his home state of Vermont and neighboring New Hampshire.

Neither candidate changed the system all by himself. Rather, both saw and exploited the invisible primarys fragility. Candidates could bypass traditional moneymen by reaping donations online, tapping deep-pocketed tycoons, or funding themselves. They could bypass traditional media by using social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and they could hijack traditional media by behaving outrageously. They could treat their lack of endorsements as a mark of authenticity.

he nomination process makes unrealistic demands on voters, not because voters are lazy or stupidtheyre notbut because they are human.

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With No Republican Primary Gop Supporters Are Free To Vote For ‘chaos’

With no Republican presidential primary this year, Republicans are free to make what political scientists call negative strategic votes for Democrats without having to sacrifice the chance to vote for their own party.

Voters can cast ballots in only one primary per election, but they can vote however they choose in general elections despite the primary they choose.

A large crowd of candidates means smaller vote counts can swing elections and being early in the national process could also be expected to add to a particularly strong chances for crossover voting, said D. Sunshine Hillygus, a Duke University political science professor who has studied crossover and negative strategic voting.

She said the crossover votes can be negatively strategic, “trolling or throwing a wrench in it,” or they can be positively strategic as a backstop.

The only cost for Republicans who are so inclined to instigate “chaos?” They’ll get on a Democratic mailing list.

And, indeed, crossover votes could be a factor in the primary, said David Woodard, a retired Clemson University professor who has consulted with Republicans for decades.

Republicans who otherwise wouldn’t want to interrupt their Republican voting record could actually brag about crossing over this year, Woodard said. Fueled by impeachment and memories of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republicans will be highly motivated this year, Woodard said.

Get Rid Of Superdelegates Completely

Will President Trump encourage Ohio Republicans to vote in the Democratic Primary

Superdelegates had some of their power stripped from them after the contentious 2016 Democratic primary contest. Now its time to finish the job: They ought to be neutered entirely.

Selina Vickers was a delegate for Sen. Bernie Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She is a candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, in District 32.

Superdelegates debuted at the 1984 Democratic convention, after the party reworked its rules to respond to President Jimmy Carters calamitous defeat in 1980. The idea was that these special delegates typically politicians and senior party officials wouldnt be bound by the decisions of state primary voters and caucusers: They could throw their weight behind whichever candidate they thought would perform best in the general election. This year, there are 771 superdelegate votes and 3,979 pledged delegates . The problem is that there can be a chasm between the judgments of party insiders and the grass roots about which candidates are most electable.

A certain number of elected party leaders could retain the title of automatic delegates, but they should not have a free or wild card vote at any stage. Instead, they should pledge to a candidate before their states primary or caucuses. If their candidates dont earn votes at the state level, they wouldnt have a say so they couldnt interfere in the democratic selection of a nominee.

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What Is A Party Primary Election

The Democratic and Republican Parties are required to use primary elections to choose their candidates for the general election. Although it is up to the parties to decide who may vote in their primaries, generally only registered voters affiliated with the Democratic or Republican Parties may vote in that party’s primary election.

Democrats Plan To Keep Their Primary Strategy

Morgan Carroll, chairwoman of the Colorado Democratic Party and a former state Senate president, said a proposal to forgo primaries would never receive serious consideration among state Democrats.

She called the idea ridiculous and undemocratic. 

If we had a candidate that recommended it, I think theyd be driven out of town, Morgan Carroll said. 

She sees the push as part of a larger pattern by Trump and his loyalists to basically move in an authoritarian direction, take away choices from voters, make it harder to vote, make it hard for the people to decide, and make it easier for them to install whoever they want in whatever position they want.

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If the Republican proposal passes, she said its hard to know whether more unaffiliated voters would participate in 2022 Democratic primaries because they would be the only primary left they could vote in. 

She thinks the move would backfire for Republicans as theyve struggled to win elections in Colorado in recent years. If I were a rank-and-file Republican person, Id be furious.

Colorado Sun staff writer Jesse Paul contributed to this report.

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Enhance The Role Of Superdelegates

We recommend doing the opposite of what the DNC chose to do with its Unity Reform Commission. Instead of diminishing the role of superdelegates by preventing them from voting on the first ballot or reducing their numbers, the party should augment their influence.

The purpose of superdelegates has never been to overturn the choice of voters in primaries. True, in principle they might act as a last barrier to a manifestly unacceptable candidate, like George Wallace or Henry Fordbut even that is unlikely, if a candidate has won a decisive victory in the primaries. Rather, their real importance is their indirect influence on the upstream end of the process. Their convention votes incentivize candidates to reach out to them in the early stages of campaigns. A candidate who seeks superdelegates support will need to listen to them and promise to work with them. Also, superdelegates commitments early in the process help establish party support and momentum for favored candidates. Superdelegates do not decide the nomination, but they do influence the nominees, the media, and the votersand that is exactly as it should be.

We recommend doing the opposite of what the DNC chose to do with its Unity Reform Commission. Instead of diminishing the role of superdelegates , the party should augment their influence.

Its Primary Day In Pennsylvania Heres What Voters Need To Know

By

Laura Benshoff

May 18, 2021

Voters, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus, stand at a distance from each other as they wait in line to casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 2, 2020.

Its Primary Day in Pennsylvania.

Voters around the commonwealth will pick representatives from their parties to put on the ballot for the November general election. In Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans seven to one, the primary can be more determinative than the general election.

Judicial races, school board seats, and the Philadelphia District Attorneys office are all in the running.

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Over 150 Companies Sign Letter Supporting John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

One reason Republicans in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts may have focused their initiatives solely on voter ID laws, rather than including other election changes, is because public polling has shown those requirements have broad backing by members of both parties. A recent Monmouth University poll found that 80 percent of Americans back requiring voters to show photo ID in order to vote.

“The struggle with ballot initiatives are always getting the actual initiative on the ballot to start with,” said Garrett Bess, vice president of Heritage Action for America, a conservative advocacy group. “But if the question is put to the voters, then I think it’s an almost certainty to pass.”

Still, the effort marks a new chapter in the broader national Republican effort to advance new limits on elections following former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lies about last fall’s vote. A number of leading backers of the ballot initiatives have boosted Trump’s false claims of fraud.

Voter fraud in U.S. elections is exceedingly rare. Although there is no evidence of widespread malfeasance in last fall’s election, more than a dozen states have so far enacted changes this year.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states already ask voters to provide some form of ID, with most of them allowing voters without ID to cast ballots if they sign a form under oath.

Using An Analogy Such As A Private Club Or A Sports Team Is Neither Naive Nor Dishonest

If you are an Independent or non-aligned voter, you simply change your voter registration to Democratic if you want to vote for a Democrat in a Primary, or to Republican if you want to vote for Republican in a primary. There is absolutely no restriction on doing this, other than the need to do it a certain number of days before the primary. Whether or not the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are de-facto institutionalized political parties, sports teams, or clubs does not change this. If you want to vote in a closed primary, you simply change to the party that you want to be in within the allotted time before the primary. One can always change back to Independent or non-aligned afterward if one chooses. Why do you think this is “s***ting” on people? Candidate preference:Biden

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Professional Vetting Provides Quality Control

Our case so far has dwelt on the shortcomings of the plebiscitary nominating process. So, we ought to re-emphasize: We are not saying that primary elections bring nothing to the table. To the contrary, they surface all kinds of important information about candidates and voters. What we do believe is that two filters are better than one. Electoral and professional perspectives check each others excesses and balance each others viewpoints; and, more than that, they complement and improve each other. Each provides the other with vital information which otherwise might be missed. Perhaps most important, professional input aids in winnowing the field to those who will likely govern competently.

wo filters are better than one. Electoral and professional perspectives check each others excesses and balance each others viewpoints

Insiders look for whether candidates are able to work with others, and whether they have sound judgment, adaptability, a nuanced way of dealing with problems, and influential relationships inside and outside government. Insiders also observe candidates character, and they can detect personal flaws that might affect sound decision-making. Insiders know from experience the attributes and talents necessary for effective governing. Voters are not privy to that kind of detailed, hands-on knowledge.

Vetting not only evaluates politicians; it also helps equip them to govern.

Virginia Voter Guide: The 2021 Primaries

Will President Trump encourage Ohio Republicans to cross-over to vote in Democratic primary?

The 2021 election season in Virginia has begun.

The 2021 Virginia primary election, which will determine the candidates who will face off in the fall, will be held Tuesday. Voters are weighing in on the contest for the Democratic nomination for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general among other races. Most of the Republican races were already decided in a series of remote conventions May 8, although there will be a few GOP races on the ballot.

Most of the changes to voting in Virginia adopted last year due to the pandemic are still in place, but there are a few differences. Heres what you need to know.

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Trump Has Zero Desire To Be Speaker Of House Spokesman Says

Oregon progressive Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesotas Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar, introduced the For the People Act, along with majority leader Chuck Schumer, in the Senate in March.

Jeff Merkley

. is absolutely right. This bill is critical for our country. We must fight with everything we’ve got to pass the For the People Act and save our democracy.

Today they probably know it is going to be parked in a cul-de-sac and the Republicans, aided by Democrat Joe Manchin, are going to throw away the keys.

Heres what Merkley tweeted yesterday.

Jeff Merkley

Make no mistake: Our democracy is in crisis. Republican lawmakers are trying to restrict Americans’ right to vote all across the country. Tomorrow we have a chance to right these wrongs by passing the For the People Act. We must get it done!

And heres Klobuchar earlier today reminding everyone that Barack Obama has spoken out to support a compromise version of the bill put forward by Manchin .

Amy Klobuchar

Voters Need Help: How Party Insiders Can Make Presidential Primaries Safer Fairer And More Democratic

Summary

Presidential-nominating contests in both major political parties are at risk of producing nominees who aren’t competent to govern and/or don’t represent a majority of the partys voters. Raymond La Raja and Jonathan Rauch argue this is a result of the declining role of party insiders in the nomination process and call for the reversal of that trend. Primaries function best, they claim, when voters and party professionals work in partnership.

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Twelve years ago, Rush Limbaugh, who had not yet received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, urged the listeners of his enormously popular and very conservative talk-radio show to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. In the patchwork process that is employed to nominate Presidential candidates, more than a dozen states have open primaries, which allow registered voters to participate in either contest. Limbaugh wanted Clintons close but seemingly losing fight with Barack Obama to go on for as long as possible, on the theory that a protracted battle would weaken the eventual nominee. He called the plan Operation Chaos. Limbaugh didnt think that Clinton was necessarily the weaker of the two candidatesin fact, he ultimately concluded that Obama was; by May, 2008, he was pushing his fans to vote for the senator from Illinois. Barack Obama has shown he cannot get the votes Democrats need to winblue-collar, working-class people, Limbaugh said. He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that.

Oh You Don’t Want My Vote In Nov

I’m an Indy that votes Dem. My state has closed Repug primaries/caucuses. If I were Right leaning I’d be insulted that I have to change my affiliation to them and back afterward to have a say in who the best candidate to run for GE is.The Dem party is now smaller than the Indies, and will be even smaller in a few months after Hillary’s scorched earth antics. I don’t think you want to disinvite us all at this point.

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From Ohio To Florida Your Cheat Sheet For The Next Crucial Primaries

Five states voting Tuesday could be make-or-break for some presidential candidates. A primer on whos voting and what outcomes are likeliest

Tue 15 Mar 2016 11.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 19.15 GMT

On 15 March, the names of the remaining presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich on the Republican side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats will be on ballot papers in five states and one US territory. Although this Tuesday will be less frantic than Super Tuesday two weeks ago, when 12 states and one territory held primary elections, its just as important. By 16 March, the race for the White House could look very different depending on how Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio vote.

Thats partly because the delegate numbers in those states are so high in total, 367 Republican and 792 Democratic delegates are available on 15 March. That brings us significantly closer to the finish line of having just two presidential candidates: at the moment, 33% of Democratic delegates have been pledged but by the time the polls have closed on 15 March, that number will rise to 50%. For Republicans, pledged delegates will jump from 46% to 61%.

Those percentages just mean that playing catch-up gets harder from here. Clinton is still on track for the Democratic nomination to change that, Sanders needs to pick up at least 326 of the pledged delegates .

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Should Republicans Vote In Democratic Primary

Official Disinvites For Us Indys

Republican Caller: Should I Vote in the Democratic Primary to Undermine Bernie?

Because we’re disrupting the coronation. It has to be us, right? It can’t be that the candidate they are putting a thumb on the scale for is the problem…

The share of independents in the public, which long ago surpassed the percentages of either Democrats or Republicans, continues to increase. Based on 2014 data, 39% identify as independents, 32% as Democrats and 23% as Republicans. This is the highest percentage of independents in more than 75 years of public opinion polling.I was a registered democrat for over 40 years and left the party last Jan, changed back to caucus for Bernie here in CO and left the democratic party the day after.

Is It Common For Democrats To Participate In The Republican Primary And Vice Versa

In short, no. According to Elizabeth Simas, a political science professor at the University of Houston who spoke about this with Texas Standard, cases of strategic voting dont happen much in primary elections. Certainly, there are people who do it but we just dont see it happening as much as theres potentially this fear for it to happen, Simas said.

In areas dominated by one party, especially rural areas, voters might cross party lines in the primary to have more of a say in their local races.

In my county, all the local races are Republican. Judges, sheriff, district attorney, Martha Mims, a Democratic voter who lives Williamson County, wrote in The Texas Tribunes Facebook group, This is Your Texas. If I want to have a say in local government, I have to vote in the Republican primary.

Voters like Mims can do that, thanks to Texas open primary. Do you have more questions about voting in Texas? Submit them to our Texplainer series.

Disclosure: The University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

How Do You Choose

When you show up to your polling location, youll decide whether you want a Democratic or Republican primary ballot.

But after choosing a side in the primary, you have to stay in that lane through the runoff. You cant vote Republican in the primary election and then participate in a runoff election between top Democratic candidates.

That said, voting in a primary does not commit you to vote for a particular candidate in the general election. You can vote for either partys candidate in the November election.

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Sorry Kid It Just Doesn’t Work That Way

This is not a high school glee club. If an independent wants to change their registration every four years for six months in order to vote in the Democratic or Republican party in NY, they can. You do not get to do one fucking thing to stop it. It has been happening for some time, and it will happen more and more as time marches on. I am a leftist. I have every god damned right to have a voice in who the leftist candidate in the GE is going to be. Tough shit if you and other loyalists don’t like it. And I have every right to say, well, that candidate that won does not represent me so I will vote for someone else even if that is a third party. Isn’t democracy a grand thing? This attitude is going to ensure future losses not wins. 47%. That is the number. That is the math!

Invite Independents Into The Process

The Democratic Party ought to open the nominating process to voters registered as independents, allowing them to sign up as Democrats on primary day. Sixteen states have created open primaries through laws or referendums, according to the nonprofit group Open Primaries, although the parties have the authority to do so unilaterally. Yet Democrats have done so in only six states, the group notes.

James Zogby is president of the Arab American Institute and a member of the Democratic National Committees executive committee. Bernie Sanders appointed him to the partys primary reform commission.

Reaching out to such voters currently alienated by the two major parties would increase the chances that the Democratic nominee can win in November. At the same time, the party needs to work to strengthen its bonds with its existing members.

The sad but simple truth is that being a Democrat no longer means very much to many Americans. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 27 percent of voters identify as Democrats, and 30 percent say they are Republicans. At the same time, 42 percent call themselves independents, including half of millennial voters . This share of American voters who dont identify with any party has held constant for well over a decade.

The Democratic Party needs to give voters, including independents, a reason to become engaged in party-building. Since we need the votes of independents in the fall, shouldnt we give them a voice in the spring?

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Well No That Defeats The Purpose Of Primaries

But I do think that they should be open. It was different when the majority of the populace was divided between the two parties, but now that Independents make up the largest voting group, it seems wrong to exclude them unless there is same day voter registration at polling sites. Too many states make it as hard as possible to vote now that the voting rights act was gutted, so we need to make changes to make the process as inclusive as possible. The more hurdles that people have to jump through to vote, the more discouraged and cynical people will be. That serves the interests of the PTB, but it doesn’t serve the country’s interests. We need and informed, engaged citizenry or our democracy-what’s left of it-will lose all legitimacy. That, at least, is my view now.

The Present Process Is Prone To Chaos And Capture

We need not recount here the devastating effectiveness with which Donald Trumps insurgent candidacy steamrolled the traditional gatekeepers, commandeered media attention, and mobilized what some of his backers called his troll army. However, the weakening of gatekeeping was not limited to one candidate or one party. The Democratic Party establishment found itself barely able to contain the insurgency of Sanders, even though he was not a Democrat and he did not win a majority of self-identified Democrats except in his home state of Vermont and neighboring New Hampshire.

Neither candidate changed the system all by himself. Rather, both saw and exploited the invisible primarys fragility. Candidates could bypass traditional moneymen by reaping donations online, tapping deep-pocketed tycoons, or funding themselves. They could bypass traditional media by using social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and they could hijack traditional media by behaving outrageously. They could treat their lack of endorsements as a mark of authenticity.

he nomination process makes unrealistic demands on voters, not because voters are lazy or stupidtheyre notbut because they are human.

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With No Republican Primary Gop Supporters Are Free To Vote For ‘chaos’

With no Republican presidential primary this year, Republicans are free to make what political scientists call negative strategic votes for Democrats without having to sacrifice the chance to vote for their own party.

Voters can cast ballots in only one primary per election, but they can vote however they choose in general elections despite the primary they choose.

A large crowd of candidates means smaller vote counts can swing elections and being early in the national process could also be expected to add to a particularly strong chances for crossover voting, said D. Sunshine Hillygus, a Duke University political science professor who has studied crossover and negative strategic voting.

She said the crossover votes can be negatively strategic, “trolling or throwing a wrench in it,” or they can be positively strategic as a backstop.

The only cost for Republicans who are so inclined to instigate “chaos?” They’ll get on a Democratic mailing list.

And, indeed, crossover votes could be a factor in the primary, said David Woodard, a retired Clemson University professor who has consulted with Republicans for decades.

Republicans who otherwise wouldn’t want to interrupt their Republican voting record could actually brag about crossing over this year, Woodard said. Fueled by impeachment and memories of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republicans will be highly motivated this year, Woodard said.

Get Rid Of Superdelegates Completely

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Superdelegates had some of their power stripped from them after the contentious 2016 Democratic primary contest. Now its time to finish the job: They ought to be neutered entirely.

Selina Vickers was a delegate for Sen. Bernie Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She is a candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, in District 32.

Superdelegates debuted at the 1984 Democratic convention, after the party reworked its rules to respond to President Jimmy Carters calamitous defeat in 1980. The idea was that these special delegates typically politicians and senior party officials wouldnt be bound by the decisions of state primary voters and caucusers: They could throw their weight behind whichever candidate they thought would perform best in the general election. This year, there are 771 superdelegate votes and 3,979 pledged delegates . The problem is that there can be a chasm between the judgments of party insiders and the grass roots about which candidates are most electable.

A certain number of elected party leaders could retain the title of automatic delegates, but they should not have a free or wild card vote at any stage. Instead, they should pledge to a candidate before their states primary or caucuses. If their candidates dont earn votes at the state level, they wouldnt have a say so they couldnt interfere in the democratic selection of a nominee.

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What Is A Party Primary Election

The Democratic and Republican Parties are required to use primary elections to choose their candidates for the general election. Although it is up to the parties to decide who may vote in their primaries, generally only registered voters affiliated with the Democratic or Republican Parties may vote in that party’s primary election.

Democrats Plan To Keep Their Primary Strategy

Morgan Carroll, chairwoman of the Colorado Democratic Party and a former state Senate president, said a proposal to forgo primaries would never receive serious consideration among state Democrats.

She called the idea ridiculous and undemocratic. 

If we had a candidate that recommended it, I think theyd be driven out of town, Morgan Carroll said. 

She sees the push as part of a larger pattern by Trump and his loyalists to basically move in an authoritarian direction, take away choices from voters, make it harder to vote, make it hard for the people to decide, and make it easier for them to install whoever they want in whatever position they want.

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If the Republican proposal passes, she said its hard to know whether more unaffiliated voters would participate in 2022 Democratic primaries because they would be the only primary left they could vote in. 

She thinks the move would backfire for Republicans as theyve struggled to win elections in Colorado in recent years. If I were a rank-and-file Republican person, Id be furious.

Colorado Sun staff writer Jesse Paul contributed to this report.

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Enhance The Role Of Superdelegates

We recommend doing the opposite of what the DNC chose to do with its Unity Reform Commission. Instead of diminishing the role of superdelegates by preventing them from voting on the first ballot or reducing their numbers, the party should augment their influence.

The purpose of superdelegates has never been to overturn the choice of voters in primaries. True, in principle they might act as a last barrier to a manifestly unacceptable candidate, like George Wallace or Henry Fordbut even that is unlikely, if a candidate has won a decisive victory in the primaries. Rather, their real importance is their indirect influence on the upstream end of the process. Their convention votes incentivize candidates to reach out to them in the early stages of campaigns. A candidate who seeks superdelegates support will need to listen to them and promise to work with them. Also, superdelegates commitments early in the process help establish party support and momentum for favored candidates. Superdelegates do not decide the nomination, but they do influence the nominees, the media, and the votersand that is exactly as it should be.

We recommend doing the opposite of what the DNC chose to do with its Unity Reform Commission. Instead of diminishing the role of superdelegates , the party should augment their influence.

Its Primary Day In Pennsylvania Heres What Voters Need To Know

By

Laura Benshoff

May 18, 2021

Voters, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus, stand at a distance from each other as they wait in line to casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 2, 2020.

Its Primary Day in Pennsylvania.

Voters around the commonwealth will pick representatives from their parties to put on the ballot for the November general election. In Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans seven to one, the primary can be more determinative than the general election.

Judicial races, school board seats, and the Philadelphia District Attorneys office are all in the running.

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Over 150 Companies Sign Letter Supporting John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

One reason Republicans in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts may have focused their initiatives solely on voter ID laws, rather than including other election changes, is because public polling has shown those requirements have broad backing by members of both parties. A recent Monmouth University poll found that 80 percent of Americans back requiring voters to show photo ID in order to vote.

“The struggle with ballot initiatives are always getting the actual initiative on the ballot to start with,” said Garrett Bess, vice president of Heritage Action for America, a conservative advocacy group. “But if the question is put to the voters, then I think it’s an almost certainty to pass.”

Still, the effort marks a new chapter in the broader national Republican effort to advance new limits on elections following former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lies about last fall’s vote. A number of leading backers of the ballot initiatives have boosted Trump’s false claims of fraud.

Voter fraud in U.S. elections is exceedingly rare. Although there is no evidence of widespread malfeasance in last fall’s election, more than a dozen states have so far enacted changes this year.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states already ask voters to provide some form of ID, with most of them allowing voters without ID to cast ballots if they sign a form under oath.

Using An Analogy Such As A Private Club Or A Sports Team Is Neither Naive Nor Dishonest

If you are an Independent or non-aligned voter, you simply change your voter registration to Democratic if you want to vote for a Democrat in a Primary, or to Republican if you want to vote for Republican in a primary. There is absolutely no restriction on doing this, other than the need to do it a certain number of days before the primary. Whether or not the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are de-facto institutionalized political parties, sports teams, or clubs does not change this. If you want to vote in a closed primary, you simply change to the party that you want to be in within the allotted time before the primary. One can always change back to Independent or non-aligned afterward if one chooses. Why do you think this is “s***ting” on people? Candidate preference:Biden

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Professional Vetting Provides Quality Control

Our case so far has dwelt on the shortcomings of the plebiscitary nominating process. So, we ought to re-emphasize: We are not saying that primary elections bring nothing to the table. To the contrary, they surface all kinds of important information about candidates and voters. What we do believe is that two filters are better than one. Electoral and professional perspectives check each others excesses and balance each others viewpoints; and, more than that, they complement and improve each other. Each provides the other with vital information which otherwise might be missed. Perhaps most important, professional input aids in winnowing the field to those who will likely govern competently.

wo filters are better than one. Electoral and professional perspectives check each others excesses and balance each others viewpoints

Insiders look for whether candidates are able to work with others, and whether they have sound judgment, adaptability, a nuanced way of dealing with problems, and influential relationships inside and outside government. Insiders also observe candidates character, and they can detect personal flaws that might affect sound decision-making. Insiders know from experience the attributes and talents necessary for effective governing. Voters are not privy to that kind of detailed, hands-on knowledge.

Vetting not only evaluates politicians; it also helps equip them to govern.

Virginia Voter Guide: The 2021 Primaries

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The 2021 election season in Virginia has begun.

The 2021 Virginia primary election, which will determine the candidates who will face off in the fall, will be held Tuesday. Voters are weighing in on the contest for the Democratic nomination for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general among other races. Most of the Republican races were already decided in a series of remote conventions May 8, although there will be a few GOP races on the ballot.

Most of the changes to voting in Virginia adopted last year due to the pandemic are still in place, but there are a few differences. Heres what you need to know.

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Trump Has Zero Desire To Be Speaker Of House Spokesman Says

Oregon progressive Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesotas Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar, introduced the For the People Act, along with majority leader Chuck Schumer, in the Senate in March.

Jeff Merkley

. is absolutely right. This bill is critical for our country. We must fight with everything we’ve got to pass the For the People Act and save our democracy.

Today they probably know it is going to be parked in a cul-de-sac and the Republicans, aided by Democrat Joe Manchin, are going to throw away the keys.

Heres what Merkley tweeted yesterday.

Jeff Merkley

Make no mistake: Our democracy is in crisis. Republican lawmakers are trying to restrict Americans’ right to vote all across the country. Tomorrow we have a chance to right these wrongs by passing the For the People Act. We must get it done!

And heres Klobuchar earlier today reminding everyone that Barack Obama has spoken out to support a compromise version of the bill put forward by Manchin .

Amy Klobuchar

Voters Need Help: How Party Insiders Can Make Presidential Primaries Safer Fairer And More Democratic

Summary

Presidential-nominating contests in both major political parties are at risk of producing nominees who aren’t competent to govern and/or don’t represent a majority of the partys voters. Raymond La Raja and Jonathan Rauch argue this is a result of the declining role of party insiders in the nomination process and call for the reversal of that trend. Primaries function best, they claim, when voters and party professionals work in partnership.

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Twelve years ago, Rush Limbaugh, who had not yet received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, urged the listeners of his enormously popular and very conservative talk-radio show to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. In the patchwork process that is employed to nominate Presidential candidates, more than a dozen states have open primaries, which allow registered voters to participate in either contest. Limbaugh wanted Clintons close but seemingly losing fight with Barack Obama to go on for as long as possible, on the theory that a protracted battle would weaken the eventual nominee. He called the plan Operation Chaos. Limbaugh didnt think that Clinton was necessarily the weaker of the two candidatesin fact, he ultimately concluded that Obama was; by May, 2008, he was pushing his fans to vote for the senator from Illinois. Barack Obama has shown he cannot get the votes Democrats need to winblue-collar, working-class people, Limbaugh said. He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that.

Oh You Don’t Want My Vote In Nov

I’m an Indy that votes Dem. My state has closed Repug primaries/caucuses. If I were Right leaning I’d be insulted that I have to change my affiliation to them and back afterward to have a say in who the best candidate to run for GE is.The Dem party is now smaller than the Indies, and will be even smaller in a few months after Hillary’s scorched earth antics. I don’t think you want to disinvite us all at this point.

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From Ohio To Florida Your Cheat Sheet For The Next Crucial Primaries

Five states voting Tuesday could be make-or-break for some presidential candidates. A primer on whos voting and what outcomes are likeliest

Tue 15 Mar 2016 11.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 19.15 GMT

On 15 March, the names of the remaining presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich on the Republican side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats will be on ballot papers in five states and one US territory. Although this Tuesday will be less frantic than Super Tuesday two weeks ago, when 12 states and one territory held primary elections, its just as important. By 16 March, the race for the White House could look very different depending on how Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio vote.

Thats partly because the delegate numbers in those states are so high in total, 367 Republican and 792 Democratic delegates are available on 15 March. That brings us significantly closer to the finish line of having just two presidential candidates: at the moment, 33% of Democratic delegates have been pledged but by the time the polls have closed on 15 March, that number will rise to 50%. For Republicans, pledged delegates will jump from 46% to 61%.

Those percentages just mean that playing catch-up gets harder from here. Clinton is still on track for the Democratic nomination to change that, Sanders needs to pick up at least 326 of the pledged delegates .

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All day long, left wing social media has been embroiled in passive outrage over top Democrats admitting that the establishment of their party functions like a plutocracy masquerading as democracy. Liberals (or absent minded progs) are beginning to become aware of or confront the fact that the DNC was corrupt during the primaries of 2015/2016.. As if it wasn't obvious by how Hillary stayed at home the entire time Bernie sanders worked his ass off to achieved popular support.... Or GASP the email leaks that liberals tried to avoid reading. But this wave of outrage will pass, sadly, for leftists capitulate to the need for unity and that will be the card the DNC will pull ahead of the midterms, "or else the gop will win!". But there are other indicators of how the DNC overlords will get away with murder and live to rig again.. For example, progressives are mostly relieved for an admission and simply glad to feel vindicated or go AHA! ToLD YOU SO!!! rather than being spitting angry over it. Additionally it's considered "rigged" when it should rather be called corruption. By settling for more gentle, permissible terms like rigged or cheated, the full gravity of the situation played against left wing americans will be excused or forgotten. It defangs the abuse of progressive and liberal trust in their political institution. And the timing for this establishment admission is strategic... left wing americans have already become numb or accustomed to "trumps fascism" a year after the election.. Literally A FULL YEAR... and now they won't likely be agitating for reform, because the run up to the midterms is ahead.. But the progressives and justice minded liberals SHOULDNT RELENT They need to be at DNC events and "shutting shit down" until their demands for justice are met. Young, activist progressives need to apply activist tactics as seen in BLM events to the DNC itself, or else this gradually closing windows for change will be missed. Midterms be damned, it's pointless political theatre anyway. Tho even if the clintonites in the DNC get away with murder, they won't escape the outrage. Four years to the day Bernie lost, the DNC will contend with their own version of Trump. Because Trump was buttered up into clinching the nomination because four years prior, young and furious libertarians witnessed the Republican party systematically shut down and rig the system against Ron Paul They got their revenge by piling into the reactionary fervour train behind the alt right, intent on exacting revenge on the GOP by electing a giant FUCK YOU So in 2020, chances are that the DNC will get washed away by a massive wave of extreme left FUCK YOUtivism as well. If Ron Paul's libertarianism morphed into reactionary nationalism, then chances are that the Berniecrat social democrat fervour will morph into something akin to the radical left communism or anarchism. Antifa as we see it today, is the mere precursor. If the democrat party knew what's best for them, they would permit a reform now rather than cling on to power before those disgruntled berniecrats morph into something more vengeful and revolutionary. In any case Rev up those fryers