What will happen at the Democratic Convention?

[Mader Levap]

I predict very boring speech. Fear sells. Being sane and reasonable doesn't.

 

[Denver]

Hillary is speaking there now, and just introduced Tim Kaine. He just took the podium: it's my first look and hear at him.

He spent half his first couple minutes speaking Spanish.

The anti-immigrant build-a-wall people are going to lose their remaining **** at this guy.

 

[Tony Stark]

Hillary is speaking there now, and just introduced Tim Kaine. He just took the podium: it's my first look and hear at him.

He spent half his first couple minutes speaking Spanish.

The anti-immigrant build-a-wall people are going to lose their remaining **** at this guy.

Donald is already trying to turn the Bernie Bros against him.

 

[Tero]

Nothing (speeches containing Democrat dogma)

 

[acbytesla]

I predict very boring speech. Fear sells. Being sane and reasonable doesn't.

I think it's harder than ever to give an exciting speech without setting your hair on fire.

Trump's speech wasn't exciting. It was probably more like the speech Jim Jones gave in Guyana before his followers downed the Kool-aid. Everything including the mass paranoia, apocalyptic visions and messianic leader.

You'll excuse me from wanting to join the party. I don't think it ends well.

 

[Stacko]

2/3 of super delegates are now bound by state results.

 

[Trebuchet]

2/3 of super delegates are now bound by state results.

The article utterly fails to make it clear, but my reading is that this applies only to 2020 (and beyond, until they change it again), not 2016.

 

[Stacko]

The article utterly fails to make it clear, but my reading is that this applies only to 2020 (and beyond, until they change it again), not 2016.

It's not like it's relevant to this year. Hillary still wins.

 

[Trebuchet]

It's not like it's relevant to this year. Hillary still wins.

Of course. The H folks would never have approved it otherwise.

Meanwhile, as the Dems back away from superedelegates (created to moderate the masses after the disaster of '72), the R's will be forced to move in that direction after the disaster of '16. Under an entirely different name, of course.

 

[Stacko]

Of course. The H folks would never have approved it otherwise.

Super delegates are irrelevant in a two horse race. The vast majority flip and back the delegate winner. Look at what happened to Hillary's super delegate lead in '08. Had Martin O'Malley or the other two done garnered any substantial support super delegates would have mattered.

 

[slyjoe]

Well, one thing that won't happen is Wasserman-Schultz appearing.

(CNN)Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not speak at or preside over the party's convention this week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary.

The DNC Rules Committee on Saturday rescinded Wasserman Schultz's position as convention chairwoman, instead naming Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, as permanent chair of the convention, according to a DNC source. She will gavel each session to order and will gavel each session closed, a role that had been expected to be held by Wasserman Schultz.
"She's been quarantined," another top Democrat said of Wasserman Schultz, following a meeting Saturday night.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/polit...:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+CNN+-+Top+Stories)

 

[applecorped]

I think it's harder than ever to give an exciting speech without setting your hair on fire.

Trump's speech wasn't exciting. It was probably more like the speech Jim Jones gave in Guyana before his followers downed the Kool-aid. Everything including the mass paranoia, apocalyptic visions and messianic leader.

You'll excuse me from wanting to join the party. I don't think it ends well.

dupe

 

[applecorped]

I think it's harder than ever to give an exciting speech without setting your hair on fire.

Trump's speech wasn't exciting. It was probably more like the speech Jim Jones gave in Guyana before his followers downed the Kool-aid. Everything including the mass paranoia, apocalyptic visions and messianic leader.

You'll excuse me from wanting to join the party. I don't think it ends well.

*flavor-aid was present as well

 

[Shalamar]

What will happen?

Hillary and Bernie will snark at each other until they spend most of the convention powering up into their final forms. They then spend the last 10 minutes of the convention having a spectacular fight, but they manage to destroy each other.

Biden becomes the nominee.

 

[Bogative]

The anti-immigrant build-a-wall people are going to lose their remaining **** at this guy.

Speaking of building a wall, the Democrats have decided that wall/fences are effective at keeping out undesirables:

The fence, which appears to be about 8 feet tall, is intended to keep out any individuals with whom Democratic Party leaders, delegates and other liberal elites would rather not mingle.

They probably didn't even make Mexico pay for it. The Donald would've made Mexico pay for and it would've been 10 foot tall. Total losers. Low energy.

 

[HenryLee]

So far Debbie Wassername got booed offstage at the Florida Delegation Breakfast so it's going swimmingly.

 

[Tony Stark]

Dem Official tells NBC: Sanders will turn over his delegates to HRC tmrw during a roll call vote.

All 50 states will have votes counted.

 

[Tony Stark]

Some fanatical Bernie Bro dumbasses booed Bernie himself for saying that we have to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine and that Donald must be defeated.

 

[BrooklynBaby]

Hopefully they will heed Kerry's warning and leave the air conditioning off in the convention center for the next four days. Doing this in the middle of a heat wave will show the world the Democrats really practice what they preach and aren't just pandering to their environmentalist wacko wing.

 

[Stacko]

Al Gore just endorsed Hillary Clinton.