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democrattotheend's JournalHillary Supporters: How many of you were PUMA's?
I have said many times that I am committed to supporting Hillary if she is the nominee. However, I find it counterproductive and kind of ironic how Hillary supporters are already demanding loyalty oaths and telling Bernie supporters they will be to blame if Trump wins.
So, I am curious, for all the Hillary supporters who are acting like it's already over and demanding our loyalty, can I assume that all of you voted for Obama both times and committed to doing so even before Hillary conceded? Can we assume that all of you vocally denounced the PUMA's in 2008?
Rubio Beats Kasich in DC Republican Convention
Source: Washington Post
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida edged out Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Saturday’s Republican convention, where voters waited in line as long as three hours to cast ballots.
Many of them called it one of the most significant Republican primaries here in years.
Rubio got 10 of the 19 delegates, and Kasich got nine. The others on the ballot failed to meet the threshold for delegate allocation, said Patrick Mara, executive director of the D.C. Republican Party.
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Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas trailed by substantial margins. Trump got 13.8 percent of the votes and Cruz 12.4 percent.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rubio-beats-kasich-in-dc-republican-convention/2016/03/13/1e8a36b4-e941-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
How the hell could the lines be 3 hours long? There are so few Republicans in DC, probably not more than 100 per precinct.
Can someone explain what happened in Iowa yesterday?
There has been a lot of fighting about this, but in all the arguing the basics of what happened have gotten lost. I vaguely remember reading about the second level of caucuses in 2008, but my memory is a little sketchy on how it works.
Can someone please explain:
1) How is it that, if Hillary had more votes in Polk County on February 1, Bernie ended up with more delegates at the second level caucuses? Does this mean that people who caucused for Hillary on February 1 ended up not being represented yesterday, or were the counts wrong on February 1?
2) What exactly did the Clinton delegates do yesterday that was unseemly or undemocratic? Were they just trying to make sure that the people who voted for Clinton on February 1 were properly represented, or did it go beyond that?
It would be helpful if someone from Iowa or who knows more about the second and third level caucuses could explain how it works.
Politico: Obama sees his reluctance to endorse as good thing for Democratic Party
I don't know why he is being accused of foot-dragging. I thought it was customary for a sitting president to remain publicly neutral until the primary is officially or mostly wrapped up.
President Barack Obama isn't in any rush to endorse in the Democratic race, and he thinks his foot-dragging may be helping Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that Obama hasn't ruled out endorsing, but that Obama himself was served well by a drawn-out primary race eight years ago.
"The Democratic candidates are likely to benefit from having a longer-than-expected campaign. That certainly was true when he ran in 2008,” Earnest said.
He added that the extra months of battling Clinton gave Obama and the party the chance to build a campaign apparatus in states where Democrats had not previously been competitive during a general election. He cited Indiana — a state a Democrat hadn’t won in decades before Obama did in 2008 — as an example.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/barack-obama-democratic-endorsement-220507
Michigan: Sanders just took the lead in Genesee County, where Flint is
Clinton was up big there but now Sanders is winning it. Do we know if some/all of the votes in are from Flint itself?
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