• spectre@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Superdelegates don’t vote until the convention, potentially they could have still nominated Clinton if Sanders won the pledged delegates, but it never came up, since he didn’t. Like I’m not contesting that the party establishment favored Clinton, but you can’t say they circumvented the will of the voters when the nominee was the person who won the popular vote.

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      10 hours ago

      Throughout the primary, the media counted all the superdelegates as Clinton votes, regardless of their theoretical obligation to vote for whomever won their state’s primary. Voters were relentlessly bombarded with the notion that it was impossible for Sanders to obtain the nomination. Yeah, she got more votes, but like, shit wasn’t fair, man.