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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, Hillary got more votes. Not just delegates, like your cute little chart there shows, but actual individual votes. Amongst DNC primary voters, she was the more popular candidate.

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  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Man, this was your chart. You just had me run around like a service animal to find it for you.

    Anyway, I think this quote from this article is pretty funny.

    after several months of litigation during which DNC attorneys argued that the DNC would be well within their rights to select their own candidate.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The argument before the court was that legally the DNC could select their own candidate, not that it did. So it woudn’t matter if the allegations were true or not.

      The other side argued that since the case went to court, the facts of the case must be “true enough to be heard.” Which is a pretty low standard to clear TBH.

      “Well we argued it in court, so it must be true enough to be heard.” The standard governing the motion to dismiss requires the Court to accept all well-pled allegations as true for purposes of deciding the motion. Thus, the Court recited the allegations of the Complaint that it was required to accept as true, and in so doing, acknowledged that the allegations were well pled.

      Which may technically true, but does not mean that the DNC prevented Bernie from being their candidate.

      Did the DNC select their own candidate? Or did they go with the candidate that their voters selected?

      Because by the number, Bernie was short by a few million votes.

      en.wikipedia.org/…/2016_Democratic_Party_presiden…

      I’m sure that if he had won the primary, then the DNC would have backed him against the wishes of their establishment supporting members, doubly so in light of recent events regarding the NYC mayoral race.

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