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Bernie Sanders, the Teflon Candidate, Faces Sudden New TestsThe Vermont senator has long brushed off political vulnerabilities and evaded attacks from rivals. But the spotlight on his front-runner status and possible Russian interference could pose challenges.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1231062038979411970https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1231062039617064960absolute B E A S T
just need a kremlin asset on the libertarian ticket too
https://twitter.com/andrewperezdc/status/1231240162509762560Turd Way tries to strike again.
majority bonus rules are what allowed Mussolini to consolidate power. in the age of trump we should never let demagogues convince us to abandon democracy - even left leaning ones
The election was characterized by changes in the electoral law. Even if the general structure remained uncorrupted, the government introduced a superbonus of two thirds of seats in the House for the coalition which would obtain at-large the absolute majority of votes. The change was hugely opposed by the opposition parties as well as the smaller DC coalition partners, which had no realistic chances of success. The new law was called Scam Law by its detractors,[3] including some dissidents of minor government parties who founded special opposition groups to deny the artificial landslide to the Christian Democracy.
The complaint campaign of the oppositions against the Scam Law reached its goal. The Centrist coalition (DC, PSDI, PLI, PRI, SVP, PSAZ) won 49.9% of the national vote, coming just a few thousand votes short of the threshold for a two-thirds majority.
Quote from: Mandark on February 22, 2020, 12:26:25 PMSpeaking of delegate shenanigans, can anybody point to any reporting during the stretch in 2016 when the Sanders campaign was publicly trying to flip the superdelegates?I don't remember anything specific but I know that it happened in the first week of June... and to be honest it always seemed more like vague suggestions about how the process could go in their favor, not a real attempt. Because Sanders never had the party connections or leverage necessary to even try something like that.
Speaking of delegate shenanigans, can anybody point to any reporting during the stretch in 2016 when the Sanders campaign was publicly trying to flip the superdelegates?
Speaking of delegate shenanigans, can anybody point to any reporting during the stretch in 2016 when the Sanders campaign was publicly trying to flip the superdelegates?I'm curious whether that was an actual effort or if it was a pretense to delay dropping out for other reasons.
Despite badly lagging in the delegate count, Bernie Sanders' campaign manager told NPR the campaign believes Sanders can and will be the Democratic nominee by winning over superdelegates at the 11th hour."If we can substantially close the gap between Secretary Clinton and Sen. Sanders in terms of pledged delegates," Jeff Weaver told NPR's All Things Considered, "he can go into the convention with a substantial momentum from having won the vast, vast majority of states at the end of the process."It's a sharp contrast from earlier in the campaign when Sanders supporters called superdelegates "undemocratic" and petitioned for them to support the candidate who has the most votes by the Democratic convention this July."When they get to the convention," Weaver continued, "nobody has the delegates to win with pledged delegates. It's going to be the superdelegates who are going to have to decide this."
"Now we can argue about the merits of having superdelegates," Weaver continued, "but we do have them. And if their role is just to rubber-stamp the pledged-delegate count then they really aren't needed. They're supposed to exercise independent judgment about who they think can lead the party forward to victory."Weaver added that superdelegates don't vote until they actually go to the convention, and he considers their allegiances as movable as poll numbers.If by the convention Sanders has "substantial momentum" and has substantially "closed the gap" in pledged delegates, Weaver said, "I think there's a strong argument to be made to superdelegates that they should take another look."
What leverage would the Sanders campaign have to strong arm the DNC and superdelegates? Weren't they behind by more than the superdelegates?edit: nope, superdelegates were the difference, but Bernie needed nearly ALL of them to win, so they likely wanted an abstain on the first ballot
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/23/opinion/international-world/centrists-democracy.html
10am, time to get out of bed and go vote for Elizabeth Ann Warren
10am, time to get out of bed and go vote for our insurance, health insurance thing
I held up the line flirting with my check-in volunteerShe's also my precinct captain so I'm gonna see if I can get her number by the end of the day
shosta is a terrible flirt fyi
There are a bunch of black Pete voters here
https://twitter.com/ASegals/status/1230857337184903170
Bernie Sanders went ballistic at NBC and MSNBC execs ahead of the Democratic debate this week — jabbing one top TV exec repeatedly in the face with his finger and accusing the networks of offensive negative coverage.Surging Sanders stormed through the walk-through for the Las Vegas debate, singling out one top producer at the end and aggressively sticking his finger in his face. One shocked witness said, “Bernie marched right up to NBC and MSNBC’s head of creative production and began jabbing his finger right in his face, yelling, ‘Your coverage of my campaign is not fair . . . Your questions tonight are not going to be fair to me.’ ”Sanders did not hold back as he continued to rant about MSNBC coverage. According to the witness, “The NBC exec told Sanders he would be treated fairly.”A separate insider confirmed the confrontation, saying Sanders was so steamed he also sparred with MSNBC boss Phil Griffin outside the green room moments before the debate began. “Sen. Sanders stated, ‘Phil, your network has not been playing a fair role in this campaign. I am upset. Is anything going to change? . . . I hope you will do better.’ ”
Todd was also tackled by seething Sanders onstage after the debate: “I do not appreciate your comment about my supporters,” adding the Holocaust reference was “offensive.”Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir has said that even Fox News has been “more fair than MSNBC . . . which . . . is constantly undermining the Bernie Sanders campaign.” He told Page Six on Friday, “MSNBC has not been fair to our campaign. Their coverage is condescending on a daily basis. No other campaign gets such negative coverage. Enough is enough.”
My fucking bum of a dad didn't even show up
up to Chris Matthews saying he's going to fucking kill people if he gets elected.
Everyone else should retire and support the one true unity candidate
first alignment: Bernie got 20 people out of 32Biden: 2Warren: 4Pete: 5Yang: 1
Quote from: naff on February 22, 2020, 08:20:56 AM https://twitter.com/ASegals/status/1230857337184903170This is genuinely unnerving.
Bernie got 20 people out of 32
After early votes, the only viable groups are Bernie and Liz
Yang dropped out eleven days ago, Cindi
