> Why does everyone think that hacking the DNC amounted to "hacking the election". In the American two-party political system, it is very important who the two

> Why does everyone think that hacking the DNC amounted to "hacking the election". In the American two-party political system, it is very important who the two candidates are, and how they are chosen. While it is formally only the business of the two political parties to choose their candidates however they see fit, in practice also the primaries are an important part of democracy. If America had a more modern multiparty system, the decisions of individual parties would be less important for the whole. Most European countries run their presidential elections in two rounds: First round all parties can run their candidates, and second round is between the two winners of the first round. In America the primaries pretty much take the role of the first round in the European model. (Also, the whole idea of counting votes instead of counting winners per electoral district is a bit alien to the American system, so it's not easy to see how the European system could be implemented in America.)