you make excellent points. it’s funny, many of these are reasons i didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016. I wrote in Bernie bc I felt very frustrated with the primary process and the superdelegates thing. It’s also the reason why I wasn’t at all interested in Harris in the 2020 primaries. But now, i don’t even care why they change it or who they choose, i will vote Dem in November no matter what. I agree 100% with everything you said. It’s just strange to consider how much the situation has changed over the past 4 and 8 years.
It’s better to think about the general election as the place to vote for your party. You get your chance to vote for individual candidates in the primaries. I know that isn’t the case for incumbents, but that’s where the decisions should be made.
If people thought about elections this way, we wouldn’t be in this mess where Democrats are always outnumbered by Republicans in the election booth, even though they outnumber them when counting registered voters.
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you make excellent points. it’s funny, many of these are reasons i didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016. I wrote in Bernie bc I felt very frustrated with the primary process and the superdelegates thing. It’s also the reason why I wasn’t at all interested in Harris in the 2020 primaries. But now, i don’t even care why they change it or who they choose, i will vote Dem in November no matter what. I agree 100% with everything you said. It’s just strange to consider how much the situation has changed over the past 4 and 8 years.
It’s better to think about the general election as the place to vote for your party. You get your chance to vote for individual candidates in the primaries. I know that isn’t the case for incumbents, but that’s where the decisions should be made.
If people thought about elections this way, we wouldn’t be in this mess where Democrats are always outnumbered by Republicans in the election booth, even though they outnumber them when counting registered voters.