Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumWaPo: Bernie Sanders’s Democratic Party reforms focus on things that would’ve helped BS win
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/15/bernie-sanderss-democratic-party-reforms-focus-on-things-that-wouldve-helped-bernie-sanders-win/?postshare=9331466000216234&tid=ss_tw1. Get new leadership at the Democratic National Committee.
2. Approve "the most progressive platform ever passed" at the Democratic National Convention in July.
3. Enact "real electoral reform" within the Democratic Party.
4. Get rid of superdelegates
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From the standpoint of the party, though, Sanders's proposal would only make the problem worse. Allowing non-Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary might get voters invested in the candidate they support but it wouldn't get them invested in the party. The party wants to identify people whom it can reliably turn out to vote in important contests; allowing people to vote in Democratic primaries without being Democrats doesn't help them with that identification. What's more, it doesn't build loyalty to the ticket. Democrats tend to vote for Democrats. Independents votes for ... whomever. (Although in practice they vote for the party with which they privately align themselves, outside of the pesky gaze of Wasserman Schultz.)
It's not weird to suggest that more people should get to vote in elections. It's somewhat weird to suggest that the party has a duty to let non-members help pick its nominee. It's very weird to suggest that the Democratic Party would want to intentionally weaken itself
It goes on and touches on why BS did not ask for the end of caucuses!
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)Follow the will of the people unless the will of the people favors my opponent. Then, never mind.
Frances
(8,578 posts)He has not played his hand well.
3 of the 4 demands on the list are things that would have helped Bernie in the primaries. Only 1 is about progressive reform and it gives absolutely no information about what that reform is.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Things like same day registration, education about voting. You know everything for Independents.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)This article spells it out, of course, but when the only things the Sanders campaign ever complains about are the situations that didn't go their way, it couldn't be more obvious.
Similarly, the "let everyone vote to bring more Dems into the party" approach never made the least bit of sense. If you don't require people to change party affiliation to vote in your own primary, they have no motivation to change parties. That argument always made the point opposite of the one it was apparently intended to make.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,919 posts)SharonClark
(10,310 posts)Revolutions always end up being about the revolutionaries trying to gain power and becoming power hungry themselves.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)and glasses can ever win a Democratic primary!
caquillo
(521 posts)I believe our last bald president was Gerald Ford (1974-1977), and before him Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961).
That said, this 'tradition' doesn't bode well for either Sanders or Trump.
William769
(55,814 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,919 posts)They make sure we don't nominate gadflies like Donald Trump.
MattP
(3,304 posts)Hey Bernie you want a movement stop by the bakery and buy a bran muffin.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)A freaking ton, I bet. Wow! And the comments. They sound so rational. I loved the one who explained the difference between being an involved Dem for 40 years and an Independent wanting to "reform" the Dem Party.
eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)Exactly. Bernie's thinking less about "reform" and more about weakening.
Just leave him by the wayside he has chosen and move on to victory in November!