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Celerity

(42,668 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 02:38 AM Feb 2020

NYT : The Superdelegates Are Nervous

And many of them tell us they’re willing to use a brokered convention to stop Bernie Sanders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/on-politics-sanders-superdelegates.html

This week, I took a brief break from chasing candidates across the country to conduct a little stress test on the Democratic Party establishment. Over the past few days, my colleague Reid Epstein and I interviewed 93(!) superdelegates — the elected officials, Democratic National Committee members and other party leaders who could play a role in choosing a nominee at the national convention. Most of them have spent years, or even decades, working to elect Democrats to all levels of government.

After nearly 100 interviews, I can confidently report back to you, dear readers, that in some quarters of the Democratic Party, the anxiety about Senator Bernie Sanders’s popular vote victories in the first three nominating contests is real — and rising. We are talking palm-sweating, meditation-app-subscribing, yoga-retreat-scheduling levels of anxiety.

One prominent Democrat put the “freakout level” at a 12 — on a scale of one to 10. In private conversations, members of Congress used words like “disaster” and said Mr. Sanders had “hijacked the party.” One lawmaker described the mind-set as “depression mode.” (Many of these people threw in some expletives, too.)

Much of these Democrats’ concern is rooted in fears that having Mr. Sanders at the top of the ticket could cost Democrats seats in competitive House and Senate races, particularly in states like Arizona and Ohio, where some fear his liberal platform could alienate the more moderate suburban voters who helped Democrats win back the House in 2018. “Bernie Sanders most certainly is not our strongest candidate,” said Will Cheek, a D.N.C. member from Tennessee. “I intend to firmly and resolutely fight for the strongest candidate.”

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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NYT : The Superdelegates Are Nervous (Original Post) Celerity Feb 2020 OP
lookie here, media fear mongering. whatta surprise nt msongs Feb 2020 #1
The party never had to let him on the ticket. He's not "hijacking" anything. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author chwaliszewski Feb 2020 #3
Lol, I JUST posted about this asking why there was no reaction to it but OfTheBottom99Percent Feb 2020 #4
they fucked up in 2016. pansypoo53219 Feb 2020 #5
The weidest thing is that they think blocking Bernie will help ripcord Feb 2020 #6
 

msongs

(67,199 posts)
1. lookie here, media fear mongering. whatta surprise nt
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 02:58 AM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
2. The party never had to let him on the ticket. He's not "hijacking" anything.
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 03:21 AM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

Response to Celerity (Original post)

 
4. Lol, I JUST posted about this asking why there was no reaction to it but
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 05:08 AM
Feb 2020

now that I think about it I probaly should have put my post in the Primaries threads- oops

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

ripcord

(5,084 posts)
6. The weidest thing is that they think blocking Bernie will help
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 08:56 AM
Feb 2020

I don't see how splitting the party at the convention helps but I'm not part of the all knowing-party elite.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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