U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than Reported Earlier

Re:U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than ... by wredcoll on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:26PM (#45185308)

There's a number of things going on here, but the short of it is that to become the democratic nominee you need to convince a whole bunch of people, including some super delegates. Hillary Clinton did a better job of this than Bernie Sanders.

How she did it could probably be the subject of an entire book, but no one has ever come up with any particularly scandalous stories about it so far.

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Re:U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than ... by hungmung on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:32PM (#45185395)

Yes, and the superdelegates, whose job was to make sure people didn't pick the wrong candidate (how democratic of them), picked probably the least popular politician in America at the time.

Trump likely would have lost against almost any other candidate, but he had help from the Democratic party, who treated Hil's nom as a coronation.

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Re:U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than ... by wredcoll on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:24PM (#45203979)

This is such a silly hill to die on. Hillary clinton won the majority of voters both in the democratic nomination and in the national election.

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Re:U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than ... by hungmung on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:16PM (#45204762)

Yeah she was so popular they had to rig caucuses in her favor, and superdelegates had to defy their constituents.

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