Tulsi Gabbard launches petition to end Democratic Party superdelegate process

[rjsquirrel]

85. Not what I said

I agree that superdelegates are irrelevant to the outcome. Your study (that you said wasn't a study lol) said public polling creates a measurable bandwagon effect. Even if true it's irrelevant to the SD issue. And it's obviously and trivially true that the media report elections like horse races and popularity breeds more popularity just like in junior high school.

Bernie was less popular. For reasons. Not because someone fixed the system. Obama beat the SD and polling influence in 08 by becoming more popular. Bernie couldn't do it. That's not rigged, that's politics anywhere from a student council election to the presidency.

People have to vote for you to win. They have to like you and believe you and consider you electable to win a presidential primary. How other people vote affects subsequent voting.

If we held a single national one day primary in January or February Bernie would have been creamed worse than he was because HE relied on a bandwagon effect to get as close as he did, which was never really all that close to begin with. You dont win democratic primaries with mostly white voters.

Time for your next juvenile snarl since you can't refute the substance of what I'm saying. Go ahead and have the last word, I'm feeling magnanimous toward the losing side at the moment.

Start your own party or vote for Trump or embrace the irrelevant Greens or stay home. It don't matter to me dude. But you lost a primary that had defined and longstanding rules you knew going in.