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Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
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[+] -12 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Even 2016 was pretty fair. The nomination went to the person with the most votes and the majority of the non-super delegates. Bernie lost because people didn't want to vote for him because of a variety of reasons but not because the primary wasn't "fair". If more people voted for him he would have won.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    No, Bernie had the nom stolen by Hillary and DWS via corrupt back room dealings and superdelegate shenanigans. Everyone was voting Bernie and for the corporate elite that was a problem. They solved it by ratfucking the primaries, a tried and true dem tactic.

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Ah yes, super delegate shenanigans like the majority going to the candidate who had over 3 million more votes than the other. The only way Bernie could have won with super delegates is if he got almost all of them. And if he did then the candidate who got 3 million less votes would have won the nomination and we would still be facing people saying the democratic primaries aren't "fair".

    Now don't get me wrong, DWS was biased as fuck. But if the voters simply turned out and voted for Bernie then bias wouldn't have mattered. The RNC was biased towards Jeb bush and Ted Cruz but you know how that turned out.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    In the 2016 WV Democrat Primary, Bernie won every single county, 40k more votes than Clinton, but Clinton won the state. Your math isn't mathing.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Nope Bernie won the state. He won and got 18 delegates and Clinton got 11. But then at the convention Clinton got the 8 super delegates from the state which put her at 19 delegates to Bernie's 18 but Bernie still won the state. Here's my source.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    So do votes count towards winning or do delegates? Cause 19 sounds more than 18 to me.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    You win the majority of the delegates that were up during the primary by voting in the primary. Which Bernie did. But when the convention rolled around and Hillary was 3 million votes ahead of Bernie country wide and significantly closer to the nomination delegate threshold, the super delegates came into play to decide things. But that doesn't change that Bernie won the state. Those 8 super delegates are from West Virginia but they were only allocated at all because neither Bernie nor Hillary had reached the delegate threshold needed to win the nomination.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I honestly can't believe you're making the case that Bernie won 18-19. I don't even know how to argue that, and it's the first time I've ever heard it.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This seems to be a complete misunderstanding of how the primary system works. I am saying that Bernie won West Virginia and got the majority of those delegates that could be won that day. That is winning the state. The super delegates get lumped in but they aren't a part of the same process. Bernie won WV because he got the most votes even if he didn't get the super delegates he still won the state. You could literally look at my source I provided and you'd see that he won.

    I'd recommend separating the super delegates from the situation and look at it just for what the delegates were up at the time of the vote. Thats what determines who won the state.

    Even better, just look around this wikipedia article to see who won what states and everything. It's all right there. I'm just repeating the literal reality of how it went down.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I think @DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com’s point is that if one doesn’t receive the most votes from the State when it’s all said and one they didn’t really “win” that State. They may have gotten more voter votes, but the they didn’t win the overall vote count from the State (voter+superdelegate) so it’s not really a “win” Bernie took 2nd in WV votes that mattered.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    So Clinton got more total delegates if you just separate the vote count from the equation? Is that what you're telling me. Because that's literally what I'm trying to say to you. That votes don't matter(or at least didn't in the 2016 dem primary) and even if a candidate wins 100% of the counties in a state, they can still lose in the thing that matters, delegates.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Bernie lost because people didn't want to vote for him because of a variety of reasons but not because the primary wasn't "fair". If more people voted for him he would have won.

    Uh oh

    (I agree, although DWS really screwed up everything including discussing this)

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  • [+] -6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah this is something that really bothers me about my fellow leftists and is pure revisionism about the 2016 primary. Bernie lost fair and square and all we had to do to make sure that didn't happen was get more people to vote for him. But according to many people on here if the candidate fails to win then it's their sole fault because they couldn't convince voters to go with them. But I guess that doesn't apply to Bernie.

    Also I hate how DWS screwed up talking about this all because she was biased as fuck towards Clinton. Her bias wouldn't have mattered if more people had voted for Bernie but her having a bias at all must mean Bernie was cheated out of the nomination.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I think where a lot of this comes from is that HRC had locked in the vast majority of the superdelegates right from the start. The media consistently represented Bernie as having no chance to win, due to all the superdelegates being in the bag for Clinton, regardless of how people voted. This depressed progressive turnout, as a Clinton victory was apparently a foregone conclusion. Absent the superdelegate system, and the lopsided media coverage it engendered, many would argue the result would have been different. Obviously, there's no way of knowing at this point, but it's not as if these claims have no basis in reality.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    See now that's an actual conversation to have! Not saying that Clinton cheated and/or was always going to be the candidate but that how the media represented the race depressed turnout. That's a thing that continues to happen from the media trying to suppress progressive turnout and it often works. But those things still don't change that if those progressives hadn't been so easily suppressed and had continued to go out and fight and vote regardless of what the media said, just like trump voters did, then Bernie would have won the primary and the super delegates wouldn't have mattered. And then likely would have won versus Trump, in my opinion.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Does this mean if Trump enforces voting via Real ID, and millions of people get removed from their right to vote, and Trump wins in '28, that more people should have voted for Democrats or that Trump shouldn't have purged the voter rolls of as many people as possible that wouldn't vote for him?

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