07-23-2016, 07:45 PM
vision63 wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=samintx]
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/d...ks-emails/
Is this going to cause a ruckus in the Democratic party? Will Hillary have to explain?
There was already a fair amount of evidence that the leadership at the DNC was favoring Clinton - which they had no business doing. I'm not sure about the ruckus factor but I'll bet that Sanders made the pragmatic decision a while back to put his valid outrage about the shenanigans at the DNC aside for now until Trump is defeated, so to the degree that his "followers" take their lead from him I don't think there will be too much of a ruckus about it - at least not until after the election.
The Democratic Party is obligated to present what it believes is it's best candidate to face the opposition. There is no requirement to anything other that this. They are a private organization. Sanders wasn't even a Democrat. He ran and he lost 100% fair and square. If you don't believe this to be true, demonstrate how it wasn't.
I think without any bias from the DNC that Sanders probably would have lost - maybe by a lesser margin, but probably lost anyway.
As to my assertion "which they had no business doing" is one that you can rightfully disagree with. You present a legal argument and I concede the legal argument - as a private organization, the DNC can legally show bias toward and against candidates that run on their ticket. I intended my assertion not to be about legality but of fairness. What is the point of a primary where candidates try to get the majority or plurality of the votes if the results reflect what party leadership wants rather than what the voters would have preferred without the leadership bias? What candidate wants to be known for winning a primary by getting a majority of the votes only because the party rigged it so that they would? It's not only not fair, I don't think it is even desirable if you want the party to be successful.
When I get some time, I'll try to look into the party rules to see what they have to say about this.