Yezzir!
The leaders of the socialist Democrats are doing a great job with their party. They shouldn’t change a thing. Keep up the good work commies!
Kucinich will ride into the convention and unify the party, and save it from electoral disaster...
Or not. We are now being told that "committed delegates" really aren't. So, there's yet another scab to peel off (maybe). That is the lot in life of all who insist on seeing everything in shades of grey, or, worse yet, they see justice as "evolving".
The Dems have pandered to every minority in this country telling each that they are the most important part of the mix. Thusly when a woman seemed a shoe-in, another minority ran against her and has half the Dem party genuflecting before him.(Remember when he blew his nose into the microphone? EEEEEWWWW). They are reaping what they have sown and the spectacle isn't over yet. More popcorn please!
Yeah, but when a party does devise a system that picks a candidate, such as the Republican primary system, people wail that it picked a candidate.
Be very afraid.
I notice he doesn’t list devine retribution as a possible reason for the democrats’ current woes...
I’m stocking up on popcorn as this summer’s Democratic convention will be better than a professional wrestling double header.
This a is what happens when you for years sell the notion of “popular vote wins” when it isn’t true, not even for the DemParty.
It’s beyond reform. It’s a failure. Time to pull out.
In the electoral college, each state is winner-take-all. Each state has a certain number of electoral votes – based on population – and whichever candidate gets the majority of the popular vote gets all of the electoral votes.
Not all of them.
Great point about Dean and Rove!
The basic Democrat problem is that if they let the party faithful nominate candidates, they will pretty much always lose. So they temper their over-egalitarian proportional delegate awards in each state (no winner-take-cll, as the Republicans do) with the idea of superdelegates, which pretty much admits that the heirarchy is afraid the rank and file will pick a leftist kook.
In a year when the Republicans are on the ropes, this Rube Goldberg scheme gives me some hope.
Dean, Pelosi and Ried. Those Dems sure can pick leaders.
The only republicans this cycle are Ron Paul and Tancredo.. and a couple of even more obscure candidates.. The republican system is the one that sucks.. The democrats select obvious malefactors not covert ones..
I disagree with that assessment. Under GOP rules, Hillary would have locked up (or come darn close to it) the nomination after winning the popular vote in Texas. The GOP didn't penalize Michigan and Florida for moving up their primary dates, and Hillary did get over 50% of the vote in both states.
By GOP rules, Obama would have been an afterthought after Super Tuesday.
I thought it was the other way around.
Yezzir!