Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on July 23, 2016, 09:31:51 PMThe biggest issue here is voter disenfranchisement. Bernie and Trump get the support they do because too many Americans feel the system is rigged. Stuff like this proves them right. It's hard to say what the fallout will be. Some may go and vote against Hillary just to show their displeasure. They may give up on the system entirely. Who knows?Voter disenfranchisement isn't the right word - that implies people are being prevented from voting. Voter dilution is a better choice; certain groups of people are discouraged, but not prevented.But yes, this isn't a shock
The biggest issue here is voter disenfranchisement. Bernie and Trump get the support they do because too many Americans feel the system is rigged. Stuff like this proves them right. It's hard to say what the fallout will be. Some may go and vote against Hillary just to show their displeasure. They may give up on the system entirely. Who knows?
Way to go, you posted in depth post primary break downs and a guy saying that if you include the super delegates they're less than 70 apart. That doesn't change the fact that the day to day reporting on the delegate counts had no mention of super delegates anywhere in them and only consisted of the normal delegates.
While I don't have pictures of news broadcasts from 8 years ago (because I don't have the ability to see 8 years into the future)
I do have the chair of the DNC going on to MSNBC and putting them ( and the rest of the media) on blast for their inaccurate reporting on the primary this cycle and how they may have skewed the results by including the super delegates in their totals this time.
We deserve better.
Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on July 26, 2016, 07:56:21 PMWe deserve better.we allowed this to happen. we dont deserve better.
Any other society would be stringing these people up in the streets right now.How far the west has fallen.
Did you think I'd forgotten, Donald? For a thousand years I have waited, watched in dejection as you made your pitiful country great again. I hope you enjoyed yourself. I really do. Because in the time that you were president, I have amassed a great and terrible army of ofskeleton delegates - skelegates, if you will, Donald. Without you around to ward off the forces of Chaos, I can finally escape from my prison. You just made your first mistake, Donald. Now I can return to that fateful night in 2016 and claim what is rightfully mine!Together with my army of skelegates, I will finally have the majority I need to become the Republican nominee, and fight a principled conservative campaign for President. Nothing will stand in our way. Goodbye, Donald. Your New York ways will taint the Party no longer. This is the priesthood rising! With my new powers, I will plunge this country into TEN THOUSAND YEARS of darkness, and the delegates...they will be at my side every step of the way. Thank you, Donald.
Quote from: d e e p g o o d s on July 26, 2016, 07:30:14 PMYOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP LMAOClearly, people more or less can. As much as I disagree with these practices within the DNC, a lot of those simply are wrong and don't describe the contents of the emails correctly. I know it's not your own list because I've seen it before, but that's the power of quantity. People compile so much information that they know no one will actually take the time to fact check it.For example, the killing horses one? Sounds great when you spin it in a way that makes it sound like the DNC is murdering animals to get insurance money. But if you'd actually read the email, you'll see that it's a conversation between DNC staff members about vetting a potential donor. After doing their research, they found that this man (who has zero ties with the DNC) was found guilty of fraud and killed his horses for insurance money, which caused them to actually reject him as a potential donor. The black name one? If you look at the email, you can see it's not actually the DNC mocking it, but instead a random person employed by a consulting firm they worked with when organizing an LGBT event.
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP LMAO