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Justan Olphart[_2_]

On 2/11/2016 11:59 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:38:37 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 06:51:04 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:00 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

So, who won the NH Democratic primary? One would think that Bernie won,
having received 60 percent of the vote.

Not so, it seems. The DNC doesn't want Bernie so they have
manipulated the delegate count by apply their "super delegates" votes
in favor of Hillary. Basically, the DNC is saying, "Screw you voters
... *we* will decide who becomes the Democratic nominee."

What is a "superdelegate" you ask?

Superdelegates are political insiders. They consist of state officials,
national officials, Democratic (in this case) Committee members and
others with "special" interests in a specific candidate.
They can cast their vote any way they want to regardless of who wins the
popular vote.

A Democratic candidate needs 2,382 total delegates to win the
nomination. Of those, 712 are superdelegates. Hillary, despite a
virtual tie with Sanders in Iowa and a major popular vote loss in NH,
still is far ahead of Sanders in committed delegates. She currently has
394 delegates compared to 44 for Bernie. 360 of Hillary's delegates are
"superdelegates".

This is a joke and a mockery of what are supposed to be elections
determined by voters. The DNC will decide who their candidate is.

"Superdelegates" have long been a contentious issue within the party,
and came about to help prevent the nomination of a candidate who might
have been popular but believed to be an impending disaster in the
electoral college. I'm not sure how significant superdelegate status is
these days because of changes in the rules, but superdelegates still
have some status.

Too bad the GOP hasn't some way to at least steer its nominating
processes, considering the party's likely POTUS candidate will be an
absolutely crazy mutt.

You mean it's too bad the GOP doesn't have some way of bypassing elections by the
voters?

I guess you'd consider that 'playing fair', eh Krause?

This is just another reason why I refuse to use the work "democratic"
to refer to the democrat party.
They have no respect for the votes of the populace and that is by
definition not "democratic".
The GOP uses the vote count to allocate delegates and the only "super
delegates" are the local party heads (2 or 3 per state).
They can't overturn a landslide like the democrat party did in New
Hampshire.

With respect to dirty and slimy politics, do you think the GOP even
comes a distant 2nd to the Democratic party?