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Democrats plan to nominate Biden virtually to avoid missing Ohio's ballot deadline
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No, when this happened in the past states made exceptions. Ohio Republicans are just being obstinate right now, just like their nominee.
Relying on the goodwill of republicans to make an exception seems like a poor strategy. This is an unforced error that could have been avoided.
For the last century, it's been commonplace for officials in both parties to make scheduling exceptions. This is quite literally unprecedented.
Of course, everything about the modern Republican party is unprecedented now.
We said this a ton during Obama's time in office. Look where we are now. Expecting things today to play out like they did in the past just seems extremely naive now.
It's a little ironic given that statement of yours is itself naive.
Much of the gov policy enforcement is good faith-based, which is obviously terrible, but what do you suggest though? Do you think the Republicans will go along with adjusting rules to be specific and enforced? They survive in-part due to these flimsy definitions and policies enforced by good faith.
Look how difficult it was just to get these exceptions passed. How the fuck are we going to fix any of that with a literal do-nothing house? Furthermore, what little bandwidth that does exist is undoubtedly being spent shoring up the loose threads that nearly snapped on and around J6.
You're talking about the Federal level, which has nothing to do with the DNC's current problem in Ohio. They've been running around all year trying to change the order in which the states vote. So far, most all of them have told the DNC to pound sand, including Ohio. This deadline did not spring up out of nowhere, and it's only a problem because of the DNC's poor planning.
Seriously what was the plan? Ignore the deadlines and expect a last-minute exception to be made? I'm not singing the praises of the Ohio GOP, and I agree they're being dicks about this, but who really caused this problem? Ohio didn't set the DNCC date. States run their elections how they want. A federal officer coming in and saying "No, do it this way because we said so" isn't how the this system was intended to function.
They are avoiding it, by holding the early roll call. Which also has the convenient side effect of formalizing the nomination before the convention, eliminating any unpleasantness at the convention itself.
Which shows how useless it is for the Ohio Republicans to be dragging their feet. The Democratic Nominee was always going to be on the ballot in Ohio. All the Republicans are doing is wasting everyone's time, and giving 24-hour news stations more meaningless things to use to fill time.
Dragging feet is Ohio Republicans favorite pastime:
Avoiding a very public protest at the convention by the Uncommitted folks.
There are only 35 uncommitted delegates so far, vs. 3600+ Biden delegates. I doubt the uncommitted folks will be heard even if they had the normal vote.
Lmao wow those ten people are going to be very public. I fully expect there to be protests regarding the Palestinian genocide and the Biden Admin's support for Israel, as there should be. Biden is going to he the nominee regardless, because he's the only candidate in the race and has the delegates. Conventions are scripted political theater unless there's a closely contested nomination, that you think there's something more to them belies a fundamental lack of knowledge about this process
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They've been falling into that trap ever since Trump announced. All the stuff that's 'tradition' or 'gentleman's agreement' or even actual laws that didn't bother to codify a punishment turned out to be easily broken without any electoral consequences. And 8 years later they still fucking fail to account for it.
Alabama this cycle as well, although they did pass the exception to allow Biden:
https://apnews.com/article/biden-ballot-access-alabama-ohio-2c802f24e4b88a359c84b180f0e363ec
Not that it matters, because Biden will not win either Alabama or Ohio.