Baron Von J

Write “return to sender, wrong address” on the envelopes and drop them back in the mail.

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They get 3/5 of due process. They get duepro.

The primaries are where you vote with your heart for the party you want. The general is pretty much always a strategic vote against the who you really don’t want to win. Granted, that requires more than one candidate running for the nomination, and if nobody steps up for it you’re kinda stuck. That’s what David Hogg’s plan is about. Funding progressive primary challenges in Dem-safe districts where the incumbent is asleep at the wheel. If that describes your situation, maybe write to Leaders We Deserve to get them to take a look at your district.

The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you’re thinking of the superdelegates, they don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren’t able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).

I’m in a gerrymandered district in a very low-turnout state. So I have at times had to vote in the Republican primary to try and keep the ultra-crazy off the general election ballot. Sucks but it’s better than silencing my own voice by not voting. Even turning in a ballot without a selection is better than fully not voting, because it proves you’re engaged in the process. When they know you’re engaged, they know there’s a chance at getting your vote.

I don’t fucking care who the DNC wants to run. I’m not appealing to the DNC, I’m appealing to the voters Because the nominee will be who the primary voters elect. So we just need a better candidate to choose to run regardless of what the DNC dangles in front of them, and then we need to vote and convince more like-minded persons to also vote.

All the more reason to vote in the Democratic primary, as that’s your real election, then.

Because turnout in the primaries sucks, especially among the demographics more likely to vote for a progressive than a centrist or neolib. Because the donor class and the people in power want you to feel like voting is useless. The fewer people there are coming out to vote, the less resources they need to spend to win an election, and the less they need to do in office to hold onto it. Keep on voting, and nag everyone you know to keep voting.

Yeah it’ll be interesting to she if she goes for it. I kinda rather hope that she primaries Schumer, instead. I like how she comports herself on committee hearings and such, and think that energy is badly needed in Congress. The current bullshit coming out of the White House is only possible because the GOP Congress have just brazenly ceded their authority.

The chair of the MN state party where Tim Walz was able to rise to Governor is now the chair of the DNC, and David Hogg is the vice chair and has announced he’ll be funding primary challengers in safe Democratic districts with a do-nothing incumbent. These changes to the national leadership were brought to you by party members who voted in the parties internal elections. Aspiring progressives need to declare their candidacy in the primary whether the state party wants them to or not. And the progressive voters need to show up whether the state party wants the progressive or not. That’s the only way to make it happen. Passively sitting it out while waiting for another group to cater the perfect candidate to you is a recipe for “we don’t care about your non-vote.”

Disclaimer: I’m not specifically accusing you individually of being a non-voter, as I don’t know you at all.

Naturally, if you’re already voting consistently in the primaries, then you are not in the target audience for my comment… More people voting for a different candidate resulting in the other candidate winning isn’t really an example of the process not working. Keep fighting for a ballot initiative for ranked choice or approval voting, but don’t stop voting in primaries and elections just because the result isn’t what you wanted. Your presence in the process is a matter of public record and it tells every campaign that if they don’t attempt to win your vote then you’re a potential vote for someone else.

I don’t disagree. But I also don’t expect them to stop as long they have the platform to. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to give in to the status quo by sitting on the sidelines or voting third party in a district/state with first-past-the-post.

Yes, indeed it went into affect in 2018. But that means it’s one less thing to overcome in 2026 and 2028.

It’s fucking been here since Bernie’s 2016 presidential primary campaign. Voters need to come through for it.

Shocking if true.

Superdelegates don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates can’t select a nominee in the first round of voting.

Our choice will be whoever the fuck we want to vote for in the primaries out of the people who chose to run.

Vote. In. The. Primary.

Then accept the reality that for over 99% of state and federal offices either the Democratic or the Republican nominee will win in the general election and vote accordingly. Not voting only maintains the status quo and the only message it sends to “strategists” and candidates is that they don’t have to care about your priorities.

Apologies, but I only skimmed your reply. I don’t disagree with you that non-voters share the blame. I just don’t want to give anybody a free pass here.