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EarlG

(21,894 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:16 PM Mar 2020

Reminder: If your candidate has dropped out, here's how to update your Primaries forum preference

This discussion thread was locked by Skinner (a host of the Announcements group).

If you have been participating in the Democratic Primaries forum here at DU, you will recall that you were asked to select a candidate preference before you could post in that forum. You could select from any of the candidates who were running at the time, or "Undecided" if you had not yet chosen a favorite (or if you didn't want to say).

However, you may or may not be aware that if your candidate dropped out of the race at any point, your preference was automatically re-assigned to "Undecided."

If you were not aware that this happened, and you would like to update your candidate preference so that it reflects your current favorite, you can do so easily by visiting this link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=candidate_pref

(Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.)

Thanks for reading!

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Reminder: If your candidate has dropped out, here's how to update your Primaries forum preference (Original Post) EarlG Mar 2020 OP
Thank you. Sunlei Mar 2020 #1
Thanks EarlG. We need all the help we can get. nolabear Mar 2020 #2
thanks. riversedge Mar 2020 #3
When Pete dropped out I was automatically kicked out of his group William769 Mar 2020 #4
Agreed Kerrycrat Mar 2020 #5
Thanks for posting this DesertRat Mar 2020 #6
Yes! radical noodle Mar 2020 #8
Agree nt Raine Mar 2020 #12
I'm not ready yet Maven Mar 2020 #7
Me either. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #9
I was switched automatically LittleGirl Mar 2020 #10
Yes, everybody was EarlG Mar 2020 #11
Thanks for the information Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #13
I hope Yang is included in the new Administration. Have you seen this? Sunlei Mar 2020 #14
Thank You for the link Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #15
It might be an good idea Karma13612 Mar 2020 #16
It locks us out of candidate forums for candidates who dropped out IronLionZion Mar 2020 #17

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
1. Thank you.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:25 PM
Mar 2020

I'd like to make a suggestion please. The democratic primary now has only 2 front runners remaining.

I think it would avoid much divisiveness & foster discussion on policy differences to drop the DU picture tag preference.

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
2. Thanks EarlG. We need all the help we can get.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:28 PM
Mar 2020

riversedge

(69,724 posts)
3. thanks.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:29 PM
Mar 2020

William769

(55,124 posts)
4. When Pete dropped out I was automatically kicked out of his group
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:29 PM
Mar 2020

It would have been nice to have been given notice so we could have been able to give our final thoughts & say goodbye to our fellow supporters of Pete. I have happily switched over to V.P. Biden but feel like I am missing closure with Pete.

Just a thought.

Kerrycrat

(159 posts)
5. Agreed
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:33 PM
Mar 2020

A bit of a grace period might have been nice

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
6. Thanks for posting this
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:46 PM
Mar 2020

I felt the same way when Klobuchar dropped out. We all were immediately switched to undecided and could no longer post in her group. I too happily switched over to Biden but missed closure with the Klobuchar group.

radical noodle

(7,990 posts)
8. Yes!
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:31 PM
Mar 2020

It was a shock to come back and find I was undecided and locked out of Pete's group.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
12. Agree nt
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:27 PM
Mar 2020

Maven

(10,533 posts)
7. I'm not ready yet
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:22 PM
Mar 2020

hedda_foil

(16,368 posts)
9. Me either.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:53 PM
Mar 2020

LittleGirl

(8,261 posts)
10. I was switched automatically
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:07 PM
Mar 2020

Sniff.

EarlG

(21,894 posts)
11. Yes, everybody was
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:12 PM
Mar 2020

Since we introduced this system a year ago, whenever any candidate dropped out their supporters have been automatically switched to "Undecided" within a few hours of the news breaking.

Since there was a such a large bump in Undecideds over the last week (with Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Steyer, and Warren all dropping out) this thread is just to remind people that they have been switched, and to let them know how to set a new candidate preference should they wish to.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
13. Thanks for the information
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:40 PM
Mar 2020

I will stick with Andrew Yang.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
14. I hope Yang is included in the new Administration. Have you seen this?
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 07:13 PM
Mar 2020

Yang just started a new venture called Move Humanity Forward. He's a brilliant person and defiantly a rising star!

https://movehumanityforward.com/#hero

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
15. Thank You for the link
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 07:42 PM
Mar 2020

Much appreciated.

I had received it via email from his new effort and will be contributing to goal, which is where my future political donations will be headed. I found that following his Presidential Campaign articulated what I had long believed but was just unable to put into words, which is essentially this, "We are measuring things wrong."

No matter who the nominee is will hopefully understand this and not just try to fix the current system, but turn the whole thing on it's ear and change the underlying structure. To a very large degree, I believe that this is why Donald Trump was elected. People are angry, want change and Trump promised change (granted, the only change he was going to provide, was to screw the people over, but folks are tired of the status quo and getting screwed by a system that doesn't seem to care about them.)

Karma13612

(4,527 posts)
16. It might be an good idea
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 04:59 PM
Mar 2020

To have another category of “undecided, was originally supporting x”
Otherwise, when conversing, we may not realize the poster has not always been an undecided, or a biden or bernie supporter. It means many more categories so probably not feasible. But, being undecided out of attrition feels kinda lonely.
I know I need to suck it up, but just still feeling a bit raw.

Sigh,

IronLionZion

(45,259 posts)
17. It locks us out of candidate forums for candidates who dropped out
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 03:16 PM
Mar 2020

yet those candidates still exist in other public offices and their supporters should still be able to post in their forums. Candidates who dropped out should have their forums open up to anyone to post, or have a grace period where existing supporters can still post.

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