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These same brainiacs want to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:31:00 +0000

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These same brainiacs want to sideline Pelosi because... well, just because. So what if she's the most effective legislator & fundraiser we have - time for a change, even if for the worse.

And they haven't addressed the humorous irony that caucuses are in practice much more undemocratic with real repercussions than superdelegates have been since Carter's time. Not that I'm against caucuses - they do allow new blood to break into the game.

A victory for non-party

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 21:19:18 +0000

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A victory for non-party members at the expense of loyalists and party workers. A perfect bland non-commital landscape for next year's fickle new fashion, ripe for the Democrats' Trump, with no safety valve. What could go wrong?

The article portrays this as

ocean-kat — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:27:26 +0000

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The article portrays this as a big win for Sanders supporters. Imo it was a meaningless fight about nothing. Sanders supporters won but they won nothing. Since the primary system was established the super delegates have never voted against the winner of the primaries and I doubt they ever will. Except in some unlikely event for example the primary winner is later discovered to be a criminal or pedophile. When Obama surprisingly won the primary vote count a majority of super delegates changed their vote from Hillary to Obama. The same would have happened if Sanders had won the primary vote. The super delegates didn't switch their vote because Sanders lost the primary vote. The whole argument is stupid.