{"id":178970,"date":"2018-07-01T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/01\/so-how-are-they-going-to-f-this-up\/"},"modified":"2018-07-01T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:38:00","slug":"so-how-are-they-going-to-f-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/01\/so-how-are-they-going-to-f-this-up\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Are They Going to F%$# This Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The DNC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2018\/06\/27\/democrats-vote-to-limit-voting-power-of-superdelegates\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.ec1db0bd84a9\">just voted eliminate superdelegate votes on the first ballot<\/a>: <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Democratic National Committee\u2019s two-year debate over its presidential primary rules came closer to resolution Wednesday, as its key rulemaking body voted to curtail the power of unpledged delegates \u2014 so-called \u201csuperdelegates\u201d \u2014 at the next convention. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of a three-hour conference call, which was opened to the public, the Rules and Bylaws Committee adopted a compromise that grew out of lengthy negotiations between supporters of Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign and supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). <\/p>\n<p>In the past, superdelegates were able to vote on the first ballot at the convention, for any nominee. The new rule would prohibit superdelegates from voting until a second ballot, or in the event a candidate arrived at the convention with enough pledged delegates \u2014 earned in primaries and caucuses \u2014 to secure the nomination. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt fulfills our mandate without disenfranchising the people who have built the Democratic Party,\u201d DNC chairman Tom Perez said near the start of the call. The reform, he said, would \u201crebuild the trust among many who feel, frankly, alienated from our party.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how, but this will get screwed up.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party establishment could f%$# up a 2 car funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNC has just voted eliminate superdelegate votes on the first ballot: The Democratic National Committee\u2019s two-year debate over its presidential primary rules came closer to resolution Wednesday, as its key rulemaking body voted to curtail the power of unpledged delegates \u2014 so-called \u201csuperdelegates\u201d \u2014 at the next convention. At the end of a three-hour &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,375,374],"class_list":["post-178970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}