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Maybe hold a fucking primary with debates.
Biden is the least popular president running for reelection since we've had polling.
And he's helping commit a genocide that looks like it made it impossible to win the Midwest swing States.
If this is the most important election in our lifetimes to win, then run a fucking primary!
Who do you suggest then?
A straw man that that is well versed in the Appeal to Authority Fallacy
A Democratic primary so that the Democratic voters can choose who they want to run. That's what I suggest. You know, an actual democratic process to determine who the Democratic voters would like to field.
You do realize how fucking authoritarian and undemocratic the Democratic party is being, right?
All to nominate basically the only person who wouldn't win against Trump.
"The most important election of our lifetime" rheoteric does not match with how the Democratic party leaders are treating this election.
And not a bit of that has anything to do with why New Hampshire's delegates won't count or why he didn't register there. It's solely about the date of the fucking primary.
"The civil war was about States rights..."
Uh huh. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Biden historically performs horribly in New Hampshire.
It also has nothing to do with the momentum of unlikely campaign wins in New Hampshire allowing them to become likely.
If New Hampshire hadn't been first, we would never had Obama, we'd have had Clinton in 2008.
Why did the other five States remove all other Democratic candidates from the Democratic primary ballots again?
And it's the party's right to choose a state that isn't 93% white to hold their first primary. That's the reason they wanted to change it, so maybe a state that's more representative of the party and of POC go first.
You're also really reading a lot into my comment which is just about NH creating this clusterfuck. They could have gone second, and okay maybe Biden would've done poorly there and the delegates would actually matter. Instead the state government chose this.
Which is honestly a shame, because I'm not itching for another 4 years of aiding, abetting, or at least acquiescing to a genocide.
That's the OFFICIAL reason. The REAL reasons are
A: South Carolina is a lot more conservative, which is better for their favorite candidates such as Biden and
B: they owe conservative member of the DNC leadership/the Representative from PHRMA Jim Clyburn for almost single-handedly saving the Biden campaign with his well-timed endorsement of the most conservative candidate in the race.
... Uh huh.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the reasons I outlined above that resulted in the first black president.
I'm also sure the other five States that removed everyone from the ballot except Biden is completely unrelated.
Biden losses against Trump.
This shit of trying to excuse the Democratic party of doing everything it can to prevent Biden from having to face even the appearance of Democratic competition is the best thing to do if you want Trump to be reelected.
There’s a state law that requires the Secretary of State to schedule the primaries before any other state’s primaries. The state law is in conflict with the national party committee’s policy, but ultimately the party who gets to decide who to seat at the convention. It doesn’t matter too much this year with an incumbent president, but things will come to a head next election cycle.
Yeah, that’s it in a nutshell, it’s another states rights vs national primacy debate, it’s just the DNC instead of the federal government this time.
That's likely what will happen and the DNC would be stupid not to accept the will of NH's voters. The interesting part is that NH independents can vote in either primary. So many (myself included) are considering voting in the republican primary to take votes away from trump.