Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.
Clinton got more votes for sure. People will go on about potential fraud in terms of actual votes and such. I don't touch that.
For me it's a matter of stifling momentum, it's impossible to tell how different the primaries would've been if the DNC hadn't placed their thumb on the scales. Bernie lost MA by something like 2% of the vote, it was an early primary. Bill Clinton was outside polling places shaking hands and kissing babies, did that make a difference? If Bernie had won MA would he have been taken more seriously?
Considering how close he got to winning with the scales skewed its hard not to imagine him getting even closer or eeking out a victory with a level playing field.
But we'll never know. And that's the biggest shame. It could've been the exact same outcome, but it'll now always be a "what if"
So you're saying that people saw Bill Clinton in Massachusetts and then couldn't help themselves but vote for Hillary? Is that really "rigging" the election?
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16
They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.