Wasserman Schultz: We Separate Superdelegates From The Voting Process So Party Doesn'

[Archer0915]

There aren't many of those. You typically vote as a Republican or Democrat. Idaho's used to be that way, but now you have to register as one or the other. Closed primaries. So I don't do primaries.

In NC, independents can vote for one or the other.

• Semi-closed. As in closed primaries, registered party members can vote only in their own party's primary. Semi-closed systems, however, allow unaffiliated voters to participate as well. Depending on the state, independents either make their choice of party primary privately, inside the voting booth, or publicly, by registering with any party on Election Day. Thirteen states — Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming — have semi-closed primaries that allow voters to register or change party preference on election day.^[4][5]

[maineman]

The party leadership does get a voice. They can vote in their state's primary just like the rest of us.

listen, young fella... if you want to CHANGE the way MY party does business, join up, work in the trenches.... man the phone banks, walk through neighborhoods canvassing and dropping off candidate literature, take the day off at your own expense and drive voters to the polls on election day... blow an evening a month to go and attend your local party meetings... get the $#@! involved in MY party and THEN, and only $#@!ing then, can you even BEGIN to think you have a say as to how MY party nominates its presidential candidates. Until then, all you can really do is whine on the internet and I really could give a $#@!.

[maineman]

Do you just have zero interest in getting the votes of non-Democrats?

Open question to all of you defending this.

Of course I do. Nobody gets elected without the votes of those outside their party faithful. We democrats will pick the candidate that WE believe can best do that... the GOP will do likewise, and, on election day, we'll see who made the wiser choice.

[Green Arrow]

listen, young fella... if you want to CHANGE the way MY party does business, join up, work in the trenches.... man the phone banks, walk through neighborhoods canvassing and dropping off candidate literature, take the day off at your own expense and drive voters to the polls on election day... blow an evening a month to go and attend your local party meetings... get the $#@! involved in MY party and THEN, and only $#@!ing then, can you even BEGIN to think you have a say as to how MY party nominates its presidential candidates. Until then, all you can really do is whine on the internet and I really could give a $#@!.

First of all, I do have a say in who your party nominates because the person you nominate becomes one of only two real choices I have in who becomes president of MY country, which directly affects MY life in some pretty incredibly huge and impossible to ignore ways. The fact that you either don't see that or disagree with it just goes to show how much of an authoritarian you are. You do NOT get all the say in who I have to live under, especially when your ass is living a cushy life in Mexico.

Second, I will do everything in my power to see that your party either changes its methods or dies. Ditto for the Republicans. Because despite the fact that YOU think YOU get to make the choice for ME on who leads MY country and makes decisions that impact MY life, tyrant, I have more power than you think. You'd be amazed what a few million pissed off people can do.

Third, shove your disrespectful attitude up your ass and grow the $#@! up. You are an adult, time to stop acting like a man-child every time someone disagrees with you.

Of course I do.

Obviously not, because you're working awfully hard to piss me and others like me off to the point where I don't want anything to do with your party, despite the fact that we SHOULD be allies purely based on ideology. That's just stupid electoral strategy.

Yeah, yeah, I know. You won some easy elections against $#@!ty candidates. Bra-$#@!ing-vo. See how well you beat a REALLY $#@!ty candidate like Donald Trump when me and millions of other lefties stay home because you decided to be disrespectful and belittle us for having legitimate concerns about your process. Maybe then you'll learn some $#@!ing respect.

[donttread]

It's not that big of a deal. The party does it to protect themselves against voters nominating a Democrat version of Donald Trump out of some misguided popular fervor.

If Old BS proves that he's a viable candidate by doing well outside of Iowa and NH, you can bet some of those superdelegates will be throwing their support his way.

Any explanation starting with "It's not that big of a deal. The party does it to protect themselves against voters" Is a little scary

[maineman]

Second, I will do everything in my power to see that your party either changes its methods or dies.

and what, exactly, are all the things "in your power" that you intend to do to alter the super delegate policy of the democratic party, beyond whining like a $#@!ing girlie-man on the internet, that is?

I am here to tell you, as one who has played within the structure of the democratic party for well over four decades, unless things have changed radically since I moved to Mexico in 2011, internet whining will not really change the way the party does business.

What else, of actual substance, do you have in mind?

[Green Arrow]

and what, exactly, are all the things "in your power" that you intend to do to alter the super delegate policy of the democratic party, beyond whining like a $#@!ing girlie-man on the internet, that is?

I am here to tell you, as one who has played within the structure of the democratic party for well over four decades, unless things have changed radically since I moved to Mexico in 2011, internet whining will not really change the way the party does business.

What else, of actual substance, do you have in mind?

Tell you what. You do what you want. You want to be a slave to a corrupt system, just another mindless blob in an equally mindless herd, be my guest.

I'll continue to do what I do - which is NEVER just "whining on the internet."

We'll see who wins.

Just to forewarn you, though...I have a pretty good track record of winning.

[maineman]

Tell you what. You do what you want. You want to be a slave to a corrupt system, just another mindless blob in an equally mindless herd, be my guest.

I'll continue to do what I do - which is NEVER just "whining on the internet."

We'll see who wins.

Just to forewarn you, though...I have a pretty good track record of winning.

and your e-penis is ginormous!

[maineman]

If you can prove to me that your actions have halted the super delegate system in my party, I'll donate 10K to your favorite charity. Promise.

[Green Arrow]

and your e-penis is ginormous!

What are you, ten? This is really getting pathetic.

If you can prove to me that your actions have halted the super delegate system in my party, I'll donate 10K to your favorite charity. Promise.

https://www.partnershipfca.com/

If you don't mind, split it up evenly between each of the Partnership's divisions. Maximum effect, you know.

I'll be in touch.