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phazed0
(745 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)phazed0
(745 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)sore losers. Remember the Bush supporters? Sore loserman!!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)ozone_man
(4,825 posts)DWS makes it unbearable. The Democrats are as corrupt as the Republicans, there is hardly any difference in my view. Let's restore the Party to its FDR ideals. Clintons are not in that direction, to the right of Trump in most ways that affect the 99%.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)Support a long-term party member or an outsider? She's doing her job.
jalan48
(13,841 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Yeah, screw this democracy thing where people get in the way of them deciding stuff.
You are the problem
Zorro
(15,722 posts)That's what "this democracy thing" is all about.
Get over it.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)... but their collective fat ass. My point remains: the DNC is there to give it to the person who's turn it is? That is what the parent post implied.
Zorro
(15,722 posts)She's earned her delegate lead.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)You can berate me about it all you want but a lot of people will see this is cronyism which will hurt Hillary in the GE and the democratic party long term. Unfortunately, all that stuff we complained about for the republican party is now true for this one.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)he's caucused with the Dems his entire time in House and Senate and he's been on, or chaired committees for the Dems.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)she has clearly stated this and used the term "stop the grassroots" when explaining the purpose of the superdelegates.
dws is not a democrat. i don't know what she is other than mean, spiteful, authoritarian, manipulative, and a snotty elite.
she is pissed she may loose her senate seat, her job with the dnc, and the election for hillary. she feels threatened and for whatever it takes she must win all.
poor, poor debbie....this may be the end of her career.
ananda
(28,833 posts)!!!
FighttheFuture
(1,313 posts)He's is more of a Democrat than most of them in office today! People see that and they know it. It's the Corporate leaning Democratic leadership that cannot understand that because they forgot what this Party's roots!
DWS appears to be too much of a tone-deaf DLC toady to understand that. She is too busy courting payday lenders, and minimizing the debates, stymieing Bernie, ignoring all the voting issues injected by the R's over the years, to understand anything else.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...that challenged the Ne-Empress, would have been completely left out in the cold by DWS and the DNC.
Wasserman-Shitz is PWNED by the Clinton machine. She exists to serve She Who Must Be Obeyed, plain and simple.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)it goes against any logic, and we see examples of it, from debates to dismissing talk about Bernie early on in the race, even in regards to speaking at the Convention
livetohike
(22,121 posts)Oligarchy! Establishment! Corporatists!
still_one
(92,061 posts)phazed0
(745 posts)..and according to Hillary supporters, polls don't matter.
But since still_one says it, it must be true!
still_one
(92,061 posts)primaries for Sanders, not because they identify as Democrats
beardown
(363 posts)Good to know you side with the rabid repubs who have the same beliefs about Acorn and other organizations who try to increase Democratic party membership.
It's getting so you can't read more than a couple of responses to any of these threads without running into posts like this that show just how horribly wrong the Democratic party has strayed from it's FDR and Kennedy days into the Clinton NAFTA, welfare reform, TPP, Iraqmire days.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... and voted for Bernie in the Primary.
livetohike
(22,121 posts)I notice a change on my FB feed too. No more barrage of donate to Bernie, feel the Bern cheerleading. It's over.
LS_Editor
(893 posts)Last edited Thu May 19, 2016, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)
You must have more friends than anyone in the world, or it's all anecdotal bullshit.
livetohike
(22,121 posts)Bodych
(133 posts)...gotta love that expression.
And I do.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)livetohike
(22,121 posts)engineers, artists, musicians, accountants for non-profits, doctors, pharmacists, not one banker. Thanks for asking .
still_one
(92,061 posts)consider themselves Democrats
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-importance-of-the-bernie-sanders-voter/
Lean
(39 posts)Are sick and tired of the Clinton's. Even the one's who were strong supporters at first. And it appears that Trump has closed the gap. The DNC establishment chose to back the wrong candidate. Hillary is going to lose. Again. Sham on you DNC. Shame on you DWS!
Optimism
(142 posts)A President Trump because the Superdelegates refuse to put up the best, most electable candidate is not cool. It's tragic ... for this country and the world.
frylock
(34,825 posts)LS_Editor
(893 posts)That's not a good sign.
Fla Dem
(23,585 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)Red and rightward. The most blatantly honest logo I have ever seen.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)In Seattle it is exactly the opposite.
BTW, where did you pull that number? It doesn't smell right.....
still_one
(92,061 posts)Democrats, and there are enough posts here which confirm that
"Thats because a lot of Sanders voters dont identify as Democrats. Exit polls have been conducted in 27 primary and caucus states so far, and Clinton has won among voters who identify as Democrats in all but Vermont, New Hampshire and Wisconsin (where she tied Sanders). But shes won self-identified independents only in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. (I keep using that term self-identified because the exit poll asks voters how they usually think of themselves Democrat, Republican or independent. A voters self-identification may differ from her party registration, and some states do not have party registration at all.)"
.....
Clintons reasonably strong general election numbers among self-identified Democrats she had the support of 87 percent of Democrats in a recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll in her matchup against Trump,
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-importance-of-the-bernie-sanders-voter/
trudyco
(1,258 posts)but that self identified Democrats number... keeps going down.
And that Independent number... keeps going up.
DWS/DLC has pushed people out of the party, especially progressives.
down,down,down... fewer and fewer..shrinking percentage of the population... less effective... less important
Great job, Democrats! Great job Debbie! Go Hillary! you guys really know how to manage a big tent. Not.
still_one
(92,061 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)padfun
(1,786 posts)Your number is so obviously inflated that it borders on a Trumpism.
mainer
(12,017 posts)Don't you dare say all Sanders supporters are Johnny come latelys. There are many, many of us who have given tens of thousands of dollars to the DNC over the years, who are now fed up with what the Democratic party has become.
I can't even stand to look at DWS's face. And I'm quickly getting to that point with Hillary.
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)Instead it was just thoughtless and childish. Nice work!
TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)lol, no.
Scientific
(314 posts)Her track record - not just in overt support of Hilary - but in general organization and strategy, sucks. She is the wrong person for the job.
still_one
(92,061 posts)which mostly occur from Sanders supporters, with OPs labelled as LBN, when instead they belong in General Discussion : Primaries makes DU a joke
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)convention? He has gone off the deep end.
riversedge
(70,077 posts)Has a reputation for cheating, and stretching the truth.
frylock
(34,825 posts)riversedge
(70,077 posts)red dog 1
(27,767 posts)Too bad Obama lacks the courage or the will to fire DWS!
She's just too damn divisive, IMO.
A divided Democratic Party will not do well come November, regardless of who the nominee is.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)She needs to go.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)the SOS job?
whoever picked her she needs to go.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)"From what I can tell, the current Sanders campaign is riven between people who are increasingly upset or bewildered by what we might call the resurgent "burn it down" turn of Sanders outlook and others who are fully immersed in the feedback loop of grievance and paranoia that sees all the political events of the last year as a series of large and small scale conspiracies to deny the rectitude and destiny of Bernie Sanders. I've seen many, many campaigns. People put everything into it and losing is brutal and punishing. Folks on the losing side frequently go a little nuts, sometimes a lot nuts. The 2008 denouement really was pretty crazy. But it's not clear that this time we have any countervailing force - adulthood, institutional buy-in, future careers, over-riding pragmatism to rein things in."
Other than a debate advantage to Hillary at the beginning, The DNC hasn't done much to affect the outcome of the race. They've had fundraising with Hillary but Bernie could have had that too if he chose it. Now that the Sanders side is devoted to nothing more than damaging the nominee its time for DWS to speak up.
Bernies supporters are obsessed with bizarre conspiracy theories. Now that they are losing they've gotten much worse. The election wasn't rigged. Bernie lost.
Duval
(4,280 posts)But, there's another website I won't either donate to or frequent. Too bad.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)I learn that way.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Victory Fund, the DNC and the state parties. Included in these deals were the Super-Delegates.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)He chose not to.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Bernie.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)But you can't say the process was fixed because only Hillary got the deal.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)it.
You have a strange idea of fairness - because someone refused to take part in a dirty deal they are to blame? Funny.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)He got more money from his supporters by turning down big donations and made out better in the long run.
I'm just saying you can't claim the DNC played favorites where they didn't.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)is FULL OF SHIT. And Josh Marshall is a very much full of shit.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)unless they have evidence.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)is a name for just going by preconceived notions. Given that you call yourself Suspicious, its not hard to guess what you'd think you were smelling. Judging based on evidence is not the same as a head in the sand.
The exit polls in so many Democratic primaries were off significantly and always in favor of Hillary. Strangely, every exit poll on the GOP side was spot on. If this had happened in an African or Latin American country the world would be screaming election fraud.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)Exit polls aren't all that accurate. Its very difficult to get a random sample.
Bernie outperformed many polls. If anything, polls would make it look like it was Bernie's side that was cheating.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)taken before the elections.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Apples and oranges.
Beowulf
(761 posts)used them to project winners in US elections. They got so good at it, they could project winners before the polls even closed. The UN and other agencies that monitored elections used them to tell if election fraud was occurring. Then suddenly in 2000 and in 2004 we were told exit polls no longer could be trusted. Yeah, right! Peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining ain't going to work.
Also, nice job conflating two different kinds of polls. Exit polls sample actual voters. The kind Bernie outperformed sampled likely voters.
Karl Rove couldn't have done you better.
creeksneakers2
(7,472 posts)Are exit polls always right?
No. In fact, there are some particular challenges that exit polls have faced for the last several elections, that they still haven't found a way to work out:
Early voters. The phone poll for early voters is a new addition to the exit poll, and it's not clear that the kinks have been worked out yet. It runs into the problems any phone poll has namely, that it's difficult to poll people who only have mobile phones. Furthermore, the exit pollsters don't typically do early-vote polling in every state; in 2012, only 15 states got early-vote polling.
No exit poll interviewer here. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)
Small groups. Like any poll, the smaller a sample size is, the less likely it is to be representative. So the exit poll is pretty reliable when it comes to large demographics (men, women, Democrats, Republicans) but gets less reliable when it gets to small demographics (young voters, Jewish voters).
Voters of color. In addition to the general problems with smaller voting demographics, analysts believe that the exit poll has a tendency to oversample a particular kind of voter of color the kind who lives in majority-white areas.
Here's the logic. Even though the public doesn't know exactly how the exit poll chooses where to go, it's possible to make some educated guesses. The exit poll is trying to predict the margin of victory for one candidate over another across the state. So when it decides which polling places to put interviewers outside of, it's reasonable to assume that it's choosing lots of swing precincts precincts that are harder to predict and likely to affect the outcome. Those are going to be largely white precincts.
Alternatively, says Matt Barreto of Latino Decisions, exit pollsters might choose a precinct as a benchmark based on the last cycle. For example, if a precinct voted for the Democratic Senator 70 percent to 30 percent in 2008, the pollster might choose to put an exit-poll interviewer at that precinct to see if the Democrat's getting less than 70 percent of the vote this time around. But they're not necessarily paying attention to the racial makeup of those precincts.
Here's why this is a problem: the voters of color pollsters run into in majority-white precincts might not be representative of the voters of color across the state. In particular, according to Latino Decisions, voters of color living among whites are "more assimilated, better educated, higher income, and more conservative than other minority voters."
Check out the difference between the percent of nonwhite voters who had a college degree in 2010, according to the US Census vs. the exit poll:
Education level nonwhite voters exit polls
And the problem's even worse for Latino voters, because exit polls are almost never offered in Spanish even though over a quarter of Latino voters prefer Spanish to English. So the exit polls oversample English-speaking Latinos.
All of these issues together mean that the exit polls sometimes think that Latino voters are much more favorable to Republicans than they actually are. In 2010, for example, Harry Reid won reelection to the Senate by turning out Latinos to vote against his Republican challenger, Sharron Angle, who was running as a hardcore immigration hawk. But according to the exit polls, 30 percent of Nevada Latinos voted for Angle many more than voted for John McCain for president in 2008. (When the official vote tallies came out, it became clear that over 90 percent of Latinos had voted for Reid.)
Nihil
(13,508 posts)... is that independent electoral monitors are not allowed in the USA ...
If they were, several elections since 2000 would have been invalidated.
Laser102
(816 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)As a former host of LBN, would you have allowed this primary-oriented OP, if it involved a "blast" from Clinton directed at Sanders instead? I think not.
You, who supposedly value DU so much, should NOT flout the spirit of its rules in such a base way.
You should self-delete and re-post to GD-P, if you have any integrity left.
Please see this post as well:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141457035#post25
Omaha Steve
(99,493 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Like I said, as one of the "pillars" of DU, we might have expected better than this from you. Very disappointing and revealing.
Hope it's worth throwing over your integrity for an ephemeral spot on the homepage "trending list".
Omaha Steve
(99,493 posts)Or this about 1 delegate with 2 duplicates in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141453770
Or this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141453570
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1453436
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1453430
Or: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141452841
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141452686
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141452931
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1451358
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141451295
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141451273
Locked: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141450614
I think you get the idea. It seems Nevada was news worthy to Clinton supporters. This is about Nevada too.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)the rule should apply to all sides, no matter who's doing the posting.
As for that pile of links you threw at me, whether those OPs are or are not locked is NOT my call.
I AM NOT A HOST AND I HAVE NO SAY.
YOU ARE (or have been) A HOST, and should therefore set the example for best practice.
Or, at the very least, you should obey the standing rules in order to attempt (against increasing odds) to maintain the integrity and perennity of DU.
riversedge
(70,077 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Omaha Steve must have locked half a dozen of my OPs for being "off-topic". Guess it depends on who's talking.
riversedge
(70,077 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,493 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Thanks for posting it, please leave it. This is an important development to the escalation of the already simmering hostilities between DNC head Shultz and the Sanders campaign. Not to mention her disdain for some popular policies held by Democrats of all stripes.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)She is not a good poster person for a successful Democratic party. Now she's making it about her and Secretary Clinton vs. the Sanders campaign. The Clinton campaign isn't helped by the association, not at this moment in time.
By all means continue, Representative Shultz; upcoming states in the primaries will no doubt be moved by your disdain for the Sanders campaign, and those voters supporting it.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)BunkieBandit
(82 posts)I feel dirty and feel like something of mine has been violated. I dunno. Is this the new norm to be expected every election cycle?
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I guess DWS, Boxer and Hillary want to emulate that strategy. It's pathetic and at this point Hillary has totally lost the under 30 vote. It doesnt matter whether we agree or not or what we here do or dont support...what matters is how the GENERAL ELECTORATE will vote and Hillary has already botched it. Sanders has a MUCH BETTER chance of winning. ALL POLLS VERIFY THIS FACT. Please persuade me polls dont matter after telling me for 2 years they are all that matter. Hillary's negatives are IMMOVABLE. I will blame her for a Trump victory you better believe it.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)It makes me proud to be a Democrat when I see such behavior.
Thank you for standing up to the bullies, and cheaters I might add.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)HC came, she saw, and Bernie is still breathing
I guess she can't celebrate any violence in this case
wisteria
(19,581 posts)It has been hard fought, but he can't make up the differences. He has given it his all, and he will change the discussion and path of our party for a long time. He should be proud. No one has cheated, rules are rules. Hillary lost in 2008 playing by these same rules. Continuing the blame game will not get anyone anywhere.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Will have the delegates. Then it's time to make their pitch to the super delegates. Why is this so dang hard to understand?
Zorro
(15,722 posts)zalinda
(5,621 posts)Hillary hasn't talked about the issues, like never. She says something and then changes her mind. Oh, wait did she say anything? I can't tell, she speaks around a subject like she has something to hide.
Z
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Last edited Fri May 20, 2016, 03:02 PM - Edit history (2)
and also an Oval Office, now
libodem
(19,288 posts)A Coronation was in order. There is no competition in democracy. The people have nothing to do with it. What do you think this is? Some kinda one party Communist one party system?
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)She can't even hide it. Too many people hate her. What a candidate lol. Most liberals can't stand her. Great solution to winning. The leadership is so stupid. Ego over reality.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)When Cuomo on CNN asked she knew the answer. Her overlords on Wall St and the National Security Establishment would never allow it. Hillary has to maintain wars at home against average Americans with the Drug War and in the Middle East enriching weapons manufacturers. What a joke she is against guns. My mind is blown that people who support her don't see the shame in it. Fine. Let's hold them responsible later.
JCMach1
(27,553 posts)as a Chair in recent memory?
Wednesdays
(17,311 posts)There's either a flaw in the photo, or she forgot to wipe off some toothpaste.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
MADem
(135,425 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Guess it matters who you are, as much as what you post.
Sid
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Salon is so stupid, I unfollowed it on freakin' Facebook because cat videos were more enlightening than some of the crap they post.