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> Trump is spreading disinformation, as Howard Dean President Trump. What was Howard Dean? The distinction really matters. > They allowed the charade of a c
by rootusrootus 5y ago
> Trump is spreading disinformation, as Howard Dean
President Trump. What was Howard Dean? The distinction really matters.
> They allowed the charade of a campaign to go on, allowing Democrats a heavy advantage in elections like the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.
Primaries are not elections, though, and there is no reason a political party has to call them off just because someone believes the game has already been effectively won. I.e. it ain't over until it's over. It's bad enough that voters in later primaries basically believe their vote doesn't matter, but you're suggesting that we should formalize that? The parties are private organizations, so who do you propose gets to decide when to call the whole thing off?
- bobsmooth 5y agoA former governor and at the time of the 2008 comments the DNC chair.
- pyuser583 5y agoI’m not criticizing the political parties for keeping the fake campaign going. A clever trick on their part. I’m criticizing the press for not calling the winner. In most elections, the press takes their duty of calling the winner very, very seriously. Almost like it’s a constitutional role. And yet when it would have mattered, they decided not to.
- pyuser583 5y agoHoward Dean was speaking in his official capacity of head of the DNC. He was literally being paid by the Democratic Party to say what he said.