I just had a flashback to 2008. Anyone here remember the PUMAs?

[Chichiri]

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_United_Means_Action

PUMA ("People United Means Action&quot was a political action committee in the United States that opposed the Democratic Party leadership and the nomination of Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2008 presidential election.[1] PUMA began as an effort by supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who believed that Clinton should have been the Democratic nominee.[2][3] According to PUMA, "We [were] protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters."[4]

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PUMA is also part of a coalition of online activists with similar goals, the JustSayNoDeal coalition.[10] The PUMA acronym as originally coined stood for "Party Unity My Ass", but the PAC was registered as "People United Means Action," a backronym.[11] Executive Director Darragh Murphy estimates that PUMA PAC proper had gathered over 10,000 members and the organization's official site had received more than a million hits between its founding in June through August 2008.[12] Dianne Mantouvalos, founder of the larger JustSayNoDeal coalition, estimates the coalition comprises over 100 groups, and accounted for more than 10% of the 18,000,000 votes Clinton received in the primaries.[10]

Will Bower, a media spokesperson for PUMA and JustSayNoDeal, summarized many of PUMA's objections to the actions of the Democratic Party during the 2008 presidential primaries. PUMA's stated beliefs were that Obama was selected undemocratically by the party leadership rather than by Democratic voters,[13] and that Obama was unfairly advantaged by the ruling by the Rules and Bylaws Committee on seating Florida and Michigan delegates.[10]

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PUMA's protest actions during the 2008 election took several forms, including encouraging a Clinton write-in campaign for the general election, voting for no presidential candidate, or supporting other candidates such as U.S. Senator John McCain (R–AZ).[19][20][21] Some hoped that enough superdelegates would change their minds to give Clinton the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in August.[22] Other expressed desires were to help defeat Obama in the general election by electing McCain president in order to set up another run for Clinton in 2012, or that Clinton run as an independent candidate in the election.[23] Some have noted that the Internet fostered the organization. Many PUMA advocates are part of the blogosphere and use it for organization, advocacy and viral communication.[10]

The PUMA PAC ceased to exist in May of 2011.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

[hobbit709]

1. Another definition of PUMA was Party Unity My Ass

[MissDeeds]

4. Yep

Guess what camp came up with that.

[hobbit709]

6. The one that shifts readily with the wind.

[global1]

2. So How Many Former PUMA's Are Hillary Campaign....

staffers this time around?

[SheilaT]

3. Oh, yes.

And some of us have been referencing them for several months now.

If Bernie starts doing well enough that he looks likely to win the nomination, I'm sure the PUMAs will be out in force.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They'll be back if Bernie does well.

en force I suppose