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Martin O'Malley

murielm99

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3. They need to change their primary system and

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 18, 2016, 05:24 PM

Oct 2016

nominating procedures if they want to avoid this in the future. They don't need rogue candidates any more than we do.

Democrats need to keep our delegate and super delegate system, to encourage more states to have closed primaries, and to do away with the caucuses in states that have them. This is up to the states, but they should look at this.

O'Malley is a good man. I would be happy to see him as President someday.

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O'Malley: Trump 'hijacked the Republican Party’s nomination' [View all] elleng Oct 2016 OP

The hijacking of the republiklan party says a lot about trump - and asiliveandbreathe Oct 2016 #1

He didn't hijack anything you are rscist misoginist party Foggyhill Oct 2016 #2

They need to change their primary system and murielm99 Oct 2016 #3

I love Martin, but the GOP wasn't hijacked. CrispyQ Oct 2016 #4