• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What happened to letting the voters decide?

    “Everyone needs to get out and vote!”

    voters start bickering over who to vote for

    “NOT LIKE THAT!”

    If the man is too old, OK, but we all knew his age a year ago.

    Which is why its crazy he didn’t have any kind of primary contender. Hell, its crazy he didn’t just wrap this at one term and pass the torch to any of a number of popular and highly competent governors.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      I totally agree with you. My speculation is that people in power in the DNC didn’t want to push for a younger candidate because then that candidate would immediately seize a lot of power. Perhaps they were disagreeing on who would be the best person, and they figured that some old man is low risk because he’s going to retire soon enough anyway. But that’s all blind speculation. A lot of what the DNC does happens behind closed doors.