The DNC's idea of democracy: MI & FL primary voters = 1/2 a person

No, "disruptive" is the wrong term. "Wearing the wrong T-shirt" is what you are looking for.

This stuff is all messed up, kinda like the person who wasn't allowed to board a flight because TSA saw there was a picture of a gun on their shirt... held by a Transformer. Silly silly silly.
 
Yes, the Republican's decision to count 1/2 vote for those two states was probably the right decision from the start. The Democrats should have done the same, and kept all of their candidates on the ballot if they were going to do it that way. But since they did not, those two states probably shouldn't have been counted because of the number of candidates who agreed to have their name removed (who wouldn't have if they had known in advance about 1/2 vote being agreed to like the Republicans).
 
But isn't a convention held on private property, and paid for with private funds, a different story from an election paid for by the public?
 
But isn't a convention held on private property, and paid for with private funds, a different story from an election paid for by the public?
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Sidewalks are still considered public property. This isn't a situation where people are trying to get into a convention and disrupt it from the inside. Of course, there are some like Ron Paul that will not be allowed into the convention even though they should have a right to be there.

The point is though, that it is an election with agreed upon rules. If there is a rules infraction, with known repercussions, why is it suddenly a "taxpayers are getting screwed" situation? In closed primaries, you can't vote in the primary unless you are a member of a party, and then only can vote within that party. There are different rules that apply.
 
tube ee said:
Here's how it went down:

The Michigan and Florida legislatures decided to advance the dates of their primary elections ahead of the February 5th cut-off put forth by both the RNC and DNC.

Both parties punished both states for doing so. The Republicans cut their delegate votes to 1/2 vote per delegate, or maybe cut the number of delegates in half... I'm not sure. The practical result is the same. The Democrats said that they would not seat any delegation selected according to the results in either state. Representatives of all of the major campaigns were members of the DNC committee that made the decision. Nobody objected.
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The irony of this situation is that if Michigan and Florida had played by the rules, by the time their primary rolled around, they would have been in a position to have a real impact on the outcome.

Instead, they broke the rules and paid the price.
 
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