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>There was no primary rigging. No vote tampering or anything to that level. But the emails show how embedded the party leadership is with the media and how muc
by unabridged 9y ago
>There was no primary rigging.
No vote tampering or anything to that level. But the emails show how embedded the party leadership is with the media and how much they can use their influence. I believe pushing the superdelegate count everyday for months before even the first primary is one of the worst things I've seen.
- dragonwriter 9y agoMedia including committed superdelegates in primary election delegate counts is not at all new (having a candidate that isn't a sitting President or Vice President gain such a strong commitment before a single primary vote is cast is unusual, especially when they don't have similar runaway support in the electorate.)
- lobf 9y agoOh my goodness, are you telling me that the party was more behind the decades-long member who had spent her time building alliances and relationships over the guy who joined the party a few months before?