• @[email protected]
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    202 months ago

    In this thread: people who don’t know how poorly this went every other time they switched.

    • @gAlienLifeform
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      62 months ago

      Correlation isn’t causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorly

      • @Wogi
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        92 months ago

        One time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated.

        One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out)

        One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that’s not a joke.

        And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it.

        In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.

            • @mojofrododojo
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              22 months ago

              Grow a fucking spine

              why do you only censor one side of the argument? I didn’t start the shit talk.

                • @mojofrododojo
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                  -22 months ago

                  “the nazis were just doing their jobs man.”

                  • @jordanlundM
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                    42 months ago

                    More like “I don’t have time to read every comment in every thread, reports float to the top.”

          • @[email protected]
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            -42 months ago

            There are no rules preventing Democrats from changing their nominee. The Heritage Foundation is full of shit and you’re agreeing with them because you like their position (keep Biden).

            • @WoahWoah
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              2 months ago

              There aren’t rules against changing a nominee. There are rules about being on state ballots for the presidential election, and those rules vary from state to state.

              Just because you were not aware of that does not make it untrue.