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2016 Postmortem

tritsofme

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13. No, but this incident illustrates perfectly why caucuses should be totally banned starting in 2020.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 08:15 PM

May 2016

Caucuses are unrepresentative and undemocratic, they do not allow a secret ballot, and disenfranchise huge numbers especially working people. This is not an acceptable method for choosing a Democratic nominee. All states should hold primary elections.

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Will Bernie give back delegates to conform to Washington primary vote totals? Clinton 54% [View all] Bill USA May 2016 OP

bernie and his crowd only believe in the will of the people when it benefits THEM nt msongs May 2016 #1

Why should he? That wasn't how the Washington vote was set-up. highprincipleswork May 2016 #2

This mythology May 2016 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #32

Nope, what part of this primary is non binding did you miss nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #3

Clinton and her party machine were the only players in the beauty contest so NO. Skwmom May 2016 #4

Lol. ... Ridiculous! KPN May 2016 #5

Washington primary votes are 'artificial' ... a new kind of vote suppression? . if they're not 4 our Bill USA May 2016 #7

Wow???? Really??? Did it count as a primary vote??? KPN May 2016 #19

You really should read the OP before commenting....see excerpt: Bill USA May 2016 #24

Lol!!! I did. You really should KPN May 2016 #30

Of course he won't, but remember to cite this the next time a Sandersfan screams about Tarc May 2016 #6

The State result is determined by the caucus, that's the case because the Democratic Party Bluenorthwest May 2016 #12

The point was missed, I believe Tarc May 2016 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #8

The rules are rigged against Hillary. woolldog May 2016 #9

Um, no. They are just the rules we all agreed to. nt silvershadow May 2016 #16

The Democratic Party sued the State of Washington to demand they be allowed to use a caucus Bluenorthwest May 2016 #10

If you are going to complain that "the rules are the rules," then you can't really complain when the BzaDem May 2016 #11

No, but this incident illustrates perfectly why caucuses should be totally banned starting in 2020. tritsofme May 2016 #13

Yup. Agschmid May 2016 #18

Absolutely. It's staggering just looking at the numbers for Washington: R B Garr May 2016 #23

No. It's non-binding Commander Keen May 2016 #17

Sure. Of course, tho, this is about Bernie's principles! Hortensis May 2016 #29

Interesting! He definitely should give them back to conform to the will of the people! R B Garr May 2016 #20

Primaries are a lot easier to rig than caucuses Time for change May 2016 #21

You are assuming that the WA primary would have the same results if it was binding. Vattel May 2016 #22

so you want to replace counts of actual people with nonbinding numbers from hackable machines? GreatGazoo May 2016 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author NowSam May 2016 #26

This is old and tired aspirant May 2016 #27

Google "Non-binding primary" there, Einstein. 99Forever May 2016 #28

Exhibition games don't count. Only the real ones. ThePhilosopher04 May 2016 #31