Grass-roots Democrats revolt against party leaders.
Could a challenger in Florida take down DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
'Grass-roots Democrats are getting mad at their party’s leaders, and their dissatisfaction might soon find an outlet. In Florida, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is facing a high-voltage primary challenge for her House seat, in what is effectively a referendum against the direction taken by the party leadership in recent years.
Much of the anger at Shultz stems from what critics see as her mishandling of the Democratic primary debates. Supporters of candidate Bernie Sanders accuse Wasserman Schultz of scheduling as few debates as possible and contend that the ones she scheduled often took place at odd times that seemed designed to minimize viewership — during college football games or on holiday weekends.
This can be read as an effort to help Hillary Clinton, whose 2008 campaign Wasserman Schultz managed. Former candidate Martin O’Malley went so far as to accuse the chairwoman of “rigging the process and stacking the deck.” And even if that’s not true, the lack of Democratic debates ceded the public spotlight to the Republicans, allowing them to propagate their conservative ideas while Democrats took a backseat. According to Nielsen ratings, the combined viewership of the debates before the Iowa primaries were 42.5 million for the Democrats and 116 million for the Republicans.
As Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel argued, “The lack of debates is already inflicting needless damage on both the party and Clinton.” A number of DNC officers have broken into open dissent against Wasserman Schultz. As Bloomberg Politics reporter John Heilemann wrote, those officials say she is “endangering Democratic prospects in 2016 and beyond.”'>>>
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they both did fine....I thought bernie was a little cranky but other than that....