Baskin-Robbins is Adding a New Flavor - Bill DeBlasio to join Democratic Primary Race (campaign, Reagan)

[citidata18]

It's amazing that all of these people who have zero chance of winning (and havr no name recognition) are wasting the America's time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill...-reports%3famp

[Ringo1]

Originally Posted by citidata18

It's amazing that all of these people who have zero chance of winning (and havr no name recognition) are wasting the America's time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill...-reports%3famp

Ugh. Just what we need - another mediocre candidate.

[WaldoKitty]

I put him in the Never Wuz category.

[canudigit]

I wonder if the DNC has chosen the winner yet?

[Ringo1]

Originally Posted by canudigit

I wonder if the DNC has chosen the winner yet?

I don't know but the RNC certainly has. They are busy trying to prevent anyone from running against Trump in the primary. Rigged system, eh?

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by Ringo1

I don't know but the RNC certainly has. They are busy trying to prevent anyone from running against Trump in the primary. Rigged system, eh?

It's funny how the incumbents just automatically get their parties nomination nowadays. It didn't use to work that way. A lot of the single term presidents of the 19th century were single term because they lost in their own primaries, not in the general. Something to think about.....

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

It's funny how the incumbents just automatically get their parties nomination nowadays. It didn't use to work that way. A lot of the single term presidents of the 19th century were single term because they lost in their own primaries, not in the general. Something to think about.....

There were a lot of nominees that were decided in the smoky back room of the conventions too.

There is nothing at all new with an incumbent President getting a stiff challenge from a member of his party in the primaries. Even FDR, who was the most popular President in our history, won the nomination twice by the skin of his teeth only after a prolonged fight on the convention floor that was followed by another long fight behind close doors.

We just haven't seen one of those convention fights for a while. The last one I can remember was in 1976, when Reagan came very close to taking the nomination away from Gerald Ford the incumbent.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by banjomike

There were a lot of nominees that were decided in the smoky back room of the conventions too.

There is nothing at all new with an incumbent President getting a stiff challenge from a member of his party in the primaries. Even FDR, who was the most popular President in our history, won the nomination twice by the skin of his teeth only after a prolonged fight on the convention floor that was followed by another long fight behind close doors.

We just haven't seen one of those convention fights for a while. The last one I can remember was in 1976, when Reagan came very close to taking the nomination away from Gerald Ford the incumbent.

Edward Kennedy primaried Jimmy Carter in 1980