2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDNC Communications Director: Superdelegates "are likely to change their minds" on who to vote for" !
Luis Miranda, Communications Director, Democratic National Committee
Luis Miranda also said CNN and other media should not include the super delegates in the vote totals before the convention because they have not voted and can change their minds before the convention.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)imagine2015
(2,054 posts)And right now more than 150 super delegates have not indicated a preference.
So it will be a contested convention that could go either way since neither candidate will not have enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)tom-servo
(185 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Sanders' lone Senate backer says he should drop out before convention if he's losing
Bernie Sanders' lone supporter in the Senate said Thursday that the Vermont senator should end his presidential campaign if he's losing to Hillary Clinton after the primary season concludes in June, breaking sharply with the candidate who is vowing to take his insurgent bid to the party convention in Philadelphia.
In an interview with CNN, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley argued that the party should be united heading into the July convention. And that if Sanders has no viable path to the nomination after the final round of primaries in June, he should concede to Clinton at that point. He said that Sanders should follow the model employed by Clinton in 2008, who dropped out in June of that year and pledged her support to Barack Obama.
"Secretary Clinton, then senator, said, 'OK, I had the discussion across America. I'm ready to pivot and work together.' And Obama reached out, and she reached out, and that should be a model for us to follow," Merkley said outside of the Capitol on Thursday. "I think after California, June 7, is about the time it would be appropriate -- all states will have weighed in by then. It will then give them five weeks to work together" before the convention.
more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/bernie-sanders-jeff-merkley-endorsement/
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)The Hillary surrogates and media commentators are getting very nasty with Bernie and his supporters using "swiftboating" character assassination slanders and "dirty tricks"on behalf of their former Senator from Wall Street.
That's how they operate.
They clearly don't appreciate much less practice democratic methods and norms.
Look at how they operated at the Nevada convention.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)This is what she does. Clawing, scrabbling, twisting arms, threatening. And keeping an enemies list.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)DrDan
(20,411 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Not to announce their preference a year before the convention to handicap and discourage all potential opponents.
I'm going to actively work against all elected SD's who did, which means basically every single elected official on my ballot, congressman or above.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Wednesdays
(17,408 posts)is also to prevent a hijacking of the nomination process by an absolute lunatic or GOP plant.
And Sanders is definitely neither.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)It's good that he did it now, but he's a little late after those phony numbers have misled so many people who might've voted differently.
The ignorance of news people is shocking. They should know this on their own research.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)not to.
This has been a continuous propaganda ploy; by the corporate media conglomerates such as CNN particularly used on primary or caucus days/nights to influence or discourage the actual voters.
Thanks for the thread, imagine2015.