I thought I had already heard and seen this, but according to today’s noon news Secretary Galvin officially announced his morning that the MA presidential primary will be Tuesday, March 1, 2016. The ballot will also include candidates for ward, town, and state party committees, the nomination papers for which are now available.
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The official Dem debate schedule. A couple of candidates are crying foul, which I’m not sure why, though if state parties and local media want to host other debates that should be allowed.
And it basically is the DNC giving a nice favor to Hillary Clinton. Four of these debates are before the early state contests, so it really reduces the exposure other candidates would get after those contests to be competitive beyond them. We don’t have nearly as many candidates as the GOP so it is not a logistical issue, and each of her opponents will need the debate time to get their points across.
By contrast, in 2004 we had 15 sanctioned debates and in 2008 we had 12.
Bernie wanted to have interparty primary debates, which is also a good idea. I don’t see why less debates are better for our side if we want our ideas to get across to the electorate.
….want to get ideas across. You just want to win.
…I fail to see how one debate, 20 debates, or something in between inherently favors one candidate over the others.
I hope you are trolling.
Having fewer debates inherently favors candidates with more name recognition and more money to get themselves on TV outside of the debates. Having more debates favors candidates with better ideas, or at least those who articulate them better.
The DNC already picked their candidate and are suppressing the democratic process so they can go forward with the coronation. They are probably hurting the party in the process because in the meantime the Republicans get all the attention and get to frame the debates. By the time the Democratic debates come around the questions will be about whatever inane thing the Republican front runner said rather than about progressive ideas.
The only function these things seem to have is to weed out the guys who make some kind of catastrophic error: “Oops”
Other than that, the candidates are given the opportunity to give well- rehearsed stump speeches, which no one once scene ever notices isn’t actually responsive to the question.
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Lincoln-Douglas they ain’t.
Do you have evidence that the DNC as a unit has made up its mind? It’s large enough that I suspect individual members are supporting a variety of candidates. I do wish they were starting earlier so we don’t only have to hear from the GOP.
Everyone knows Obama Clinton was a fight that engaged the party and kept the media squarely focused on our side long after McCain consolidated, Kerry won too quickly and we had a long general do people got sick of that race too. I think competitive, long, substantive primaries are good for our party and debates encourage that.