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hellofromreddit's JournalPerfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Super-Delegates Declare Winner Through Media
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/07/perfect-end-to-democratic-primary-anonymous-super-delegates-declare-winner-through-media/....
This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary. The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identity the media organization incredibly conceals. The decisive edifice of super-delegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, its only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.
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It does make charges of corruption and rigging that much stickier, further weakening Clinton before the GE. Smooth move.
Well, this horse race sure has been fun. How about we talk policy now? Trade!
One of my biggest concerns with Clinton is her stance on free trade.
She was for TPP before it started to cost her politically, then she flipped from support to opposition. On the one had, it's good to see a politician respond to public pressure. But, on the other hand, AFTER opposing the Colombia trade agreement in the 2008 campaign, she went on to support it as SoS.
It gets messier: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/21/401123124/a-timeline-of-hillary-clintons-evolution-on-trade
So, as a Bernie supporter, what am I supposed to think of Hillary's position on trade? Should I just file this one under "compromise" and assume the outcome will be poor, but not as bad as Trump? Or is there some reason I ought to feel confident in Clinton's handling of trade?
Pledged delegates and super delegates follow different rules
Lumping their counts together clearly distorts reality. So why do so many in media and around here do it?
Peer pressure. Good old peer pressure. "Look, everyone else knows what's up, why would us insist on being a loser, bub?" It happened way back when Hillary had hundreds of supers before even Iowa. She was "inevitable." It happened again in NH. "The clear front runner." And it just piled on in state after state since. "Call it."
The DNC has directly told the media not to include supers in the counts. But that didn't stop them.
Relevant video:
We can't control the media or the campaigns, but we can control ourselves. So how about y'all stop lying in your OPs? Nobody around here buys it.
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