They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election
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The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is investigating a robocall that went out to voters in the state telling them not to vote in the upcoming Democratic...

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    This is how incumbent presidents are always treated. It’s normal and fair and strategically sound.

    Really?

    I never heard of any party stripping a state of their primary delegates because of something completely out of control of the state party… Especially when it’s a state that routinely votes against the party favorite.

    Can you let me know some other times this happened?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      In every election, the incumbent is given preferential treatment and generally treated as the de facto candidate. In which election are you thinking of that this was not the case?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Sure…

        But when has the national party taken a state’s delegates away?

        Ideally for something outside of the states party control, because that’s what just happened. And for a state that routinely votes against the national party’s chosen candidate.

        But I’ll take any recent examples of a state losing their primary delegates because the national party yanked them away.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Welp, I guess I was right and this is totally unprecedented in modern American politics…

          Still don’t understand why so many people are ok with this tho

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        You’re actually proving the point. The people who ran against him demanded funding and equal access to Party resources, but they were denied. The incumbent party will always tilt the field toward the incumbent president.

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Except you literally said “nobody made a fuss.” Several people did.

          Because not everyone agrees it’s “normal and fair and strategically sound.”

          Just because “this is the way things are done” is an awful argument. Slavery was legal once, too, and people argued “this is the way things are done” for that, too.

          It’s a weak argument to say “well this is normal.” So was segregation until it wasn’t? Lots of morally dubious things have been argued with the “well this is normal and how we’ve always done it” bullshit.

          If you can come up with a better argument to support it than “this is how we do it and it just is and you need to accept it” then I will listen.