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[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Why don't the primaries in 2016 and 2020 count? Just curious, asking in good faith.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For one they did not, at all, care for the results of the votes. Like in 2016 they just used Superdelegates to invalidate all the races Clinton had lost.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

For one they did not, at all, care for the results of the votes. Like in 2016 they just used Superdelegates to invalidate all the races Clinton had lost.

They did no such thing. Fuck's sake. We lost by some 10% points, against Hillary fucking Clinton. This idea that the better candidate will automatically be the more popular one is some utter fucking delusion I keep seeing from the left.

I voted for Bernie twice. I would vote for him again in a heartbeat, age and all. That's not the same as peddling "The DNC STOLE the primary from us!"

[-] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

At the very, very least, they are guilty of lopsided financial support and advertising dollars behind each candidate. The rest is largely supposition, though certainly COULD be true. Sometimes it's easier to accept that than that the other voters are dumb. I have no idea which is actually true

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

I mean, even if you look at third party polling in the 2016 primaries, you get largely the same results. The DNC was unfair to Bernie - but at the same time, it is the primary voters who failed him.

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