And if she did, no doubt Barack would be the next POTUS.
If this happens, and the possibility is there I suppose, I will be so f*cking bummed. To put it as academic as I can.
I don’t see why either has to actively campaign for the other once the winner is decided. In fact, whoever loses should spend his/her time back in the Senate making up for time lost on the campaign trail.
I don’t understand how people in this thread are ascribing the “DNC” with the intent or authority or ability to do anything. The DNC is not an independent source of authority that can force anybody in the Democratic party to do anything. There are only Democratic party insiders and office holders. They can use whatever individual influence they have on other members of the party, but none of that influence is derived from the DNC.
I mean, come on. The head of the DNC is Howard Dean. How can you imagine that Howard Dean could lean on anybody in the Democratic party?
When talking about the DNC leaning on one or another candidate I doid’t mean it as an individual. I meant it as democratic party insiders and office holders. Howard Dean is really just a glorified party hall monitor.
He’s a big guy . . .
I’d have thought they’d start leaning on Hillary to quit the race after they saw her new ad.
And here is the same one, but posted directly by the Hillary campaign. The comments under these two copies of the video are … inconsistent 
“Democratic party insiders and office holders” =/= the Democratic National Committee
Sure it is. Most of the superdelegates are superdelegates because they’re DNC members.
The problem, of course, is that the DNC itself (so far) isn’t speaking with anything approaching a unified voice. But if it did, it would be in a position to determine the nominee.
That’s a joke right? They are not really putting that ad out as a real campaign ad are they? LOL!!
That may be, but their votes are not controlled by the DNC and they do not make their decisions as a unit called the DNC. Furthermore, there are many DNC organization people who are neither super delegates nor Democratic party insiders or office holders.
Nonsense. First of all, the only “unified voice” the DNC has is through its organizational structure, which, as I mentioned, is headed by Howard Dean, who does not have the influence to determine the nominee.
All the DNC does is raise and distribute money and put on a convention. The DNC has no power to anoint a candidate. The super delegates are free agents.
Hillary . . . ya gotta realize, Bill didn’t win in '92 because he could play the saxophone.
As someone who doesn’t know the process, and is still a bit confused by the whole supergelegate/delegate thing. Can you tell me what the DNC does for people who are a member of it? Anecdotal evidence maybe?
The DNC’s primary role is to help raise money and assist in running campaigns. It has no direct political power and has no power to set policy positions, make decisions, or appoint people to positions of authority. To the extent that it has some power, it is in that it can decide how to spend its money.
One poster on the non-sanctioned thread wrote: “I tried to comment on the other copy of this video, before I noticed that the HRC campaign was monitoring comments and only letting the obsequious love-fests through.” And nobody’s commented on that other thread in a week (as opposed to a regular stream of feedback on the other one). How dumb do they think those “kids out there” are, anyway? :rolleyes:
(wrong thread)