Didn’t we just have a supreme Court decision that said states can’t ban presidential candidates from the national ballot?
uh, it was BLUE states?
Yes, for a completely unrelated reason. There have been filling deadlines for candidates at basically every level of government for a very long time and those have never been successfully challenged in court. And even with the most liberal Judges on the SCOTUS likely wouldn’t bat an eye at them. The problem here isn’t Alabama (for once) it’s the DNC being so high on it’s own shit that they assumed the laws wouldn’t be applied to them. Sure, the State Legislature could pass a law temporarily waiving that requirement. It seems awful stupid to bet on it when the convention could happen a week earlier and avoid the whole thing.
Biden is missing all these states, because the DNC set their convention for so late in the summer, it missed the deadline to notify states who the party’s nominee is to be on the ballot.
DNC can easily move the convention up and Biden be on all ballots.
But I’m case you haven’t noticed, the unelected people running the DNC tend to make ridiculous demands and never back down.
There’s a decent chance they won’t do the very easy solution of moving the convention up.
If they thought rules applied to them, they’d have checked the most basic part of our political system to see when signups were due.
I think the DNC wants Trump to win. Has the Biden administration looked to see if bad actors are not running it?
I think you’re right, and the Biden admin is complicit in this plot. Dems don’t want to lead, they want to fundraise off of “orange man bad!”
Just move the f’ing convention. It’s not just Alabama
Ohio too…
The people running the DNC are completely fucking incompetent if they can’t even work a fucking calendar.
Why are we letting this group of unelected idiots be so involved with our political system?
I think that might be an unfair assessment of the situation, at least in Alabama.
They’re clearly playing favorites, it’s not the first time a party didn’t meet the deadline and they’ve always been accommodated.
it’s not the first time a party didn’t meet the deadline and they’ve always been accommodated.
I know both parties missed it in 2020, so some states moved it for both.
But thats the only time I’ve heard of it happening.
And while republicans and trump finally got their shit together and figured out how a calendar works, the DNC and Biden did not.
There is a very easy fix here, the DNC follows the rules and moves up their convention. And hopefully they can remember to look at a calendar in 2028.
But why in the absolute fuck are we still letting them run the only other option when they’re this fucking stupid?
Like, did you already forget about them demanding the NH party violate state election law a few months ago?
This is an established pattern of behavior: the DNC doesn’t think rules apply to them.
That should scare the shit out of everyone
I’m going to not be the cynic and I’ll assume that they will move the date 4 days later for the DNC, like the 7 days they did for the RNC in 2020 with Trump. I hope our political system rewards my faith.
It won’t.
Even if they do, some other bullshit will be afoot.
Because its Alabama, the Alabama of the United States
Is there any other alabama?
If there is… it must suck getting confused for 'Bama all the time.
Thanks, 'Bama
apparently there’s an Alabama, Romania; Alabama Ghana; and an Alabama Hill, Queensland, Australia.
now I’m curious what those places are like.
Google maps sent me to a park, for Alabama in Romania. It’s effectively a city park, but in a village. Feels like the kind of thing that gets built for fraud purposes. A couple sports (football, basketball, whatever) would’ve served the village kids much better than park benches.
I dunno. I just looked at it on street view… it seems a decent playground at least.
It’s empty, so, maybe you’re right, but its not straight up awful like some of the places I’ve seen.
‘The Florida Panhandle’ is a common nickname for ‘Lower Alabama’ so I can understand why it might be forgotten as another Alabama…
Hope in one hand, and shit in the other.
Oh shucks, and he was so likely to win Alabama’s electors too…
