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Democratic Candidates for POTUS, 2016 edition

Wakeforest22890 said:
Sanders will "suspend his campaign" the night of the last primary. He said from the jump that he was running for everyone, not just so some states/people could vote for him and he planned to stay in it until the end. He won't go to the convention, but he will stay in until all states have voted.
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Link? Or is this your speculation.
 
It's speculation by me that he will do it the last night of the primary. He has said during speeches a couple times (I'll try to find a link) that he is running for president of the United States, not president of some early primary states.
 
He was on NPR this morning and said all the right things. He thinks he will be a better president than Hilary, but that both of them are better that Trump.
 
And Clinton stayed in the 2008 election until June 8, so I guess there is still nothing to see here?
 
cville deac said:
There is nothing to see, but I have faith in your ability to find a conspiracy somewhere.
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Weren't you pushing the Clinton fundraises for downstream Dem candidates, but Bernie doesn't talking point just a week ago?

ETA: Oh, and there still is nothing to see regarding Sanders's campaign. I mean that genuinely and that's been my position from the beginning. That's because he'd have to do quite a bit to top Clinton's deplorable 2008 strategy/rhetoric against Obama.
 
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I also love it how institutionalized voter suppression = conspiracy theory. You should care about Democracy, regardless of whether it works for or against your candidate. Taking the Democratic process for granted is how the RNC got a moron like Trump as a party nominee. It'll be interesting to see how this election influences future Democratic Party voting bases.
 
What's the institutionalized voter suppression you're talking about? The New York stuff or the Super Delegate setup?
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
What's the institutionalized voter suppression you're talking about? The New York stuff or the Super Delegate setup?
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New York and Arizona, mainly. Super delegates are pretty stupid, but they have been around for awhile and, as the Pub side of things has shown, actually serve a purpose. I'd be cool with phasing them out, but I'm referring to the actual voter suppression that happened in AZ and NY, which - after looking at exit poll data - probably screwed Clinton and Sanders pretty equally.
 
Lol that would pass for an onion article with zero revisions.
 
That bottom person is spot on. This guy will turn this into a persecution issue and ask for money and he will raise a decent chunk of change.
 
Have Hillary and her supporters been cheating? Tim Robbins thinks so
In the 2008 New York primary Barack Obama tallied no votes in Harlem, a predominantly African American district. In fact 80 election districts, many heavily African American in demographics, initially reported ZERO votes for Obama (New York Times). In this case, embarrassed city officials reviewed the tallied votes and found several inaccuracies. The votes were recounted, still favoring Sen. Clinton, often by an extremely narrow margin. The Board of Elections blamed these inaccuracies on “human error.” Was anyone called to task for it? Was the person responsible for that fired? No. Nothing was done.

So forgive me for having doubts about the recent numbers in the New York primary. I noticed a huge discrepancy between the CNN exit polls, which had Hillary up by 4 percent, and the end results that had her up 16 percent. There was a 7.8 percent discrepancy in Massachusetts and in the Ohio primary a 10 percent discrepancy. The margin of error on exit polls is 4 percent.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-robbins/fix-our-election-system_b_9847102.html
 
Tim Robbins continues to peddle conspiracy theory nonsense.
 
In other news...One person certainly on Clinton's short list for VP is Sen. Tim Kaine (DVA). Not only is Kaine a senator from a key swing state, but he was formerly governor of Virginia and also chairman of the DNC. That gives him plenty of political experience as well as executive experience. A strong factor in Kaine's favor is that his election as Vice President would not cost the Democrats a Senate seat, as the election of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) would. The reason is that the governor of Virginia is Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA), a close personal friend and political ally of the Clintons. He is term limited as governor and would almost certainly appoint himself to Kaine's Senate seat. Furthermore, his resignation as governor would promote Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) to governor and give him a leg up in the 2017 gubernatorial race. Thus, the choice of Kaine would give Clinton a running mate who could help in Virginia and neighboring North Carolina, hold the Senate seat, and help the Democrats hang onto the governor's mansion. (V)
 
Kaine is too conservative. She needs to take someone with liberal chops as a nod to the Sanders supporters.
 
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