A candidate that gets 35% of the votes shouldn't win. But a candidate that gets 25% should!

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140. Voters don't have a say: delegates do

They are the ones who vote for the nominee.That’s how it works, and has since the smoke-filled rooms were eliminated.

When you are voting in a primary you are voting for delegates, who are pledged to vote for that candidatemat the nominating convention. They can change their minds, though it is rare. In addition to these pledged delegates from each state there are unpledged delegates sent by each state (usually the governor, if a Democrat,, state party chair and vice chair, etc.) plus US Democratic senators and congresspersons. They vote too, but this time only if there is no majority on the first vote.

This isn’t a general election. It’s a party’s primary. Sanders, who is not a Democrat, should drop to his knees and thank the party for letting hun in their primary at all (twice!)

After these debacles with Sanders and Bloomberg (the alte kakker interlopers, as I think of them) I think the rules should be changed to disallow participation from anyone who has not been registered continuously as a Democrat for the previous four years.