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In reply to the discussion: Hillary skepticism explained in 15 questions [View all]Beacool
(30,520 posts)More registered Democrats voted for Hillary in the primaries than voted for Obama. His slight vote advantage came from the open primaries where anyone can vote. His also slight pledged delegate advantage was due to the caucuses. Not a democratic way to choose a nominee in this day and age. Many voters cannot physically take the time to caucus. I have been saying for years that caucuses should be eliminated, this is not the 19th century. How can a candidate who won a primary by 100,000 votes get almost the same number of delegates as someone who won a caucus by 1,400 votes? There's something screwed up about the whole process.
Hillary won the majority of the big primary states and Obama won all the caucuses, except NV. The super delegates are the ones who tipped the nomination to him. That's another B.S. way of choosing a nominee. They should get rid of that fake process of having party insiders decide the nominee.
Regardless of the 2008 outcome, I would have said the same thing if Hillary had been the nominee. Get rid of caucuses and super delegates.