Posted by Tina
Two candidates have called off their bids for president in the Republican race after doing poorly in New Hampshire. Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie have called it quits. No word yet from Ben Carson who also showed very poorly in New Hampshire. The process so far is clean and neat.
In the Democrat race Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton resoundingly but a nutty party policy allows Hillary to leave new Hampshire with most of the delegates. The Spectator quotes Daily Caller:
Sanders won 60 percent of the vote, but thanks to the Democratic Party’s nominating system, he leaves the Granite State with at least 13 delegates while she leaves with at least 15 delegates.
New Hampshire has 24 “pledged” delegates, which are allotted based on the popular vote. Sanders has 13, and Clinton has 9, with 2 currently allotted to neither.
But under Democratic National Committee rules, New Hampshire also has 8 “superdelegates,” party officials who are free to commit to whomever they like, regardless of how their state votes. Their votes count the same as delegates won through the primary.
Sounds like a scheme to make sure the party power elites pick the candidate. The Spectator article continues:
Six of those superdelegates are already committed to Clinton, giving her a grand total of 15 delegates, although she only fairly won nine. There are two superdelegates who are currently listed as “uncommitted,” which means, if DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is firmly in Clinton’s camp, has anything to say about it, they’re simply “Future Clinton voters,” if they intend to earn the DNC’s support for their future campaigns – as “superdelegates” are mostly highly placed elected officials, party chairs and DNC members in their respective states. Accordingly, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that among the current crop of DNC superdelegates, the vast majority are already committed to Clinton.
Also accordingly, although Clinton has won only one of two primaries (Iowa, and even then by a razor thin margin), because she has these commitments, she already has a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders in the delegate department. Sanders, who has won almost all of his delegates the traditional way, has 42 delegates so far. Clinton has a whopping 394.
If I were a Bernie supporter I’d be hopping mad. First Hillary wins six out of six in a coin toss scheme and Now Bernie wins the popular vote by a mile and he ends up behind? Somethings rotten in this game. Bernie supporters might as well stay home…so, are they feeling the Bern yet?
The fourth estate is killing this country.
I can’t get anything like actual numbers from anybody, except, I think, that this “record” turnout comprises less than half the electorate … which is how I thought it would work out.
Lord help us all.
Hmmm…fourth estate, educated by leftist professors. However can it be?
The fourth estate has no political party. They are beyond.
Ya gotta wonder how much $$ has been budgeted by the DNC and the Bubba foundation for voter fraud this time around . . . .
And it looks like they’re already spending it, given the “results” in IA and NH . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvrh73BVraE&list=PLfvY2jdRhkJDWtfcBvCb47i1B8UW-rsX0&index=2
Off topic. He’s back.
Alan Grayson under House Ethics investigation for being… a hedge fund manager.
Wait, what?:
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2016/02/11/alan-grayson-hedge-fund-democrats/
Have actually been able to listen to some minutes of the Dem Debate.
Discourse, and so civilized.
After the circus promulgated by the Republicans, lo, these many, many months, you wouldn’t have thought the species still capable of such a thing.
Moderator in the tank for $hrilLIARy with donations to Bubba foundation and one of them being heard to say “Oh, God” when Bernie began an answer. Yeah, that’s so civilized!
$hrilLIARy suffers from electile dysfunction . . . . . .
😀 Made my morning, J. Soden.
Civilized…which translates to soft ball promotion. What a joke. Not a single question for Hillary about her brazen use of a private server, the thirty or more people without clearance that were given sensitive information in unsecured emails, the several laws she is asserted to have broken, or the quid pro quo that may have occurred involving her foundation while she was the secretary of state. NOT ONE QUESTION!
Any Republican candidate would be hounded with questions if suspected of same.
Yeah, men are “fervent and forceful” … whereas women are “shrill and emasculating”.
J … Don’t be such a pu$$y.
Hillary is shrill and anything but emasculating, after all she practically pimped for old Bill. There should be a special place in he77 for women who enable and cover for serial sexual abusers as a pathway to the presidency.
I would not be surprised if the This was a GOP style witch hunt. The DNC is just as evil as the GOP. Both parties are shams ran by the elite. I stand by that.
If Grayson is guilty then off with his head. However I seriously doubt it. Watch him in action in congress. There are hours of video. He rails against corporate and bank crimes.
Until people stop allowing them to decide by these parties and see just who is behind the curtains of these parties we are doomed.
To Me DWS is the Karl Rove of the DNC. These parties take out anybody who does not fall in line with their masters.
I find it interesting Republicans do not have a candidate who does not take the big donor money and crowdfund him just as the Bernie Supporters do. (Trump does not qualify as he is an elite himself)
They stack the deck against us but People power will continue. Why not find yourselves a candidate who is not part of the Oligarchy?
Reasons why the Parties hate grayson? Like I said watch him in action! I smell a setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcehlgwwB8
Bernie the commie is holding out for the big enchilada, not that Congress will oblige him. Donations from various Pacs and corporations are mere child’s play. His aim is to take wealth. It doesn’t get any bigger than that in terms of money and creating an Oligarchy.
Oligarchy: a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
Accuracy in Media vets the Bern.