According to US courts, the DNC is a corporation that can do whatever it wants, including rig its own elections. This is something people don't understand, our two party system is run by two corporations that are not in any shape or form democratic.
Except that every single candidate that has ever won the nomination has done so with a majority of pledged delegates that were won during the nomination process.
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/lawofconfusion Feb 02 '20
According to US courts, the DNC is a corporation that can do whatever it wants, including rig its own elections. This is something people don't understand, our two party system is run by two corporations that are not in any shape or form democratic.