2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAP walks back Clinton "cinch"
https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-hillary-clinton"AP will not call her the nominee until she reaches that milestone in Philadelphia next month, when the partys delegates formally cast their vote at the convention."
But hey, Thanks Loads for all the voter suppression.
PepperHarlan
(124 posts)It's clarifying what happened last night for people who have zero understanding of the process.
BootinUp
(47,187 posts)PepperHarlan
(124 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)This is nothing new.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)brush
(53,859 posts)There's no way for Sanders to catch her.
It'll become official on the first ballot at the convention.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)So they only hear the word "nominee."
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Democrats Ascendant
(601 posts)She is the PRESUMPTIVE nominee, as every eventual nominee is called until they are certified at the party's convention.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)You're welcome.
onenote
(42,759 posts)The people who have faced violence and intimidation to prevent them from voting, who in the past faced poll taxes and other unconstitutional hurdles, and who today are being disenfranchised by ID requirements that are difficult for poor and elderly voters to meet.
No one is preventing a single Sanders voter from going to the polls. Not one. If they choose not to vote it's entirely on them. The reality is that they have exactly the same reason to vote today as they did yesterday. Sanders strategy was and still is to win as many contests by as large a margin today as possible thereby cutting into (but almost certainly not erasing) Clinton's pledged delegate lead. His strategy then involves taking the results from today along with GE polls to the SDs in an effort to persuade them to switch.
That strategy is unaffected by yesterday's announcement particularly since it was widely reported on Sunday and Monday that Clinton was so close to having a combined total of pledged delegates and SDs that it was inevitable that she would be proclaimed the presumptive nominee as soon as New Jersey (a state Sanders admitted he isn't going to win) was called.
So if Sanders voters stay home the only explanation is that they're low information voters who never understood what Sanders' game plan was or they're fairweather supporters -- hardly the revolutionaries they've been depicted as.
Democrats Ascendant
(601 posts)THANK YOU for this
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Please. Just fucking stop it already.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)The thing most don't understand about language is that it is infective and viral when the victims become ripe.
Don't say we didn't tell you so
Dem2
(8,168 posts)But thanks for playing.
WhollyHeretic
(4,074 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)They explained their process. They didn't walk back anything. Your cherrypicked quote is extremely disingenuous.