Democratic Nom - Order Your Importance

Yes. winning the popular vote in three of the last four elections is a burden.

 

None of it matters... Dems have open primaries, so Republicans can cross over and manipulate the vote count. Delegates don't matter because party rules say that they don't have to vote for the candidate they're pledged to, so if the trailing candidate can swing enough of them, the trailing candidate can take the nomination.
Just do the voting American Idol style.

 

Both political parties in every national election focus on winning "swing" states. You talk about this like it's some recently devised thought process. You think the DLC invented this? Is this your first national election?

 

Well, at the end of the convention the only number that will matter is No. 3, so I will say that one. Nos. 2 and 5 are the means to get there, and Nos. 1 and 4 are meaningless spin points. The first one to 2,025 gets the prize.

 

And we have another straw man. Show me where I said the DLC "invented it." I said it hasn't been a winning strategy for Dems in the last two elections, so perhaps it's time for a new strategy. Care to argue with that point?

Also, it's my third national election. I voted in 2000, and in 2004, and I'll vote again this year. So take your condescension and shove it.

 

Exactly.

And last time I checked the GOP doesn't have a mechanism in place that gives the party leadership the opportunity to give the finger to its voters like the DNC does.

 

The White House?

 

Uh, the GOP has open primaries too.

 

Blue font, A_QB.

 

A_QB ... don't forget, blue is the color of sarcasm.

 

I don't know how they do it in the other 49 states but you can cross over and vote in either primary down here.

 

Winning swing states is both parties' strategy in every national election because it's the ONLY intelligent strategy with our electoral process. It WILL be the strategy of both the Democrats and Republicans in this general election, too, just like the last one and the one before that and the one before that. Can I make it any clearer than that?

Don't bother to respond, I'll just point this simple fact out to you when we get to the general election and both parties are trying to figure out how to win the swing states.