Good taste gone a little sour.

[fleabiscuit]

Coming up on a 38th wedding anniversary this year. Both wife and I were raised in working family homes. Dad went to work, mom is the homemaker and raises the kids. Both sets of parents lived through the great depression. My dad served in WWII, wife’s family lost a son in Vietnam. Wifey and I were born in the same small town hospital. We were both the babies of the families. Both birth certificates have the same attending nurse’s signature. We have the same birth day date, one month apart. We both heard stories from our parents of the hardships and the slow improvement of living through the decades. None of our parents ever wanted to go back to how things used to be. Living has always, although slowly, gotten better. We were raised in Democratic households. When we get a wound, we bleed blue. We were so excited when we went to vote together for the first time in a presidential election. We were going to cast our votes for Jimmy Carter. When we pulled up in the car at our designated polling spot an announcement came on over the radio that Ronald Reagan had already been declared the winner. We were momentarily devastated. We are on the West coast and the election had been called. We still went in and voted our party. It still hurt.

I was excited about tomorrow.

For me, the media coming out and announcing the presumptive candidate a day before tomorrows final primaries is total fucking irresponsibility.

Go HRC.

[UMTerp01]

1. I agree. The timing does suck

But it is what it is. This is a call from these news organizations and not from the candidates. If Hillary Clinton had as much power the Sandernistas claimed she had, don't you think she would've used her "evil powers" to tell the AP to hold off?

[teamster633]

6. If they hadn't called it tonight, they would have called it early tomorrow evening.

As much as Bernie tried to focus all the attention on California, New Jersey was going to hand Hillary the nomination well before the Cali polls closed. The timing is inconvenient and numbers are unsentimental, but the numbers are the indisputable foundation of Hillary's victory.

[asuhornets]

2. I agree also..Just one more day was all we wanted....nt

[Surya Gayatri]

14. 24 little hours more...and the denouement would've been so much sweeter.

[BootinUp]

3. The primary was over months ago. Why continue a circular firing squad?

At some point people need to be slapped if they are lost in a delusion and attacking our presumptive nominee. Personally, I think they waited too long.

[fleabiscuit]

7. Everyone should have the opportunity to be and feel that they are part of the election process.

If one is engaged in a 'circular firing squad' it's because they participated in that and it is not part of the election process.

[BootinUp]

8. Bernie has been lieing to them

if he had said something like he needs votes to represent him at the convention that would have been fine. He has been lieing and attacking Clinton for months. That makes unifying take longer and maybe too late.

[fleabiscuit]

11. And one more day wouldn't matter one darn bit! eom

[teamster633]

12. Everyone should have that opportunity.

There is no reason a little state like mine should always vote first and a huge state like California should always vote last. It isn't fair to the voters and it doesn't serve the interests of our party either.

[bravenak]

4. I'm sorry. My state never counts on the GE election night either

I think if she wins Cali it will be the thing that makes this official. Will be a big ass deal either way.

[Walk away]

5. I'm from NJ so I feel your pain but....

Our votes are so important. Hillary needs to win NJ and CA because putting Bernie out of his misery ASAP could make it possible for Hillary to beat Trump from strength. And don't forget down ballot. We can't let Bernie screw this up for the whole party. We have our part to play and it's really important.

[DemonGoddess]

9. Agreed wholeheartedly

So, AP called it tonight. People still NEED TO VOTE tomorrow!

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I am excited about HRC, but I did not like the timing either.

[shenmue]

13. Mazel tov