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Protecting Hillary: All over but the shoutingEDITORIAL - New Hampshire Union Leader
September 21. 2015 8:38PM
In 2008, Democratic presidential primary voters defied the party establishment and picked an inspiring young candidate over the one anointed by party elders. This time, the establishment is not taking any chances. Democratic voters should feel used.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has strictly limited the number of officially sanctioned presidential primary debates to six and written the participation rules so tightly as to all but guarantee there will be no alternatives such as the New Hampshire Union Leader’s Voters First Forum for Republican presidential candidates this past summer.
The DNC has scheduled only four presidential debates before the Iowa caucuses, and only one debate in New Hampshire, that one on Dec. 19, just six days before Christmas.
When DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke at the state Democratic Convention in Manchester on Saturday, she was heckled so loudly her speech was drowned out at times. The hecklers shouted her down with demands of more debates. Their anger and frustration are understandable.
On the Republican side, primary voters have 16 candidate options and 11 debates to help them decide. Six of those debates are scheduled before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses. The Democratic primary voters are being muffled — on purpose — by a party elite that wants no one to disrupt Hillary Clinton’s path to the nomination.
If an establishment Republican is to win the presidential nomination in 2016, he is going to have to earn it. The same is not true on the Democratic side. From the debate schedule to the early endorsements from figures such as U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, the fix is in for Clinton. Democratic voters might ask themselves why the establishment feels the need to go to such lengths to protect its candidate from the voters’ judgment.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has strictly limited the number of officially sanctioned presidential primary debates to six and written the participation rules so tightly as to all but guarantee there will be no alternatives such as the New Hampshire Union Leader’s Voters First Forum for Republican presidential candidates this past summer.
The DNC has scheduled only four presidential debates before the Iowa caucuses, and only one debate in New Hampshire, that one on Dec. 19, just six days before Christmas.
When DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke at the state Democratic Convention in Manchester on Saturday, she was heckled so loudly her speech was drowned out at times. The hecklers shouted her down with demands of more debates. Their anger and frustration are understandable.
On the Republican side, primary voters have 16 candidate options and 11 debates to help them decide. Six of those debates are scheduled before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses. The Democratic primary voters are being muffled — on purpose — by a party elite that wants no one to disrupt Hillary Clinton’s path to the nomination.
If an establishment Republican is to win the presidential nomination in 2016, he is going to have to earn it. The same is not true on the Democratic side. From the debate schedule to the early endorsements from figures such as U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, the fix is in for Clinton. Democratic voters might ask themselves why the establishment feels the need to go to such lengths to protect its candidate from the voters’ judgment.
Link: http://www.unionleader.com/Protecting_Hillary:_All_over_but_the_shouting_
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