Say what you will about Clinton, but she rigged the hell out of the machine

[ProfessorPlum]

24. what fairy tales?

that DWS set the debate schedule to limit the exposure of all candidates, guaranteeing no media oxygen for the non-presumptive nominees?

that the rich can keep the letter of the law but not the spirit by donating to each and every state, allowing them to funnel that money up to the candidate at the top of the DNC and creating a kickback system to the state committees and the superdelegates?

The primary _WAS_ over in March, and well before that, because any nominating process was going to come down to the superdelegates in the end, and they are in the pocket of the machine. Only an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates would have allowed them to make a switch. And putting our most populous and in many ways most progressive state at the absolute, bitter end, ensured that the more progressive candidates could only come from behind, never lead.

She will win, in the end, and part of that can be attributed to the uneven field that she and the DNC have been putting together for years. That is smart politics on her part, from where I'm sitting, but it doesn't mean she didn't rig it.