EXPOSED: Leaked Emails Show DNC Colluded with Media to Push Clinton Nomination

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21. The DNC's PR pros trying to work with individuals

in the media to encourage favorable coverage of their strongest candidate is not "collusion" with media. This is what political parties are supposed to do, and most MSM weren't particularly cooperative anyway.

It was the GOP that had made sure a week never went by after 2008 without negative coverage of Hillary Clinton (this with the collusion of much of the MSM) -- because they believed she was going to run and were afraid she was going to be too strong to beat.

You would not have a problem at all if Bernie Sanders had won the "invisible primary" by demonstrating himself to be the DNC's best chance for keeping the White House. But Bernie was very unpopular with his colleagues and knew he would be rejected, so he didn't even try to compete early on to be the choice the DNC would put most of its backing behind. And as we know he did remarkably well anyway, surprising himself too, so no doubt new books on this are being written right now.

Very good article from 538 about how the picking process works, for those who like to understand.

Before any votes are cast, presidential candidates compete for the support of influential members of their party, especially elected officials like U.S. representatives, senators and governors. During the period known as the “invisible primary,” these “party elites” seek to coalesce around the candidates they find most acceptable as their party’s nominee. Over the past few decades, when these elites have reached a consensus on the best candidate, rank-and-file voters have usually followed.

In the book “The Party Decides” (2008), the most comprehensive study of the invisible primary, the political scientists Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel and John Zaller evaluated data on endorsements made in presidential nomination contests between 1980 and 2004 and found that “early endorsements in the invisible primary are the most important cause of candidate success in the state primaries and caucuses.”

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/