Superdelegates and the DNC Establishment

[rmt]

^ I'm beginning to doubt you've ever voted before.

You register to vote. Based on your address, you are assigned a precinct. When it is time to vote, you go to your precinct, give them your name and voter registration card, and they look at the registration logs. If you're on the logs, they check your name off, you go into the booth and vote. If you're not, you cannot cast a regular ballot. There is no way for one person to vote twice/thrice.

As for the voter ID suppression Republicans are running, I urge you to watch John Oliver's show from this evening (ironically enough, I had no idea he was going to do a piece on this issue tonight and I left my computer to go watch it right after I responded to you). If you don't have HBO, I'll link the piece when it is available. I hope you watch it and form your own opinion. It is blatant voter suppression, performed and supported by only one party, without any evidence of fixing non-existent "voter fraud", and open admissions that the purpose of requiring voter ID is to win elections for Republicans.

It's been around 35 years since I registered to vote so please forgive me if I can't even remember registering. I've only voted in two precincts - never by absentee ballot or early voting (like at the library) so I wouldn't presume to know what it's like outside of my neighborhood or for a college kid AWAY at college. I'll try to watch your suggested show - thanks.

[ElNono]

On the flip side of this, you have what's going on in the GOP, where a guy like Trump has completely taken over the Republican brand but has little interest in the party going forward. He's made no secret of running as an independent if the party doesn't play by his rules, and basically is using the party, and abusing the fact the party was already somewhat in shambles. If he does indeed wins the nomination and loses the general, it's difficult to see what's going to happen to the GOP. It's probably going to be rock bottom and basically implosion. And so under that perspective, being mindful about the party going forward is also important.

[Nbadan]

On the flip side of this, you have what's going on in the GOP, where a guy like Trump has completely taken over the Republican brand but has little interest in the party going forward. He's made no secret of running as an independent if the party doesn't play by his rules, and basically is using the party, and abusing the fact the party was already somewhat in shambles. If he does indeed wins the nomination and loses the general, it's difficult to see what's going to happen to the GOP. It's probably going to be rock bottom and basically implosion. And so under that perspective, being mindful about the party going forward is also important.

The GOP may yet get its brokered convention...

[rmt]

The GOP may get it's brokered convention yet...

Trump, Cruz and Rubio are going at it - a bloodbath. Poor Carson is calling for peace, and no one's listening.

[Nbadan]

Trump, Cruz and Rubio are going at it - a bloodbath. Poor Carson is calling for peace, and no one's listening.

Trump polls horribly with independents....eaasy Hillary or even Sanders win in the General....the GOP establishments knows Trump can't win....but for now they are powerless to derail the Trump bandwagon...

[rasuo214]

Bernie isn't a Dem so big deal if he gets screwed by the Dem party. He only joined because that was his best route to getting elected. If it happens the Bernie supporters can whine all they want but they'll jump on the Hillary bandwagon. Ultimately though I don't see it as an issue because Hillary should dominate the south and midwest. Bernie will win the NE and maybe out west.


As far as concealed permit vs student id. One is state issued and the other isn't, unless Texas started issuing student ids?

All valid ids are either state or federally issued: a Texas driver’s license, a U.S. passport, a state-issued ID card, a state-issued election certificate, a Texas concealed handgun license, a U.S. military ID or a citizenship certificate with a photograph.


Not sure why it's an issue that voting would require some sort of government id.

[rasuo214]

Trump polls horribly with independents....eaasy Hillary or even Sanders win in the General....the GOP establishments knows Trump can't win....but for now they are powerless to derail the Trump bandwagon...

If there isn't significant pressure on one of Bush or Rubio to drop out then the GOP establishment deserves Trump as the nominee.

[boutons_deux]

Un-Democratic Party: DNC chair says superdelegates ensure elites don’t have to run “against grassroots activists”

“What do you tell voters who are new to the process who say this makes them feel like it’s all rigged?” Tapper asked the DNC chair.

“Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists,” Wasserman Schultz calmly explained.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/un_d...ots_activists/

wow

[spurraider21]

thanks Dems!

[RandomGuy]

Democrats are hypocrytical gots