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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
You mean it's different when you're killing your own? As a matter of democracy, there is no difference.
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That's not right. It's not even wrong. The political parties are clubs who only allow their members to vote. How they do so is nothing more than a mechanism for choosing who is allowed to introduce themselves with "I am the Democratic nominee." The purpose of that enterprise is not to be fair; it's to hand the nomination to the most electable candidate. Hank's point only later turned into a critique of whether excluding the MI and FL delegates was wise in terms of gauging the outcome of the MI and FL vote in the General. But he started out by saying it was hypocritical to run your primaries differently than you say you want the General to be run in November. That's both stupid and a total non-sequitur. A convention can nominate whomever they think will win the General.
ETA to be truly democratic every state would be allowed to hold a new primary whenever a candidate for the nomination dropped out. After all, we haven't heard from millions of voters who cast wasted ballots for Romney in NV, MI, WY, ME, MA, MT, UT, MN, CO, ND and AK.
