***60,000**** !!!!!!! Bernie's LARGEST rally ever in Oakland -- 60,000 people!!!!!

[MADem]

158. Sorry--you don't get to hit and run like that.

The first thing you need to understand is that elections are not run by "Hillary," or "The DNC."

If you have an issue with the way that a state managed a primary contest, you take it up with them. And if you think your party (assuming you are a registered Democrat) didn't work hard enough to support you to ensure your enfranchisement, then you need to take that gripe up with the STATE actors in your STATE party.

Disenfranchisement sucks. I don't condone it, I strongly oppose it. Everyone should be allowed to vote, and to choose the nominee for the party WITH WHOM THEY AFFILIATE.

I am a Democrat. I don't claim any right to pick the loser for the GOP. I think party-crossers and game-players who think they can help a party pick the least preferred candidate suck, particularly when their support for that weaker candidate is entirely false.


We already know that there are people on Reddit and Twitter and other social media sites who proudly boast of playing a Trumpian game of registering Dem to, for example, fuck with Clinton and try to elect the weaker of the two candidates, who then plan to switch back to GOP in order to influence the House election of their favored Republican during midterms. With closed primaries, and particularly ones where a voter can't decide what they want to be when they stroll into the polling place, there'd be fewer issues with that because it would require an enormous amount of voter dedication to do that kind of thing.

Sample: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/trump-voters-boost-sanders-west-virginia

I've never been purged--this probably is because I've always been a Democrat, since I started voting a long, long time ago, and I vote in pretty much every election--even local ones.