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Warren Sapping Bernie's Life Energy

Journal by takyon

Sanders campaign wracked by dissension

Elizabeth Warren just won an endorsement that’s making Bernie Sanders’s world really mad

According to polls, Warren needs a little more to fully absorb Sanders.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:32AM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:32AM (#895436) Journal

    And very secretive it appears:

    WFP employs a ranked-choice voting system for endorsements, meaning people rank their preferences from first to last. Vote share is divided 50-50 between WFP's national committee and WFP members and grassroots supporters. The party doesn’t release separate tallies, meaning we don't know if there's a big schism between WFP’s leaders' preference and its membership base.

    Looks like they have a DNC problem.

    She's got a record on housing, fighting the big banks, creating the CFPB, having accountability, having people actually attack her for her leadership in that...

    Wait, she's successful because people "attack" her? And the banks? What has she done to the banks? All the same fraudulent banks that caused the recession are running just as smoothly as ever. CFPB? Toothless! You gotta elect a congress to back it up, otherwise all her talk is just hot air, which is usually the intent with their "Rotating Villain" game.

    Time to vote all these people out. Or you will trudge through this same old bullshit for an indefinite time.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @01:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @01:25AM (#895455)

    Found this: An exchange of letters on the Working Families Party [wsws.org]. wikipedia says [wikipedia.org]:

    Like other minor parties in the state, the WFP benefits from New York's electoral fusion laws that allow the party to support another party's candidate when they feel it aligns with their platform. This allows sympathetic voters to support a minor party without feeling like they are "wasting" their vote. Usually, the WFP endorses the Democratic Party candidate, but it has occasionally endorsed moderate Republican Party candidates as a strategy for spurring bi-partisan action on its policy priorities.

    According to Vox link:

    Somewhat understandably, then, the endorsement has not been well met by Sanders’s supporters, who view it as a betrayal of his past work with the party. In 2016, Sanders sent an email to his New York supporters urging them to vote for Hillary Clinton on the Working Families Party line on their ballots. In the same email, he described WFP as “the closest thing there is to a political party that believes in my vision of democratic socialism.”

    Usual disclaimers about the parliamentary road to socialism. Void where prohibited. Plus if Warren, we will be getting a capitalist who isn't ashamed to call herself a capitalist. Is Pocahontas a bad enough dude to save capitalism from the jaws of fascism? Or will Darth Biden media choke her, then choke bigly in the general?