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conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days agoNah, miss me with that shit. The way super delegates were set up in the ‘16 primary was total crap, I remember that the media had basically called it for Hillary on almost day 1 of the primary season because every superdelegate announced (before their state primary!) that they were going for Hillary. I think that the HRC campaign really thought they were going to fold in all of the Bernie voters’ votes, money, and energy.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Delegation process aside, millions more people still choce the winners.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I mean, I don’t put too much stock in that because there’s a bandwagon effect to voting. If people perceived that Hillary or Biden is already the winner, as the media portrayed, then folks are more likely to vote for them. I think a fair election would have seen 2020’s primary looking much more like the 2016 Republican primary, where it was hardly a foregone conclusion that Trump would win.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In 2016 the four elections before super Tuesday. One had Bernie win New Hampshire with 60% for 15 delegates and Hillary 9 delegates, the other three went to Hillary with 49%, 52%, and 73% for a total of 82 to Bernie’s 50.
After Super Tuesday where Hillary won 8 of the 11 states she had a lead 197 delegates and in the middle of march won another 8 out of 12 states for a lead of 320 delegates. In late march Bernie saw a small comeback of 7 state victory and the overbroad democrats out of 9 contests.
From April through June Hillary had won 14 contests out of 20, including Puerte Rico, DC, and Guam as well as 11 more states.
At this point HRC had 16,914,722 votes and 2,842 delegates to Bernie Sander’s 13,206,428 votes and 1,820 delegates. It was a long, drawn out primary race with a very clear winner by millions of votes.
So why do people keep spreading the lie that it was rigged? Because they don’t want Democrats to win. They want us to get mad at our own party and splinter into smaller factions.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I did vote for Hillary, for all the good it did.