Biden: "I Never Thought Hillary Was The Correct Candidate"

[karynnj]

96. I believe each STATE's Democrats determine how their election is done -- not the DNC

Not to mention, looking at the results of the NON BINDING primary in Washington State ignores that in ANY state with both, with the first one binding, the losers' supporters have a stronger reason to show up. If the state had rules like Texas, where both mattered to the allocation of delegates, more Sanders people would have done more to GOTV for the primary. Not to mention, Bernie did not get ALL the regular delegates - he got 74, Clinton got 27. As to WA state's 17 superdelegates, 6 are listed as "none" and 11 declared for Hillary.

It is absurd to say that method of allocating delegates in WA was done to favor Bernie. The rules were known going in and I know in some parts of the state, there were very very few people supporting Clinton at the regional caucuses. My daughter's caucus had a grand total of ONE HRC supporter.

The DNC was not favoring Sanders, the already existing rules supported Sanders. In fact, though primaries favored both Obama and Sanders versus Clinton, John Kerry won all of them except NC, where Edwards won his home state after Kerry was the defacto nominee, in 2004 - over Dean or Edwards. Some of the blame should fall on Clinton's campaigns in both elections. Kerry's results suggest the simplistic answer that somehow populists do better than they should in caucuses.