As Democrats struggle to present a united front in advance of the 2018 Midterm elections, the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election looms large as the party seeks to address the issue of superdelegates once and for all.
The division makes it clear that the DNC has never really recovered from the division between Hillary Clinton’s supporters and Bernie Sanders’ supporters, and are at risk of losing progressive votes if they don’t make their rigged system more open and transparent.
While the superdelegates don’t affect state primary votes for governors and members of Congress, the DNC does need party members who are still resentful over the 2016 election debacle to promote its candidates.
At present, there are over seven hundred super-delegate DNC members who are not bound by state primary votes when casting a vote for the party’s presidential candidate. These superdelegates make up 16% of all delegates, and have the power to sway the party’s primary election one way or the other. In 2016, most of the superdelegates favored Hillary Clinton in spite of the fact that Bernie Sanders had a great deal of grassroots support.
These super-delegates, working in tandem with other members of the DNC, rigged the process in Hillary’s favor, making it clear to its supporters that it had the right to override their feelings on important issues. In fact, as a veteran member of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee recently pointed out, superdelegates were created by the party with the specific purpose of working against the public primary process. However, widespread awareness and resentment of the superdelegates is leading the party to seriously consider doing away with at least more than half of them.
Another idea under consideration by the party is allowing only elected officials to retain superdelegate status. Additionally, some party members have proposed that any remaining superdelegates should only be allowed to vote at the DNC convention if there is no clear consensus candidate. In such an instance, superdelegates would vote in the second round of voting, but not the first.
The DNC hopes that both Bernie and Hillary loyalists can come to an agreement on the issue by the end of August at the latest, as it is rightfully concerned that the focus on internal discussions and lack of unity will overshadow the message that it wants to get out to voters. However, even an agreement on this thorny issue won’t heal the divisions that are already arising in the Democrat primary process.
Even the mainstream media has been unable to ignore the fact that the Democrat party is doing everything in its power to sideline progressive candidates favored by Sanders supporters in and outside the DNC ranks. In races across the United States, the DNC is endorsing and promoting traditional candidates, running roughshod over party activists and voters who want to see real change in the Democratic party and its beliefs. Clearly, Democrat party leaders feel that it needs to select what it deems to be “winning candidates” who have a chance of flipping GOP-held seats; however, the party is ignoring the fact that its attempts to travel this same road in 2016 led to total disaster. What is more, the DNC needs Sanders’ supporters in order to have any chance of retaking the White House in 2020, and these supporters are sure to want more than a simple reduction of superdelegates.
The super-delegate controversy is unlikely to go away anytime soon as DNC insiders struggle to retain control of the primary process. How the issue is resolved remains to be seen, but what is certain is that it will affect not only the 2018 mid-term elections, but also the upcoming 2020 presidential elections.
A political party needs votes in order to survive and thrive. A party that seeks to deny the will of the people in favor of choosing candidates in an undemocratic manner may score a few victories as it chooses some winning candidates; however, it will lose big in the long run as people begin refusing to support those who no longer take their wishes into account.
~ Conservative Zone
Democrat=Hypocrite=Pervert, their primary goal is to allow cross dressers into your children’s bathrooms to watch them piss. Fuck democrats.
They can’t even trust each other.
There are Democrats no more! They are now calling themselves “Progressives” Which is a more digestible word for “Communist”, Therefore all progressives need to move to Russia where they will have all their desires meet, You understand, Clintons will be in power for ever, No more elections as Clinton knows all and sees all And there you have it in a nut shell.
What is their message?
What is their platform?
What is their main goal?
What are Dims truly about?
Nobody seems to know and it remains the greatest
of all mysteries?
Who is their main leader?
What are their shining values?
Why would anyone ever want to be a Dem?
They are good for nothing, have NO clear message, and
stand for nothing. This is why I am no longer a Democrat! Buh Bye, losers.
Fuck OFF Democrats You Lost GAME OVER GET OVER IT YOUR DAYS OF RUNNING ARE OVER
The democrats are losing their own voters because the democratic party wants what the voters don’t want.
Democrats are out of touch with the American public.
Americans don’t want open borders, they want illegal immigration to stop, they want dreamers deported, they are tired of supporting illegal aliens by the use of our welfare system, They are tired of illegal aliens taking jobs from Americans and lowering wages, They do not want Muslim refugees into the country, They want lower taxes and a better economy, They are tired of democrats trying to destroy our First and Second Amendment rights, they are tired of criminal and gang violence and sanctuary cities, they are tired of the lying news media, they are tired of the democrats and their witch hunt on our president. Democrats want everything that the American people don’t want. Do democrats ever talk about what they can do for Americans instead of catering to illegal aliens, Muslim refugees and anyone else who is not American? NO.
Time to get rid of all the liberals, aka progressives and ‘dumbocraps’. In California that means NO to gubernatorial wannabees gavin mr. ‘sanctuary city’ of San Francisco and Los Angeles mayor antonio villaragiosa. senator dianne feinstein and ‘nasty’ nancy pigliosi. God help California if these thieving no good liberal ‘sanctuary city’ advocates stay in power, it’ll be more of the same, higher taxes, more homelessness, crime, dirt ‘illegal chinese ‘boat people’ who’ve turned many neighborhoods in the former clean, beautiful, affordable and liveable city of San Francisco into their version of china complete with filth, squalor and stench and the list of their ‘achievements’ goes on and on, unfortunately!, Enough of all this give away, open borders, ‘boat people’ BULL***T
Just like the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), the DINOs (Democrats In Name Only) have sold out to the true progressives (read socialist and/or communist) like Soros and other Mega Billionaires for their $s, those that think they can manage our lives better than we can “for the common good”. And I would wager that Obozo the Clown is positioning his way for the USSAs Supreme Leader with his merry band of thugs, Jarrett included.
The Democrats will continue sabotaging the President based on their feelings of hatred for him. They think Donald Trump is unfit to be President. He is been doing good since the Inauguration. They attack him for allegations that took place years and years ago before he became our President. He is been doing what he said he would do. He cannot do everything the way he wanted to do. Every days, weeks. and months the efforts that the Democrats have been doing doesn’t come from high motives, but to overturn President Trump’s legitimate results of the national election through a non-stop media campaign coupled with continuing investigations on multiple fronts to find something with which they can legitimize Donald Trump from the White House. They acted like bunch of young children with no sense of mature grown up man. There was not a single results in Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in our 2016 Presidential campaign. But every day they come up with some more stories, and they cannot straighten up their stories. Grow up men of Democratic Party!
I don’t know how many Americans are tired of all these, but I assume there are million of us.
The Democrats are mad because they had everything Rigged, Set-up, all their plans were in place and ready to go ( per Van Jones ) to make Hillary the first female President. We were on the road to the Socialist Sewage System, then along came Trump, an All American guy that could not be bought, He told us it like it really was, people listened, Trump feared no one, he gave us hope from the doom and gloom from being a Socialist State, like Venezuela, look what the Socialists did to that country. So you better Think before you vote, Socialism/Communism OR Freedom & Liberty.