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  • Mamertine@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I thought the reason Clinton won the primary was because people wanted adults in charge who knew what they were doing,

    And I think she won because she worked out a deal with the super delegates from 2008 when Obama “stole” the nomination from her.

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      5 months ago

      That is completely ridiculous. The superdelegates have never changed the results of the primary ever, not once. She had no secret arrangement, you can literally see the votes for yourself. She won at the ballot box. We can talk all day about whether or not the party elites put their thumb on the scale financially and messaging-wise (they did), but the superdelegates did not make one lick of difference, nor was there some grand conspiracy.

      Now did you know when it was clear he was going to lose Bernie said he was going to try and win via superdelegates? Curious about your thoughts on that one.

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      5 months ago

      While that might be the case, the line from the Clinton campaign on why they won was because they were the grownups who could actually beat Trump, not a bunch of petulant Bernie Bros.