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Washington Post Op-ed: ‘Give the Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing the President’
Breitbart ^ | February 19, 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 02/19/2020 7:20:42 AM PST by maggief

The Washington Post is taking criticism for an op-ed published Tuesday by Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari, titled: “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”

Citing the “rocky start” to the Democratic Party’s presidential primary, Azari suggests that the process of choosing the nominee be taken from the people and returned to the politicians:

The current process is clearly flawed, but what would be better? … A better primary system would empower elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters.

One lesson from the 2020 and 2016 election cycles is that a lot of candidates, many of whom are highly qualified and attract substantial followings, will inevitably enter the race. The system as it works now — with a long informal primary, lots of attention to early contests and sequential primary season that unfolds over several months — is great at testing candidates to see whether they have the skills to run for president. What it’s not great at is choosing among the many candidates who clear that bar, or bringing their different ideological factions together, or reconciling competing priorities. A process in which intermediate representatives — elected delegates who understand the priorities of their constituents — can bargain without being bound to specific candidates might actually produce nominees that better reflect what voters want.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; azari; dncstrategy; elitists
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To: maggief

Who says who is elite? We’ve had our fill of you self-proclaimed betters. Your day of reckoning is coming.


21 posted on 02/19/2020 7:31:44 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: maggief

I’ve got a better idea.

Let’s give the Elites no say whatsoever.


22 posted on 02/19/2020 7:32:21 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: maggief
Nanzi Pelosi and other fascist elite democrats have been saying for 3+ years to not allow the voters/us to elect the next president. We are not smart enough to elect our next president!

Only Nanzi and her fellow elite Democrat fascists are smart enough to select (not vote/select) our next president.

23 posted on 02/19/2020 7:32:37 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The DNC should just sell their top rat candidate via bidding on EBAY!)
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To: trad_anglican

Does letting Ditch choose GOPee Senators and Trump’s AG work well?


24 posted on 02/19/2020 7:32:38 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: goldstategop

Or pot smoke-filled rooms. Dude!


25 posted on 02/19/2020 7:32:56 AM PST by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: sanjuanbob

I’ve always believed no SSN = no vote


26 posted on 02/19/2020 7:33:16 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: maggief

they really just don’t get it. they really don’t.


27 posted on 02/19/2020 7:33:29 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: trad_anglican

So in 2016 the parties would have picked Jeb! and Hillary.

Are you happy with that outcome?

I’m not and would have stayed home.


28 posted on 02/19/2020 7:33:47 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: maggief

You have to hand it to the Dems!

In 2016 the WikiLeaks SHOWED the depth and breadth of REAL collusion between the Democrat Party and its brazen propagandists, the MSM.

But still, the channels of control and coordination remain obviously in place, undisturbed.

I can just see in my mind’s eye, the flashing emails and text-messages about “laying the groundwork” for the Convention hijacking that are behind this one.


29 posted on 02/19/2020 7:34:08 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: maggief

give them one candidate and one party to make mandatory voting easy


30 posted on 02/19/2020 7:34:13 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: trad_anglican
The Washington Post has an official slogan: "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

I don't know WTF that is supposed to mean exactly, but this op-ed pretty much exposes that entire organization as a bunch of comical frauds.

31 posted on 02/19/2020 7:34:25 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: maggief

Fine, Azari. How does one become an elite? And how does one become a politician?


32 posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:19 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: chris37

Eat the elites.


33 posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Winner!

Dems need to put into practice their opposition to the electoral college by the example of having a one day nationwide primary with the top vote-getter getting the nomination without further ado.


34 posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:53 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: trad_anglican

“...It advocates letting the parties pick the candidates.”


Would the Republican party elites of 2015 picked Trump or Bush?


35 posted on 02/19/2020 7:37:00 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: goldstategop

Still smoke filled just a different plant.


36 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:04 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: hanamizu

Jeb!


37 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:08 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: trad_anglican
What's wrong with letting the parties pick the candidates and let the people decide who wins? I can't think of a system that would produce worse candidates than we've been getting for the last 20 years or more.

With that system there would be no Trump! How awful. Bite your tongue! Who the hell are you? A DU plant?

My God that system would only yield globalists , RINOS and socialists to choose from!

38 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: uranium penguin; 1Old Pro

Did they amend the super delegate rules at all? Bloomie can buy them off as old pro says.


39 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:24 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: trad_anglican

“What’s wrong with letting the parties pick the candidates and let the people decide who wins? I can’t think of a system that would produce worse candidates than we’ve been getting for the last 20 years or more.”

Hillary would’ve beaten Jeb in 2016.


40 posted on 02/19/2020 7:40:25 AM PST by ebshumidors
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