MTZehvor on 26 July 2016
| Shadow1980 said: Yeah, if the "Bernie or Bust" crowd comes to their damn senses. It was obvious from the polling data that he was never going to win, regardless of superdelegates or any supposed rigging of the primaries (the latter a patently ridiculous; in states with primaries instead of caucuses, Bernie's share of both the popular vote and the pledged delegates was effectively identical, which kind of disproves the notion that Hillary "stole" any delegates). |
...I don't think you quite understand the charges. The charges are that the DNC effectively acted as an additional campaigner for her, using their influence over reporters and meetings to encourage on-the-fence voters to vote for Hillary rather than Bernie (one email, for instance, had a DNC official working in West Va. and Kentucky asking if he should use Bernie's religion to try and win over votes for Hillary). It isn't that the DNC ignored or covered up votes for Bernie, it's that they actively helped Hillary win over voters, which a political party committee is not supposed to do in its own primary.
