(April 19, 2025 at 4:19 pm)Alan V Wrote:(April 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm)Belacqua Wrote: There is strong evidence that the candidate preferred by the majority of Democrats in the primary election didn't get the nomination because more conservative Democrat officials didn't like him.
As a Democrat, I consider that a cynical assessment. After all, before the other Democrats dropped out after South Carolina, they were splitting the Democratic voters between them.
Does the cynicism negate the evidence?
I freely admit that I was not a part of the insider conversations. I do not have recordings of the phone calls Obama made to the candidates who dropped out. None of knows for sure what happened.
I used the term "strong evidence," and I stand by that. Proof is harder to come by.
The last election is an indication that the Dems will choose our candidate for us, without the input of a primary, even if it means getting a candidate proven to be unpopular. Those were extraordinary circumstances, since the Dems had been lying through their teeth about Biden up until the very late moment when they couldn't any more.
I see no reason to be uncynical about either party.
