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Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Sanders Folks Upset About Registration Rules in NY [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)36. Is insulting voters a productive way to gain votes?
So, as the last underlined portion indicates, this jackass doesn't bother to vote in off year elections, and now he's mad because he's too flipping stupid to have checked before this year? Well, fuck him and the horse he road in on! He shouldn't need some pixie dust unicorn fart rfaux revolution to inspire him to get engaged. He'd be one of those who doesn't show up to vote in off year elections so we can win back Congress. Some of these people aren't low information voters, THEY'RE NO INFORMATION VOTERS!
Here in Iowa, the Democratic Party has a closed caucus, but one which welcomes voters with open arms.
If a person is dissatisfied with how many delegates their precinct has, they can work to change that by helping to get out the vote in off-year elections.
I wish that my precinct had had 9 delegates to send up to the next level, rather than only 8.
As it was, we sent 4 delegates for Bernie and 4 for Hillary.
Had we had an extra delegate to send, we might have sent a delegate for O'Malley, as well.
But I do have the option of encouraging democratic turnout during the next off-year election, in order to help my precinct reach 9 delegates next time around.
Encouraging folks to vote in off-year elections seems more productive for a political party than attempting to insult voters into doing the same thing.
The voter who didn't show up in the last off-year election might very well show up in the next off-year election, given the proper incentives and encouragement to do so.
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More attempts for voter fraud, the others has to follow the rules but some thinks they are not
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#7
Kind of a wasted effort on their part anyway, since California's practically an open primary.
NuclearDem
Apr 2016
#14
These people... Some of the Sanders folks are nuttier than squirrel shit. n/t
Stand and Fight
Apr 2016
#21
Nance, since they spend HOURS on FB and the internet posting anti-Hillary crap
KittyWampus
Apr 2016
#38
They also put an immense amount of effort into changing results of caucuses after the fact
lolly
Apr 2016
#74
Classic projection from the side whose candidate spent something like $6 million on marketing online
IamMab
Apr 2016
#48
REAL Democracy means having someone hold your hand, never being responsible
KittyWampus
Apr 2016
#39
If an already registered voter changed their party affiliation after 10/9/2015....
Princess Turandot
Apr 2016
#17
They can find their way to an overflow rally, but not to their Board of Elections website? I...
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2016
#18
One of the things I love about Clinton is that she generally has some kind of connection to local...
IamMab
Apr 2016
#52
And both the Trump & BS campaigns are getting screwed in the delegate race. Hillary's team....
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2016
#64
I want Democrats to select their parties nominee, thank-you. All they had to do was
still_one
Apr 2016
#41
As far as I am concerned, the view you brought up isn't an issue, and you are probably right, the OP
still_one
Apr 2016
#51
The rules for New York are to allow DEMOCRATS to choose their nominee, instead of independents and
still_one
Apr 2016
#37
Pity - ignorance is bliss, until you realize you blew your chance of voting in the primary.
George II
Apr 2016
#56
That was painfully obvious when they took a headline as something Hillary said.
liberal N proud
Apr 2016
#67