Why is everyone blaming the state?
To be on the ballot the party needs to declare their candidate by a certain date.
The DNC picked a date so late, that it missed these deadlines. And just expected the states to change the rules for them. Like how the DNC told NH to violate their state laws and push back their primary.
They don’t care about rules and regulations, they’ll do what they want and demand everyone accommodate it.
But this whole thing never made sense.
They schedule the convention super late, but they also want to declare the primary over after a handful of their favorite states get to vote and 90% of the states haven’t yet.
Just pick a fucking lane. If the DNC wants the primary over quickly, why schedule the convention so late that they can’t go on ballots?
And I’ll never understand why anyone can look at this situation, understand what’s happening, and blame anyone except the unelected idiots running the DNC because they can bring in the most donations from billionaires and corporations.
Dunno why the down votes. Looks like you’re giving fucks in all the right places.
DNC needs to stop making the election process a game they play. The primary (and having a real one) matters.
At least super delegates are less of a thing now.
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There’s a big push that voters should never ask anything of politicians…
They want us to just show up and vote for our “team”
So anyone that talks about how the party can change to get more votes, gets down votes.
Their not interested in getting more votes, they want more obedient voters.
But just because I understand what’s happening, doesn’t mean I understand why they’re doing it.
They say all that matters is beating Republicans, but if that’s what they’re trying for, you’d think it would mean they want the party to run popular candidates.
Thing is, since 2010 there have been accommodations to BOTH parties except in '16 where they both did it before the 90 day thing. Dems still should have known better, should have
They knew better
Rules are for the poor, why should we have known we had to follow them?
-The DNC being absolutely tone deaf
Like, I have no doubt that’s what happened. But it’s just terrible messaging to the Dem base.
