Can any Hillary voters address why it's OK for Hillary to get debate questions in advance from CNN, but not Trump?
Specifically, how is that OK? how does that show that CNN is an impartial news source?
It isnāt OK. Political Parties have a rule that whoever gets the most votes wins. That is basically the only real rule there is. Outside of that, the party elders, bosses, operatives, etcā¦. conspire to keep folks who are unelectable in the General like Ron Paul, Jerry Brown, and Bernie Sanders off the ticket. Their only interest is winning. There was a reason the RNC had sit-downs with Trump prior to his getting the nomination as early as March 2016. HRC was a Democrat and has been for years. Bernie Sanders was not a Democrat and still isnāt. He entered the Democratic Party Primary; thatās it. Much in the same way that you could enter a contest or a open golf tournament. If the DNC wanted to just anoint her as their candidate, they could have done so at any time before, during, or after the convention; not held a convention at all, or not fielded a candidate at all. Itās a private organization. The exact same thing could be said about the GOP.
What most low information dumbasses do not get is that the states have basically outsourced primary elections to the parties. This is why you see some deviation between the dates of the GOP and DNC primaries and caucuses, different rules on how delegates are rewarded, and sometimes awkward outcomes. For example, as I recall when HRC won Texas in 2008, she was awarded as many delegates as BHO received for winning Idaho because the margin in Texas was so close and the Idaho contest was a blowout in his favor. The role the Stateās play is basically certifying that the elections were carried out competently, fairly, and lawfully.
The General Election is put on by the State itself which is why you often have a different polling place for it than the primary.
As for CNN and itās impartiality, if you were to be impartial yourself, youād find that most of the media is pretty much down the middle. One of the constant chants I heard growing up in the South was that āblacks are always looking for ways to be offendedā. Basically the average conservative has taken on that role themselves all the way up to the unfortunate dope who is Trumpās press secretary.
That is not true. The dates of primaries have been traditionally left to the states. However both parties have worked to protect Iowa, NH, SC and Nevada's place as the first 4 contests. The Democrats went the farthest in 2008 when they stripped Michigan and Florida of all of their delegates for going early. Democrat rules require proportional representation in their primaries. Caucuses have a little more leeway.
The fact is that Clinton won because she got more votes than Sanders. Clinton was able to flip 9 states that Obama won in 2008. Sanders was able to flip only 1 state that went Clinton in 2008. In addition, Clinton clobbered Sanders in Florida and Texas wing both states by 2-1 margins. Clinton lost a string of deep south states that ran from Virginia to Mississippi to Obama. Sanders was able to only get around 20% of the vote in these states. Worth noting that in 2008, Texas Democrats held a two-step process. Clinton narrowly edged Obama in the primary but Obama swamped Clinton in the caucuses held that night.
The problem with fringe candidates is that they have a limited amount of appeal. Ronald Reagan was opposed by the establishment but he nearly beat Ford in 1976 and won the nomination in 1980.