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I understand the good reasons

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:53:05 +0000

In reply to I think 538's reasons are all

I understand the good reasons for this, as I did 3-4 years ago - but now it just irritates me to no end.

I think 538's reasons are all

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:47:49 +0000

In reply to I don't follow endorsements

I think 538's reasons are all good:

Why we’re tracking endorsements

- Party elites use endorsements to influence not only voters but also each other, hoping to get other powerful party members to rally behind the candidate they think would be most acceptable.
- The pace of endorsements — whether leaders coalesce early around a single candidate or are backing a variety of candidates — can indicate how drawn out the primary season will be.
- A lack of a consensus can mean that party leaders’ first-choice candidate may have more trouble securing the nomination.
Also, seeing them made me realize that in normal times--that is, when we don't have a severe nut case for president who as part of his sanity problem is that he isn't loyal to anyone but himself and draws all the air out of the country and turns traditional party ideology upside down, etc.--these intraparty relationships tell you a lot more about power in the government among those who actually hold it, and they are not the president. Traditionally, the most important thing the president does, where he/she only matters: federal court appointments; foreign policy. And it would be less of the latter if Congress did what it was supposed to do on interventions. The president doesn't run this country as far as what matters to most people's lives, period. The presidential race, it's a kabuki show. Who your Congressional reps. are and what party controls Congress is far far more important.

I don't follow endorsements

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:18:00 +0000

In reply to The 2020 Endorsement Primary:

I don't follow endorsements anymore. Seriously. It just pisses me off after 2016, when Hillary went to the trouble of lining up a whole diverse cast of endorsements, including most of our federal elected leaders, union leaders, planned parenthood, et al - it was just turned into her being "anointed", how those are just the elite leaders, how the common people disagreed. Fuck Bernie. I'll pay attention to something else. And I don't give a shit about who endorses fuckall. He and most all of them are dead to me.