2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocrats, Not Republicans, May Be On Verge Of Unraveling
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Contentious supporters of the two rivals for the Democratic nomination turned the selection of Nevadas national delegates this weekend into a virtual battlefield, with the chairman gaveling the proceeding to a peremptory close and fleeing the stage while armed guards cleared the meeting venue.
The spectacle of Democratic Party officials railroading through a ruling favorable to Hillary Clinton while denying certification to some 58 Bernie Sanders delegates to the state convention comes on top of charges that caucuses and primary votes around the country have been manipulated to beef up Clintons much-touted lead in national delegates.
Democrats have reason to worry that similar chaos could overtake a contested national convention in July as the strong-arm tactics of party officials from Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on down provide little incentive for Sanders or his supporters to go quietly into the night.
In fact, as the federal investigation of Clintons use of a private server for official emails continues to loom over her campaign, Democrats are risking a perfect storm combining the chaos of their 1968 convention in Chicago and the creeping disclosure that overtook Richard Nixons Committee for the Re-Election of the President.
Nixon won re-election in 1972 in a landslide even though a relatively harmless-seeming dirty trick the break-in into DNC offices in the Watergate complex was the subject of investigative reporting by the Washington Post and other news media.
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Xyzse
(8,217 posts)msongs
(67,509 posts)final choice
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)You folks did that all by yourselves.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Can somebody please make at least an attempt at making arguments that aren't logical fallacies?
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)Duh.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)I'm not wrong either.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)Hillary is a poor candidate. With the weight of the entire dem and Corp establishment behind her she is barely winning. She has no one to blame but her imperial self.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)an election we should win easily wouldn't surprise me at all.
StarTrombone
(188 posts)And are now reconstituting in time for their convention and the general
The Democrats seem to be going in the opposite direction
Tell ya the truth I'm flashing back to McCarthy McGovern Humphrey LBJ and the summer of '68
And it's not just the old drugs and Ripple
Could be the blood pressure cholesterol and gout medication though I suppose
MisterP
(23,730 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)What a man.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)as to how weak she is as a candidate, But now we have seen the slow motion crack take a big leap forwards. I keep mentioning 1824 for a reason. It will be bumpy.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)and here we are with a corrupt, lying DINO being shoved down our throats by any means necessary, and with blatant cheating going on to give said horrible candidate her coronation, democracy be damned.