Voters not necessary. The media and party elite call it.

[Barack_America]

Congrats, on your coronation, Hillary.

It could not have unfolded more perfectly.

#oligarchy

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Suppress the Vote much?

[dchill]

3. Hope it works! Gosh, wouldn't it be embarrassing...

if Bernie won big anyway?

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Would so be a backfire, just like all her other actions. The podium fell.

[Barack_America]

11. Tomorrow and in November.

[Dont call me Shirley]

32. Blatant and Big time!

[Raster]

2. There is NOT a snowballs chance in hell that Clinton did not know...

...what AP was up to. And her "oh noes, we've still got elections to win" bullshit. Same shady-fucking-lady right up to the end.

[wendylaroux]

4. yup,she calls ALL the shots.don't think she doesn't.

so we have a cheater and a lunatic running for prez.

[Raster]

12. Ain't we grand!

Clinton will most likely be the nominee and may just eke out a win against Trump. And just minutes after taking her hand off of the Bible for the Oath of Office, she will be handed the first of many, many summonses and subpoenas. What a tragedy that the first Female POTUS will end up the most embattled POTUS and only serve one term, if she actually makes it to full term, which I somewhat doubt.

What a fucking loss for this country and the Democratic Party that the unbridled Clinton self-absorption, greed and hubris were allowed to rule the day. This could have been a glorious opportunity to re-align the Democratic Party and breathe new life into both our party and country, but instead, as a nation and a party, we are now forced to cater to the Amerikan Oligarchy and their sycophants.

[wendylaroux]

13. I know,Bernie is exactly what we needed. Such a pity.

[passiveporcupine]

28. I'm actually more concerned about her

taking her hand off the oath of office and putting it on that red button.

I don't trust her at all with this kind of power.

[Raster]

29. yes, I am too. There is a reason the neoconjobs have flocked to the Clinton banner...

...they recognize one of their own.

The Centurions of "New Rome" have found their new Caesar, and she wears a pantsuit.

Clinton has already displayed frightening capacity for authoritarian aggression. If she does reach the Oval Office, it is only a matter of time before she has us embroiled in an international conflict.

Consider this: Hillary's Iraq War vote. I maintain if there was ONE PERSON in Congress who had the inside info, it was Clinton. In addition to being privy to the inside information accorded to members of Congress, she was also privy to the Ex-POTUS CIA daily briefing. She was also more than just a passive First Lady; she was by their own admission, half of a very strong team. In other words, she had a damned good idea of what Saddam and Iraq did and did not have when it came to weaponry: she probably had seen the receipts! There is not doubt that Hillary voted for the bush*2 Iraq war, knowing that we were about to invade a sovereign country that had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11 and had no weapons of mass destruction. I don't think she was fooled by bush* as she claimed, I think Hillary Clinton wanted a war, I think she wanted lives on the line.

[passiveporcupine]

31. I wouldn't say she wanted lives on the line

I would say she didn't care that there were lives on the line, but otherwise, you are spot on.

[pangaia]

9. Not only did she know......

but the wizard was really at work this time...

This is so much more blatant than even 2000.

Filthy, disgusting campaign..

[Barack_America]

10. It was done to declare CA, "not a real primary".

Because she is going to lose badly.

[Biaviians]

5. It will backfire.

[intheflow]

6. Yep. With an especial "fuck you" shout out to Califormia voters.

[anigbrowl]

14. Funny, my household will be voting for her tomorrow with a smile. In CA.

Should we just ignore her strong showing in Puerto Rico as well as all the other contests where she's come first?

[HerbChestnut]

8. Oh it could have unfolded much smoother...

You can thank Bernie and the rest of us supporting him for throwing a wrench into the process.

[gaspee]

15. That's just stupid

They're calling it based on what VOTERS VOTED FOR!

[PepperHarlan]

16. That was my thought as well

Haven't millions of people in more than 40 states voted since February?

[Barack_America]

18. Okay, so why not let the last vote?

Answer: To head off an embarrassing loss in CA.

[PepperHarlan]

20. They called off tomorrow's primaries!1?1!!

[Barack_America]

27. Yup.

[gaspee]

21. OK, then

why did they call it on an off day for Trump - could it possibly be the first time the number actually went over the threshold - nah, couldn't be anything simple like that.

[Blaukraut]

17. The AP called it. The Party Elite didn't call a damn thing n/t

[Barack_America]

19. Mmm hmm. And who did the AP talk to?

And why were so many of them so willing to talk today?

Please, you're embarrassing yourself.

[gaspee]

22. Trump

they called it the same way for him so that kind of hurts your theory

[Blaukraut]

24. the only one who is embarrassing him/herself tonight is the one positing

various conspiracy theories. This jumping the gun by the AP was not in Clinton's best interest. Just read some of the posts in this forum. She'd probably much rather have claimed victory after all the votes were cast. But hey, far be it from me to get in the way of a good freakout.

[djean111]

23. Well, she won't get my vote.

And I will register unaffiliated tomorrow.

[mythology]

25. Your claims would make more sense if they weren't counting delegates

resulting from voting by voters. It really illustrates that what you're outraged about is that your candidate didn't win, but you can't bring yourself to admit that more voters preferred Clinton to Sanders, so you blame somebody else.

[Barack_America]

26. Oh, sorry, I didn't realize they moved the primaries to today.

I thought the AP said it was supers that put Hillary over tonight, not voters.

So, who won CA? Off to go search!

[panader0]

30. Do your votes even matter anymore?

The US is not a democracy.

[SidDithers]

33. Except that 24 million-ish voters have already spoken...

and they've overwhelmingly chosen Hillary.

That it became obvious that Hillary would win, before all of the votes had been cast, does not mean that the outcome was decided by someone other than the voters.

Sid

[mhatrw]

34. Hillagarchy it is. nt

[MohRokTah]

35. BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[AzDar]

36. But Lying For $Hillary Only BENEFITS Bernie!11 Haven't You HEARD?

[laserhaas]

37. It's going to be a mess

When she gets in..after all the stuff getting off Scot Free

[Marrah_G]

38. Her campaigns actions will have a detrimental effect come November

When people see such dishonest and sneaky actions it makes them far less likely to go out and cast a vote for her in November.

[Nye Bevan]

39. Weren't the votes cast by the voters an important factor in the media calling it?

So I'm not sure how you get to "voters not necessary".

[seabeyond]

40. You knew it before called and not a fuckin coronation. Voter made it happen. over 3 million for Hill