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2016 Postmortem

Triana

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8. It's not about delegate math. It's about giving PEOPLE / VOTERS a chance to vote

Reply to qdouble (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 03:16 PM

Jun 2016

first before jumping the gun. That smacks of total lack of ethics. It's disrespectful of hundreds of thousands of voters, serves to suppress their votes when they're told there's already a winner before the round of primaries - esp including a huge state like CA - is over.

Nope. This is not "the usual procedure". They jumped the gun.

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Hillary Clinton did not win the Democratic Primary, she won a secret survey of party elites [View all] Triana Jun 2016 OP

LOL Secret survey? The AP calls supers every election. We know WHO they all are. Lucinda Jun 2016 #1

And they're SO unethical and stupid they couldn't wait ONE MORE DAY Triana Jun 2016 #5

So we are falling back on the union argument? NCTraveler Jun 2016 #2

You do know that presumptive nominee does not equal official nominee right? qdouble Jun 2016 #3

Duh. But it means everyone starts acknowledging the reality geek tragedy Jun 2016 #7

Oh I know, just stating that the disenfranchisement arguments from BS supporters are silly qdouble Jun 2016 #10

oh, the crooked thing called math comment was snark. geek tragedy Jun 2016 #13

It's not about delegate math. It's about giving PEOPLE / VOTERS a chance to vote Triana Jun 2016 #8

They called the republican race before Trump had the magic number, that's how the media works. qdouble Jun 2016 #14

Today's elections weren't cancelled. There is as much reason for Sanders to vote as there was before onenote Jun 2016 #15

so King will be celebrating tonight when Clinton wins the primary? nt geek tragedy Jun 2016 #4

It was totally rigged by Sanders' people. This is only going to help him since it motivated his eastwestdem Jun 2016 #6

Survey says?! NurseJackie Jun 2016 #9

Secret survey? What was secret about it? If it would have been secret we wouldn't know the results yellowcanine Jun 2016 #11

The only place I've read that Hillary won the Democratic Nomination is from this repeated article Sheepshank Jun 2016 #12

Once again King proves he's an idiot mythology Jun 2016 #16

dear Bernienistas - I voted in a secret survey, did YOU? its called a ballot lololol nt msongs Jun 2016 #17