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LetMyPeopleVote

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19. Do you ever tire of being WRONG?
Fri Dec 2, 2022, 05:08 PM
Dec 2022

All of your claims have been shown to be WRONG. Thank you for the laughs. Again, the DNC sanctioned both Florida and Michigan for violating DNC rules by stripping both states of ALL of these states' delegates. The DNC later agreed to restore the delegates of these states with only one-half of a vote. After then Senator Clinton conceded and the nomination contest was decided in favor of President Obama, the full voting power was restored because such voting power was meaningless.

I faced a similar issue when we had a credentials committee fight/protest for my county's delegations to the Texas state convention. A couple of days before the 2008 Texas Democratic Convention, then Senator Clinton conceded, and the credentials committee dismissed the dispute because it was moot. The restored votes of the Michigan and Florida delegations occurred at the Convention after the contest was decided and so these votes were in effect meaningless. The restoration of the full voting power of these delegations would have only mattered if the nomination contest was still in doubt. That is NOT what happened in the real world

Again, the point of this thread is that if New Hampshire or Iowa try to violate DNC rules, the DNC has the power to punish these states. Given that neither state is critical to an electoral college win by the President Biden or the Democratic nominee, these punishments should, and I believe would be enforced. Michigan's and Florida's delegations were punished in 2008 and the votes of these delegations was only restored after the contest had been decided.

Again, thank you for the amusement. Your claims are WRONG.

New Hampshire does not reflect the demographics of the Democratic Party LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #1
That's true, but that won't make NH change the date of its primary. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #2
The DNC can strip New Hampshire of their delegates LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #4
The last tweet is inaccurate. former9thward Dec 2022 #6
You are WRONG LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #12
Why did you delete the facts which prove you are WRONG? former9thward Dec 2022 #13
Thank you for the laughs LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #14
Everyone who was part of the process knew at the time the delegates would count in the end. former9thward Dec 2022 #16
I am well aware of the DNC rules and the rules of many state parties LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #17
Everyone who reads these posts can see where you deleted information from your citations. former9thward Dec 2022 #18
Do you ever tire of being WRONG? LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #19
The NHDP can choose to ignore the results of the Primary and hold a Caucus at their own expense. brooklynite Dec 2022 #3
Hopefully all caucuses will be abolished LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #5
Caucuses were recently abolished in my state, MN, Ocelot II Dec 2022 #15
It doesn't, but in combination with the other early states... W_HAMILTON Dec 2022 #7
Not many states do. What does being first, especially with the method used in Iowa ... marble falls Dec 2022 #10
But the DNC could refuse to accept the NH delegates Fiendish Thingy Dec 2022 #8
Would you risk NH's electoral votes? brooklynite Dec 2022 #9
I guess it will depend on how badly Biden wants to shake things up. Fiendish Thingy Dec 2022 #11
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