It is a good day to go vote. Among other matters, this is a defiance of the AP's/corporate press's anti-democratic maneuver, as Sean King says below, a secret survey of party elites.
KING: Hillary Clinton
did
not win the
Democratic Primary,
she
won a secret
survey of party elites
Hillary Clinton becomes presumptive
democratic
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 12:55 PM
On Monday, on the eve of the
most
important day in the primary, on
a day
where not a single vote was
cast, Hillary
Clinton was surprisingly
declared the
winner of the Democratic
Primary.
Tuesday was scheduled to be the
single biggest day of the entire
Democratic Primary season with a
total of 694 pledged delegates
up for
grabs in California, New Jersey,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, and New Mexico.
In the past 45 days
alone, more
than 650,000 new voters
registered
in California and the state
announced
that with 72% of available
voters
registered, it was the highest
percentage of people ever
registered
for primaries in the state.
This should have been a
celebration
for the Democratic Party as it
welcomed
record numbers of new
voters into the
fold. Instead, something far
more
nefarious and underhanded has
happened. New voters didn't put
Hillary Clinton over the top.
Pledged
delegates didn't seal the deal.
It
wasn't a recount of a primary or
caucus.
It was a survey - an
anonymous survey.
Yes, you read that correctly - a
survey.
The Associated Press conducted a
secret survey of
super-delegates, in
which they promised to protect
their
identities, and determined that
just
enough of them, the perfect
number
actually, said they intended to
vote for Hillary Clinton 50 days
from
now during the Democratic
Convention. For the AP, that was
enough to go ahead and call the
race for her.
Let me say that in a different
way.
A secret survey of politicians
and party
insiders on whether or not they
will actually
vote for Hillary Clinton during
the Democratic Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia
is what the AP used to call this
race a done deal.
It's disgusting.
Hillary Clinton actually has
1,812
pledged delegates that were
earned
from the actual voters in actual
primaries
and caucuses. She needed
571 delegates
to cross the threshold of
2,383 to secure
the nomination. With 694 up for
grabs Tuesday, she would have to
win 82.3% of Tuesday’s delegates
to
actually secure the
nomination. She
hasn't won 82.3% of the vote in
a
single state during this entire
election.
Besides feeling like they
"got the scoop"
before anyone else, why did the
Associated
Press feel the need to do this
right before
the final major day of voting?
AP executive editor Kathleen
Carroll
said in a statement, “by Monday
evening,
571 superdelegates had told us
unequivocally that they intend
to vote
for Clinton at the convention.
Adding
that number to the delegates
awarded
to Clinton in primary and caucus
voting to date gave her the
number
needed to be the presumptive
nominee."
But even this begs more
questions.
Who asked those new anonymous s
uperdelegates to make their vote
known the evening before
the
primary? Did the AP find
them
on happenstance or did the
Clinton campaign encourage them
to come forward.
Christina Bellantoni, of the Los
Angeles
Times found that the graphic
created by
Hillary Clinton's campaign
celebrating
the Associated Press
announcement was
titled
"secret win" and appeared to be
created on Saturday, June
4, days before
the announcement was even
made.
Whatever their intention
with that
title, it rings true - what
happened last
night was indeed a secret win.
But it wasn't a win for
democracy.
Any reasonable person would
agree
that by declaring Hillary
Clinton the
winner on the eve of the biggest
day of the primary suppresses
the
vote. We will never quite
know what
would have happened in
California,
New Jersey, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and
New Mexico had the Associated
Press not declared that the race
was already over.
How motivated will people be in
those states now to show up
versus
how they might have felt if they
thought they race was actually
still on - which it is.
Hillary Clinton has not won.
You don't win an election based
on an anonymous survey of party
elites who don't even vote for
50 days.
Welcome to America - where
our democracy and the so-called
Democratic Party - are
about as
undemocratic as it gets.
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