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In reply to the discussion: Dem super delegate, in room full of health insurance execs, laughs off prospect of single payer [View all]murielm99
(30,733 posts)13. If we don't have super delegates,
we end up with candidates like McGovern, who get beaten in a landslide. We need our party leaders to be involved. We need closed primaries, and an end to caucuses. Anything else is an invitation to weaken our party from within.
The repiggies wish they had super delegates. They would not have been stuck with 45 as their nominee if they had had them. And don't kid yourself: he will destroy their party.
I find it naive in the extreme to think that we should do away with super delegates. These are people who have earned their leadership roles. And, as I have stated in another post, I find the source of this story extremely dubious.
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Dem super delegate, in room full of health insurance execs, laughs off prospect of single payer [View all]
kristopher
Jul 2017
OP
Does "quality" mean my healthcare is better just because someone poorer than me can't get it?
ck4829
Jul 2017
#1
We need to take advantage of our political awakening under the Trump era and not mess
Dustlawyer
Jul 2017
#7
Can you explain what the "corporatization of the Democratic Party" because I do not know
pirateshipdude
Jul 2017
#10
Posts like the OP should be automatically deleted when using the INtercept IMO
joeybee12
Jul 2017
#27
The whole idea of superdelegates is undemocratic. In the last election, for example, there were
Vinca
Jul 2017
#16
Isn't the Intercept the work of Glenn Greenwald who has hated Democrats for years?
George II
Jul 2017
#14