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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I'm pretty sure both I and the poster above me understand how delegates and super delegates are selected. This is it. Way back in the Olden Days The Party USED to wait until the voters had spoken to determine the Democratic candidate. That is no longer the case. The Party has already selected their candidate and that candidate is Hillary Clinton. The Democratic Party Machine is in place, it's formidable, it's controlled by billionaires and it is able to enact machinations most of which you guys haven't even thought of yet. You underestimate their power at your own peril. Remember what they did to Dean. That wasn't Republicans that pulled that shit, it was the Democrats (Kerry, Gebhardt and Edwards with the help of the DNC to be exact). The chosen candidate at that time was Kerry who proceeded to lose to the Worst. President. Ever. I know. I watched it from the inside. Please, don't be naïve. We must be ready for the most vile, unprincipled dirty tricks every bit as nasty as anything the Republicans can pull off and that includes buying off delegates via the convention process.