Does it bother you that millions of Democratic Primary votes are meaningless?

[AviatorTom]

For the first time in history, since Primary voting became the way to select a Presidential candidate, decades ago, the 2024 Democratic candidate did not receive a single primary vote. All of the Democrats who voted in Primaries, and the millions of dollars spent to run them, are wasted and totally meaningless.

Does that bother you? Should it bother you?

[HighValue]

The reason they chose Kamala is because she was on Biden's ticket and would then have access to the campaign funds that were raised for Biden. Otherwise they would have chosen someone else, but they wanted the over $100 million they would only get with Kamala as their choice.

It is just another example of elections being corrupt in the USA. I also don't like how in the primaries, when votes are cast for a candidate, they also are cast against the others, BUT when a candidate drops out, they get to hand their votes/delegates to another candidate of their choosing, even though many of those votes were cast AGAINST the person that gets them.

For example, to beat Bernie Sanders, TWICE other candidates dropped out and handed their delegates to another (one time to Hillary, and the other time to Biden) to beat Sanders. Even though I don't agree with any of the democrat candidates on most of their policies, Sanders was scr ewed over by that system twice and the winner of those two primaries was illegitimate in my opinion.

[OlderAndWiser]

Would you expect less from the Undemocratic Party?

[Anonymous]

I get you're a Republican and quite bias so I won't bother getting too into it. But there's nothing to get upset about. The only viable candidate running dropped out and only one person chose to run in his place. In the reverse scenario 4 years ago, none of you would have accepted Bill Weld as the replacement candidate. It's easier to do the holier-than-thou act about it when it just so happens to have occurred in the other party.

[AviatorTom]

You must be new on GaG, or you would know I'm a middle-of-the-road Independent. I think it's sad what the Democrats have done this year. Kamala Harris may be the Democrat's choice but it certainly wasn't democratic... how ironic is that?

[dustybiker2]

It should bother Trump should he still not win.

[dustybiker2]

Thank you for mho

[lightbulb27]

yes and as well back when people got to vote the firest time for her (2020 presidential run democratic primaries), they didn't... she got no support. good luck finding that on the internet though...

but then she got hired for a big job because of her experience and skill set?

it's like the people don't support her...

that's not democracy is it?

Trump got votes... as a contrast

[FunkyMonkee]

They don't care. They'll take their votes any way they can get them. Even from dead people that voted several times over.
Didn't you know? They make up the rules as they go along! But, if WE did that!! HOOOLLLLYYYYY FUCK!! There'd be HELL to pay!!!

[NamerOfStars]

Yes- even finding PICTURES of different states' primary ballots has been difficult, when it should be the easiest thing in the world. There's something (or more likely, multiple somethings) untoward going on. I don't know WHAT, yet, but it's something (s).

Still more evidence that Washington was right, and political parties are a bad idea.

[NathanDavis]

just the same as many other votes don't really matter...

unless you're a swing state, they're neutralized and make no difference

[BCRanger10]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the last brave defenders of democracy!

[exitseven]

What bothers me more is the number of illegal aliens that have registered to vote.

[dustybiker2]

Thought you said republicans could never find proof of this claim?

[gorydetails]

It doesn't bother them. It should, especially considering how much whining has been done about protecting democracy.

[onedarkcloud]

The finest work yet by THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA, FUCKING Americans again!

[msc545]

I don't really care much about this. What I truly care about is the fact that it was worthwhile in order to decrease the probability that we're going to be stuck with the orange monster as the next president.

[Anonymous]

What disturbs me is that I am always hearing about American politics.

[RedInnocent69]

No. Parties have rules. Democrats followed theirs.