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Landslide Lyndon
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« on: April 15, 2016, 12:45:32 AM »

I don't like it, but I also don't dislike disregarding the caucus states.

Caucuses are exercises in voter suppression. That's what's being criticized, not the fact that they voted for Sanders. 
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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2016, 01:18:25 AM »


About what Sanders says? I agree, absolutely.
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2016, 01:29:37 AM »

I don't like it, but I also don't dislike disregarding the caucus states.

Caucuses are exercises in voter suppression. That's what's being criticized, not the fact that they voted for Sanders. 

And, of course, people only started complaining about them after he starting scoring massive victories there. Not a peep after Iowa and Nevada. Nothing suspicious about that.

Don't be disingenuous. People were complaining even back in 2008. And they sure as hell complained after this year's Iowa debacle.
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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2016, 05:07:36 AM »

Consider the contrast between Sanders and Obama. In 2008 Obama visited and held events even in states where he knew he was about to be crushed (West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma).
Sanders OTOH didn't even bother to show up in most states and now he tries to somehow turn that into a plus by dismissing them as irrelevant. It's a nifty trick as long as you are dumb enough to fall for it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2016, 10:47:01 AM »

It reminds me of right wing 'Real America' talking points.

Demagogues use the same talking points, regardless of ideology.
It's always "us vs. them".
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