Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether

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86. That alone wasn't why it was extremely unlikely for

others to win. She worked her butt off for years to become a great, electable candidate, and none of the others had. Virtually all Democratic professionals across the nation supporter her for good reasons, and almost none did most of the others for good reasons. Bernie started out with 0 support among his colleagues as you'll recall, the people who knew him best.

Another "wonder" is what difference the press's extremely distorted horse race coverage made. Clinton's advantages going in were overwhelming and Sanders never really came close, but a profitable horse race was created by fooling the electorate into believing it was much closer than it was. The very day there were no longer enough delegates unwon for Sanders to win, the NYT and many other media soft-pedaled that information. The NYT instead claimed Sanders got a surge from the previous day's vote in normal header type. The article below that with a header in tiny type disclosed the reality. Really!

Bad as that was, even more egregious was that voters were never informed that a significant portion of the vote for Sanders was Trump supporters acting as spoilers. Some were conservative members of the Democratic Party (in conservative KY or WV, I forget,exit polls showed these spoilers at 37% and 44% of all those who voted for Sanders!). Others were conservatives voting Democrat in open primaries. But all admitted they had no intention of voting for Sanders if he won and would vote Republican.

How many good Democrats supporting Sanders would have voted for him if they'd realized he had no chance of winning the Democratic primary, and that the numbers looked even worse for winning the GE? Hillary supporters of course would have voted for Sanders, but a significant percentage of his own primary voters would have gone to Trump.