The chair of the MN state party where Tim Walz was able to rise to Governor is now the chair of the DNC, and David Hogg is the vice chair and has announced he’ll be funding primary challengers in safe Democratic districts with a do-nothing incumbent. These changes to the national leadership were brought to you by party members who voted in the parties internal elections. Aspiring progressives need to declare their candidacy in the primary whether the state party wants them to or not. And the progressive voters need to show up whether the state party wants the progressive or not. That’s the only way to make it happen. Passively sitting it out while waiting for another group to cater the perfect candidate to you is a recipe for “we don’t care about your non-vote.”
Disclaimer: I’m not specifically accusing you individually of being a non-voter, as I don’t know you at all.
I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.
The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you’re thinking of the superdelegates, they don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren’t able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).
The chair of the MN state party where Tim Walz was able to rise to Governor is now the chair of the DNC, and David Hogg is the vice chair and has announced he’ll be funding primary challengers in safe Democratic districts with a do-nothing incumbent. These changes to the national leadership were brought to you by party members who voted in the parties internal elections. Aspiring progressives need to declare their candidacy in the primary whether the state party wants them to or not. And the progressive voters need to show up whether the state party wants the progressive or not. That’s the only way to make it happen. Passively sitting it out while waiting for another group to cater the perfect candidate to you is a recipe for “we don’t care about your non-vote.”
Disclaimer: I’m not specifically accusing you individually of being a non-voter, as I don’t know you at all.
I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.
All the more reason to vote in the Democratic primary, as that’s your real election, then.
Nope, decided by delegates. I vote for who I want and the party decides who they want.
If elections were decided by popular vote, I would have more motivation.
The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you’re thinking of the superdelegates, they don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren’t able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).