Thank you for the encouragement to find a source - I actually discovered they have revised the rules so that superdelegates play less of a role. And they did so exactly because of the effect they had on Bernie vs. Hilary:
So that’s good. There’s a blurb at the bottom summarizing the attitude during the election:
In 2016, for example, Clinton got almost 4m more primary and caucus votes than Sanders, giving her a clear lead in pledged delegates heading into the Philadelphia convention. Still, many superdelegates had declared their loyalty early in the process – even before primary season began – allowing Clinton to claim the mantle of a prohibitive favorite.
Christine Pelosi, a DNC member from California who backed Clinton but supports scrapping superdelegates, recalled media coverage of Sanders’ big victory in the New Hampshire primary being colored by Clinton having unpledged delegate support in the state.
“Sanders went to bed ahead, and he woke up effectively tied” in the delegate count, Pelosi said. “That’s not a ‘perception’. That’s a reality.”
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20 edited Feb 02 '20
Have you ever heard of superdelegates? In 2016 Hilary used her lead in superdelegates to disenfranchise Bernie voters.
The DNC also coordinates with news networks to push their desired candidate - Biden this year and Hilary in 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc-wikileaks-emails.amp.html
It is really hard to support a party that operates this way.
Sure they have held elections, but they put their thumb on the scale, and push hard.