2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAngry over superdelegates? Send this reply to DNC fundraising pitches:
I got a request for money from Wasserman-Schultz after the NH primary. Here is how I advise responding:
I am disgusted with the DNC over the superdelegate effort to rig this election by giving Clinton as many delegates as Sanders in NH even though he got 60 percent of the vote and she only got 38 percent. The people should be electing candidates, not superdelegates who support party insiders that the voters want OUT.
I will not be giving a dime to the party until it scraps the superdelegate system. And for now, it should instruct superdelegates already elected to vote for whoever the American people ELECTED whether that's Sanders or Clinton--not overturn the will of the people.
Its bad enough to have Republicans steal our votes, now the DNC is doing the same. Please restore democracy to the Democratic Party.
(Note: Whether you are a Hillary or Bernie supporter you can give directly to your candidate, and stop supporting this subversion of democracy that the DNC has promulgated through its debate shennanigans and the superdelegate scam to let the party leaders pick your president. As for which candidate has the best chance to beat the GOP, should that be OUR decision to make, right or wrong, not the superdelegates hand-picked by the powers-that-be?)
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)"I'm contributing to individual candidates. Please take me off your call list."
No drama.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)olen1009
(1 post)It's even worse than just the super-delegate thing, in which each SD can vote however they like, even if "will of the people" vote overwhelmingly against the candidate chosen by the SD.
What's worse is than even this permission of the super-delegates to vote however they want: Apparently, the DNC's rules allow even the regular delegates to vote for whomever they like, regardless of the actual majority vote in their district.
As someone else said, this is a perfect example of what happened in the book Animal Farm, where all animals were equal, but some more equal than others.