WikiLeaks publishes searchable database of almost 20,000 emails from DNC.

[henryp]

[Tiberius]

[A Theist]

I don't know of an untarnished person. To expect anything approaching perfection with an elected official is just childish and naive.

I can't think of one untarnished politician either, but I'm getting tired of having to settle for the corrupt ones.

[abaris]

I can't think of one untarnished politician either, but I'm getting tired of having to settle for the corrupt ones.

But not voting at all is more or less giving up. I can't remember when the last time was that I voted for someone. But there was always something to vote against. If it means supporting someone I didn't like, so be it. I liked the opposite even less. But there's one thing for sure. Radicals are far more likely to participate to push their candidate/perty through. So, chances are, that in not voting, you're actually supporting radicalism by proxy.

That's always something to consider.

[ReptilianPeon]

Trouble is, despite all of the revelations about Hilary, given the electoral system in the United States, Hilary knows she doesn't need to make any effort whatsoever to appeal to the Bernie people. She can pick pro-Wall Street, anti-abortion Tim Kaine and many will still vote for her simply out of fear. She can keep sticking her middle finger up at her adversaries in the Democratic Party knowing many of them will vote for her given the winner take all system. She needs to realize that millions people don't want 'suck it up' so Hilary seems to be trying her best to lose the election by alienating large portions of the Democratic vote.

[The Grand Nudger]

But not voting at all is more or less giving up. I can't remember when the last time was that I voted for someone. But there was always something to vote against. If it means supporting someone I didn't like, so be it. I liked the opposite even less. But there's one thing for sure. Radicals are far more likely to participate to push their candidate/perty through. So, chances are, that in not voting, you're actually supporting radicalism by proxy.

That's always something to consider.

You don;t have to vote to effect change.  In this climate with these candidates, arguably, voting is the -least- effective way to secure meaningful change.  A vote legitimizes an unrepresentative government...regardless of whether your vote carries. When whomever wins, wins, no matter what they do (and even when they do those things they promised not to, things you might have thought you were voting "against")....are they going to do anything -other- than point to all those votes, to their mandate?

[Tiberius]

[abaris]

Despicable.

Is it any surprise? As long as there are lucrative jobs waiting at the end of the political donor rainbow, this won't change. They will always do the donor's bidding and take a literal dump on the electorate. Change is not what they desire. It's a nice pay check at the end of the week. Same goes for both parties, obviously.

[vorlon13]

I'd like to think with every upward blip in the polls for Trump the (current and former) poobahs at DNC headquarters will be literally experiencing crashing waves of nausea repeatedly if not continuously for their connivance and deception and lying.

Nausea being a damn pale form of atonement, scourging similar to that which Christ (supposedly) endured might be a better penance, but, sigh, in this enlightened era a penance that is now frowned upon.

Maybe a more productive form of penance (and one that might actually accrue some benefit with the proles and sheeple) is to decree from now on, all internal party communications be instantly and immediately made available to all who wish to monitor it.

Nothing purifies a corrupt organization like generous doses of sunshine, and I know this will come as a surprise to the current DNC poobahs, but that sunshine might be just what they need to win more elections.

[Mister Agenda]

Trouble is, despite all of the revelations about Hilary, given the electoral system in the United States, Hilary knows she doesn't need to make any effort whatsoever to appeal to the Bernie people. She can pick pro-Wall Street, anti-abortion Tim Kaine and many will still vote for her simply out of fear. She can keep sticking her middle finger up at her adversaries in the Democratic Party knowing many of them will vote for her given the winner take all system. She needs to realize that millions people don't want 'suck it up' so Hilary seems to be trying her best to lose the election by alienating large portions of the Democratic vote.

Either that or she just sewed up swing state Virginia where Kaine is pretty popular. Virginia has 13 electoral votes. Add that to the 240 electoral votes of the 'Blue Wall' states, and she's walking in with 253 electoral votes. She needs 17 more to win, which means she only has to get two more swing states to take the election.

Winning a national election doesn't come from pandering to your base. You do that in the primaries.