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In reply to the discussion: Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017) [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And letting the primaries play out organically?
What was there to lose by respecting the right of primary voters to have an ACTUAL say in the nominating process?
HRC won the nomination...I believe she would have done so without the DNC acting as if no one else should even be in the race, and without acting as if the ideas and activists of the Sanders movement(whatever one thinks of Bernie as a candidate or as a person-the ideas were always popular and were never inseparable from the shortcomings of the candidate) had no real support and no legitimate place in our process.
As to needing the extra time...we elected Obama with majority popular support in 2008, and the nomination there wasn't settled until June. Why couldn't we have done that this time? HRC was and is a formidable person-why assume she could only be elected if the primaries were free from any real debate? I think she was always capable of winning on the merits in a real contest, and without anyone on our side of the spectrum being silenced.