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In reply to the discussion: Sanders:"Americans Are Not Staying Up Every Day Worrying About Russias Interference In Our Election" [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)I've been on DU since 2003, and have been through a lot of DU primary wars as a supporter of one candidate or another. Both Sanders and Clinton had full scale political operations during the primaries that looked to exploit weaknesses in their opponents. Clinton and Obama did the same in 2008. So did a lot of other candidates in both years who were eliminated earlier. Those operations get shut down as candidates are eliminated until we only have one candidate for the office in question. On DU we have an official primary season with a dedicated forum where supporters of one Democratic aligned candidate can freely make the case against a different Democratic aligned candidate. At a certain prescribed point in the election calendar that forum is shut down. For good reason.