Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017)

[Jim Lane]

323. Do you have a link about "agreed to let Bernie run"?

The important thing is that I agree with you that this was more than tipping the scales. Furthermore, regardless of what one thinks of Bernie as a Democrat, there were other candidates, too. Chafee had been elected to the Senate as a Republican but had changed to independent and then to Democrat. Webb had been appointed to a post by Reagan but was thereafter elected as a Democrat. And O'Malley was a lifelong Democrat.

In light of these facts, all the Bernie-bashing in this thread is just a deflection.

The point I'm querying is where you write, "The Dem Party agreed to let Bernie run as a Dem."

I see many posts on DU that seem to assume, as yours does, that, sometime in 2015, the DNC passed a resolution that magnanimously allowed Bernie to run -- or at least that the DNC failed to exercise its power to bar him from running. That's just not true. Whether Bernie can appear on a primary ballot depends on that state's law (petition signatures or whatever). The DNC doesn't control it.

I'm not knowledgeable about caucus law. Caucuses are run by the parties, so it's at least conceivable that the DNC could have decreed that no caucus would be allowed to select a pro-Bernie delegate, even if the delegate himself or herself was a Democrat. But the majority of states held primaries, which are financed, conducted, and governed by the state's election authorities. I don't see how the DNC could have dictated to state election authorities who would appear on their ballots.