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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by mason240 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:32AM (#12262037)
>First, parties are clubs and they can have their own rules about their internal elections and campaigns.

Literally no one is saying otherwise. This is such a tired and ridiculous strawman.

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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by mtanski on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:45AM (#12262596)
> Literally no one is saying otherwise

Nice, Argumentum ad populum.

After following this election pretty closely I have observed that many people do not in fact understand how the parties operate and that the primaries are a party and not a legal construct. It's possible that people either have faulty ideas how the party process is run, or just do not have enough experience with it (many new Bernie voters).

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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by specialist on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:00PM (#12270376)
"I have observed that many people do not in fact understand how the parties operate"

This generalization includes people in the party too.

"and that the primaries are a party and not a legal construct."

The primaries and caucuses are legally recognized party constructs.

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