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A write-in campaign for President Joe Biden won the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday, after the state was stripped of its delegates by the Democratic National Committee.

Voters who wrote in Biden’s name beat out Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and self-help author Marianne Williamson, according to three news networks, with early counts of unprocessed write-in ballots outnumbering votes for Phillips by a more-than-three-to-one margin.

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[–] Pohl 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Politics is weird sometimes. Here was a thing that by law, didn’t matter. But still, it did kind of matter. By winning write in, it gets harder for the media to pretend that any of the also-rans are relevant to the race.

If someone else had won, that would be the only story today. Nothing would be juicier media than a sitting president losing a primary. The fact that Biden wasn’t on the ballot would fade into the background. Every news headline today would boil down to “trump strong, Biden weak”. And we’d slide just that much closer to dictatorship.

[–] Steve 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

it gets harder for the media to pretend that any of the also-rans are relevant to the race.

Do you mean the Republicans? As far as I could tell, the major networks basically ignored the Democrat hopefuls

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I took pohl to mean if biden had not won it would have been a big news item but now its not much of one.

[–] givesomefucks -3 points 11 months ago

Why wouldn't they?

The DNC stripped NH of their delegates because the Republicans in charge of the state government wouldn't change the state law that says NH has to hold their primary first. So the Dem primary results literally don't matter...

What's weird is the major networks are ignoring that and acting like Biden winning zero delegates means anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's ironic, because under fascism, they wouldn't be able to be journalists. They'd have to write fake pieces that are approved by the State, and most news orgs would be shut down in service to that.

They're digging their own graves.

[–] Rapidcreek 0 points 11 months ago

I would be impressed by this, but I remember when Lisa Murkowski was not on the ballot and still won by write in for the Senate from Alaska. You had to spell her name exactly.