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posted by martyb on Monday March 11 2019, @10:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-line-up-the-sights-on-your-toe-and-squeeeeeeze dept.

Here in the U.S., the presidential election season, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier each time.

In keeping with this, the Democratic National Committee is making waves by announcing that it will exclude Fox News, which has the largest viewership of the major cable news networks by a considerable margin, from debate coverage of DNC presidential candidates.

Thomas Lifson outlines a number of reasons this may not be a good move.

One is that from a historical and strategy perspective:

Presidential debates inevitably favor the challengers. Trump can push them in that direction by agreeing to debates only if Fox News is included. That forces them to either accept FNC or have no debates at all. If they accept, that makes FNC the debate worth watching. The rest are discredited as Democrat "safe spaces,"

And it appears he has pounced and done exactly that from his twitter account:

Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!

Really all either party has to do is A) not be crazy and/or B) keep their idiot mouths shut to win.

Neither of these seems to be in the cards dealt to either side, so it should be a heck of a ride.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:09PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:09PM (#812807)

    (a) get certain unelectable geezers out of the way (cough, Hillary, cough, Bernie, cough)

    Hillary's loss in 2016 cleared her out of the way already. She won't be running again.

    Bernie is a different story, he didn't get 'cleared out of the way', but as he is: a) male b) white, he is now "unrunnable" by the current D's who want females and non-whites in every office. So there is little chance of a Bernie return because he does not fit the D's current demographic.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 11 2019, @06:23PM (8 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 11 2019, @06:23PM (#812821) Journal

    Don't be too sure. Hillary has not stated that she won't run again. Nor has Bernie. And, remember that Bernie had the young Dem voter support. Hillary ran on the uterine plank as much as anything, and young women rejected her for that reason, as much as any other. If Bernie runs again, the youngsters may very well swarm back to "Granpa Bernie". And, there are more of those younger voters, this time around, and fewer old geezers to vote against Hillary.

    We shall see what we shall see, I think.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 11 2019, @06:24PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 11 2019, @06:24PM (#812823) Journal

      Ooops, fewer old geezers to vote FOR Hillary.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:12PM (#812871)

      I know I've said it before but not 100% sure if it was replying to you. Guess you're so stuck in the Foxhole you don't even see on-topic week old news http://time.com/5543634/hillary-clinton-2020-president-campaign/ [time.com]

      I love how your disparaging metaphors are the weakest insults possible while Trump in his usually epic awfulness has "the best insult worthy traits, everyone says so."

      ERMAGHERD SOCIALISM!! arrrtard

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @08:05PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @08:05PM (#812895)

      Don't be too sure. Hillary has not stated that she won't run again.

      Are you sure about that? [cnn.com]

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 11 2019, @08:07PM (4 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 11 2019, @08:07PM (#812896) Journal

        I was pretty sure. But, she also says, " but vows she’s “not going anywhere.”

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @08:20PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @08:20PM (#812901)

          Runaway does not know that he does not know. He's kind of an idiot, that way. Ask him about the population of China! Or where Trump was born! Hilarity (and Hilary) will ensue.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @11:05PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @11:05PM (#812962)

            Or where Trump was born!

            Oh, I know this one! Kenya, right?

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:55AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:55AM (#813138)

              No, it is in the Bahamas, where his Alien British Subject mother dropped this anchor baby! Trump is the spawn of immigrants! Build the wall! Keep Trumps, or more correctly, Drumpfs, out!

        • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 11 2019, @10:55PM

          by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday March 11 2019, @10:55PM (#812959) Journal

          Doesn't matter what she says, she still owns the DNC and will decide who will be on the ballot. Unless another moderate "liberal" pops up, my money is on Biden, all warn and fuzzy and uncontroversial. But the *I am not Trump 2020* campaign is not going to get the undecideds off the couch.

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