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2020-02-20 -Land of the Free

Is This Real Life? Washington Post Argues in Headline, ‘It's Time To Give the Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing the President‘

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Posted by charger 2020-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 That's the Shitshow, charger

Posted by Lex 2020-02-20 00:19|| 2020-02-20 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 It's part of the lefty journalism style sheet - when they lose elections, bang out a variety of 'It's Time To ...' columns, none of which will happen even in the wettest of their wet dreams, so they can better win the next one. Since they know they're in for a forty+ state ass-whupping this time around, they may as well start getting these columns out in advance.

Posted by Raj 2020-02-20 08:13|| 2020-02-20 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 WaPo Claims Elites Should Run Elections; Quietly Edits Article After Public Outrage Ensues

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-20 08:26|| 2020-02-20 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Let me guess - WaPo 'neglected' to mention the change in headline?

We need a far stronger word than scumbag to describe these people.

Posted by Raj 2020-02-20 08:45|| 2020-02-20 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 If you can't achieve a political outcome you desire, just script it

Posted by Lex 2020-02-20 08:54|| 2020-02-20 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Deep State failed disinformation probing attack. Nothing more.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-20 08:58|| 2020-02-20 08:58|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ clarifying, thanks.
The tally since 2016 must be >10,000 such probing attacks... seems they're extremely easy to execute, low cost, little risk

Posted by Lex 2020-02-20 09:04|| 2020-02-20 09:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Democracy dies in darkness as the WashPost smothers it with a pillow.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-20 09:25|| 2020-02-20 09:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm old enough to remember the days of smoke filled rooms. JFK only ran in a couple of primaries, party leaders made the choices.

The nominees then were certainly better than today's doofus collection. The hard part of returning to those days would be finding someplace where you could smoke a cigar.

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-20 10:34|| 2020-02-20 10:34|| Front Page Top

#10 perhaps the Democrats should examine the way nominations were handled in the old days.
The traditional way was that each state sent delegates to the party convention, some pledged to candidates, some not, as determined by each state's rules. In many states 'a favorite son' was nominated usually with little or no chance of being chosen as candidate, which meant that the delegates could vote, ultimately, however they pleased after the first ballot. Often no candidate had a majority of votes, which required a new vote, and there often were dozens of votes before agreement on a nominee occurred. When two candidates had between them most of the votes, but neither had a majority, the rivalry could be so bitter, that ultimately after many ballots, a third, compromise candidate was chosen.
Though conventions proceded at a snails pace, they were exciting because often nobody could predict the outcome until it happened.
Lately the conventions have been useless shows in which primaries determine everything long before them.
If Bernie gets lots of votes but no majority, swhich is quite possible, this will lead to something like the old system, and if it took many ballots to determine the winner it might be good for the Democrats and not horrible, because the convention would be important and interesting instead of mere nonsense.

Posted by daniel 2020-02-20 13:49|| 2020-02-20 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 At the primary level, the method a given political party uses to choose their candidate for president can be anything they please.

Certainly.

I just thought it was interesting that the "Let the people decide" party with its attacks on the Electoral College have no qualms about going in the opposite direction when it gives them their preferred outcome.

Which, of course, is what this is all about.

After all, Hillary was an EC enthusiast when she thought she would lose the popular vote, while winning most high population states.

Florida and successful vote fraud gave her the exact opposite of the outcome she was expecting and so she turned on a dime, like all principled lefties.

This associate prof from Marquette is simply Hildebeest writ small.

Posted by charger 2020-02-20 16:17|| 2020-02-20 16:17|| Front Page Top

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