2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The AP calling it didn't change anything of note [View all]TDale313
(7,820 posts)I'm in California. The AP calling the race last night will by any reasonable measure suppress the vote. It was engineered to do so- there is no way a bunch of new Hillary Supers told the AP in time for them to call it at that point without letting the campaign know and getting an ok. They'd been contacting the Supers for months. It's not a new thing. The new thing was how that bunch decided to answer this time.
I'm pissed. This was an attempt to suppress the vote in my fucking state. I hope people come out anyway, but history is very clear on what something like this tends to do to turnout. The Clintons have made it very clear that they wanted to win California desperately. To "send a message". To bring Bernie and his supporters to heel. Bill running around saying Bernie supporters will be toast after California. You're not paying attention if you think they were already looking past today and didn't care what happened because they were already expecting to get the nomination. Yes, she has it won- but they intended California to make a statement to Bernie and his supporters and that's why I think they pulled that last minute trick. Which is perfectly legal and requires nothing more than telling a few of her Supers "tell the AP when they call you on this date" Not hard. Not illegal. Unethical af.