Commission members, who range from lawmakers and grassroots activists to President Obama’s campaign manager, are charged with putting forth recommendations to help expand the Democratic base and increase more ethnic and regional diversity in choosing the party’s presidential nominee in 2016 and beyond, assuming Obama seeks a second term.
A commission suggestion would be to allow the first four states that held nominating contests in the January 2008 maintain their early, privileged calendar positions. But these states – Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina – would be directed to delay holding their caucuses and primaries before February 1. All other states would be forbidden from holding their nominating contests until at least the first Tuesday in March.
Wait, there's more manure in the pile...
The commission also discussed how to reduce the influence of unpledged delegates – lawmakers and party insiders also know as superdelegates – who played a big role in the 2008 nomination contest.
Reduce them??? How about doing away with them altogether and letting the voters decide???
And here's where our Michigan Dem Party hack weighs in:
Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, said he had no problem with reducing the number of superdelegates as long as state party chairs and vice chairs maintained their status and party leaders continued to play a role at the conventions.
But Brewer took exception to the idea of allowing four states to be granted a special exemption to hold their primaries before other states.
"From the perspective of Michigan and other states, it is unfair that any state have a permanent place at the top of the process," said Brewer, who attended the meeting but is not a commission member. "It is unfair to give any states or state a monopoly."
This article from Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy sheds a little more light on this. The Dems are talking abut "de-emphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee." There doesn't seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm, however. I'm not counting on the party to do the right thing.
Are Democrats Finally Getting A Clue? "Yes, and no. They realize they need to change how the primaries are conducted, yet don't see any real problems with how the last one went. I have written about the rampant Caucus fraud ad nauseum, but apparently, the DNC missed it. Even though the Clinton Campaign told them about it. Oh, whatever - you can't make the blind see, especially when they don't want to see.
Of course, my favorite (cough, choke) representative, Jim Clyburn, who is MY representative (cough, choke) is the voice for this article, "Democrats Consider New Presidential Nominating Process." Honestly, the whole thing would be laughable if it weren't so delusional: National Democrats are considering changing the presidential nominating process, by establishing a new primary calendar and deemphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee.
The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination was marred by controversy as the Democratic National Committee argued with some state parties over when they could hold their primaries and caucuses and candidates were forced to take sides in this important internal party dispute.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, said that the 2008 nomination contest "yielded a great candidate," but readily acknowledged the problems that arose.
"We need to improve a little bit in spite of the fact that we got a great candidate out of the process," Clyburn said Saturday at a meeting of a DNC working group tasked with drafting a new plan. "It was not very comfortable at various points along the way.""
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony
They just want to know how they can cheat next time, since they got caught red-handed this time.
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This article from Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy sheds a little more light on this. The Dems are talking abut "de-emphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee." There doesn't seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm, however. I'm not counting on the party to do the right thing.
Are Democrats Finally Getting A Clue? "Yes, and no. They realize they need to change how the primaries are conducted, yet don't see any real problems with how the last one went. I have written about the rampant Caucus fraud ad nauseum, but apparently, the DNC missed it. Even though the Clinton Campaign told them about it. Oh, whatever - you can't make the blind see, especially when they don't want to see.
Of course, my favorite (cough, choke) representative, Jim Clyburn, who is MY representative (cough, choke) is the voice for this article, "Democrats Consider New Presidential Nominating Process." Honestly, the whole thing would be laughable if it weren't so delusional: National Democrats are considering changing the presidential nominating process, by establishing a new primary calendar and deemphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee.
The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination was marred by controversy as the Democratic National Committee argued with some state parties over when they could hold their primaries and caucuses and candidates were forced to take sides in this important internal party dispute.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, said that the 2008 nomination contest "yielded a great candidate," but readily acknowledged the problems that arose.
"We need to improve a little bit in spite of the fact that we got a great candidate out of the process," Clyburn said Saturday at a meeting of a DNC working group tasked with drafting a new plan. "It was not very comfortable at various points along the way.""
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What a crock of Dims. Dump every single caucus, have primaries--one person/one vote--only, count every vote ONCE on paper ballots, and let winner take all in each state. My North Texas Democratic county convention was a disaster. After painstaking credentials checking, the first false bho the fraud 2-1 win over Hillary was reversed to the true 2-1 Hillary win over Obama. Over a thousand out-of-county residents came in to cheat for the fraud.
Clyburn and other crooks like him are pandering to any remaining Democratic voters.