2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie just won Nevada! [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)I especially don't understand why it is done in layers, first electing county delegates on up, rather than resolving the final state delegate split on election day- based on the results that day. It should not be set up in a way that is subject to shifting results, but that is the way that it is set up. I know that the Clinton campaign would have accepted a few extra delegates to their total today if if were some of the Sanders county delegates who failed to show up.
Having said that you and other Clinton supporters have my sincere sympathy regarding this ridiculous way delegates are chosen. Yes I would have been among the wailer had Bernie lost delegates this way, and I would have been justified to be upset, just as you are now. But this isn't because the Sanders camp did anything improper. They just were better at showing up.