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Democratic Primaries

W_HAMILTON

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16. I think if your candidate is not viable after the first round, that's it -- they shouldn't...

Reply to Peacetrain (Reply #13)

Tue Feb 4, 2020, 05:56 PM

Feb 2020

..get any delegates. The nonviable candidates should be able to support other viable candidates or they can withhold their support and go home, but I don't believe it's fair that the nonviable candidates are allowed to all group up and end up competing (and even out-competing) candidates that passed the viability threshold after the first round.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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McCaskill just said that [View all] tishaLA Feb 2020 OP

Just read the thread.. so is McCaskill right? Cha Feb 2020 #1

That's definitely what happened, which I thought was against the rules as well. W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #2

Either way, isn't it ridiculous tishaLA Feb 2020 #4

I thought that non-viable first round candidates could become viable OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #3

I saw that on TV LeftTurn3623 Feb 2020 #5

She has it wrong then.. Once viable you cannot change your vote..but if two groups Peacetrain Feb 2020 #6

Right. You are in Iowa (so should know better than I) but that's my understanding as well. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #8

Totally understandable why she would be confused Peacetrain Feb 2020 #9

No it isn't dsc Feb 2020 #14

How it worked in my precinct slumcamper Feb 2020 #12

Now your precinct did it wrong dsc Feb 2020 #15

Until the card was actually SIGNED, anyone could go anywhere. slumcamper Feb 2020 #17

Sounds like your group evaded the rules. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #18

Nope--they were signed after realignment. Sorry. slumcamper Feb 2020 #20

But supporters of viable candidates were not allowed to realign under the rules. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #21

Why unfairly lock in viable candidates like that? W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #11

I think their thought process is to keep people from poaching Peacetrain Feb 2020 #13

I think if your candidate is not viable after the first round, that's it -- they shouldn't... W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #16

Someone posted on twitter that she was badgered OKNancy Feb 2020 #7

Not surprised Rider3 Feb 2020 #10

Correct! BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #19

Why don't they just have a do-over? ecstatic Feb 2020 #22