DNC Screwing Bernie Sanders

But, of course, Bernie knows that. Every political candidate in both parties knows it's a rigged game, and not a democratic election. With the exception maybe of Ben Carson.

Though Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide over Hillary Clinton, he will likely receive fewer [state] delegates than she will.

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New Hampshire has 24 “pledged” delegates, which are allotted based on the popular vote. Sanders has 13, and Clinton has 9, with 2 currently allotted to neither. But under Democratic National Committee rules, New Hampshire also has 8 “superdelegates” [6 of which are committed to Hillary Clinton], party officials who are free to commit to whomever they like, regardless of how their state votes.

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In the overall delegate count, Clinton holds a commanding lead after a razor-thin victory in Iowa and a shellacking in New Hampshire. Clinton has 394 delegates, both super and electorally assigned, to only 42 for Sanders.

  Daily Caller

Sanders leads in pledged delegates; he has 36 while Clinton has 32, according to ABC News estimates. But Clinton has a huge lead in superdelegates, with 362 to Sanders’ 8. (There are a total of 712 superdelegates).

  MyCentralOregon

Superdelegates account for about 15 percent of the total delegates to the Democratic nominating convention.

The DNC is going to eventually split the Democratic party.  The younger generations don't like to be played.

If you really want to elect Bernie, you can only hope he'll change his mind about supporting Hillary "if" she's the party's nominee, which is all but guaranteed under these machinations, and run as an independent. It will be a terrible betrayal of the people supporting him if he doesn't.

There have been speculations (eg. from Chris Hedges and - at least at one point - Cornell West) that Bernie is only running to force Hillary to move left and to drag more Democrats out to the polls.  (Voter turnout is essential to defeating Republicans.) If true, that's both disgraceful and dishonest on his part.  And it wouldn't make any sense, because once Hillary gets into office, nothing she says or does in the campaign matters.  She reverts to who she really is: a warhawk and a corporatist.

Pro-Sanders threads on Reddit have been burning up with calls for action, with some supporters even reaching out to superdelegates (who are typically Democratic governors, members of Congress, and top state and national party leaders) to lobby them on the Vermont senator’s behalf. Progressive groups are also taking a stand: There are currently two petition campaigns designed to urge superdelegates to reflect the popular vote, rather than the sentiment of party elites.

  Politico

That will only succeed if they include a threat to abandon the Democratic party.

When asked Friday on CNN what she tells voters who view the delegate process as ‘rigged’ on Clinton’s behalf, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave a roundabout answer.

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"The only thing available on the ballot in a primary and a caucus is the pledged delegates, those that are tied to the candidate that they are pledged to support. And they receive a proportional number of delegates going into the — going into our convention.

"Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grass-roots activists."

Rigged, you think?  Do you think Bernie doesn't know this?

The Sanders campaign is banking on a similar scenario to 2008, when Clinton also built up an early lead among superdelegates. But as Obama won more caucuses and primaries, previously uncommitted superdelegates came into his camp, and he even earned some defections from Clinton.

And I'm sure the Hillary campaign has been on top of that this time around.

The voting system in this country is broken.  No, make that rigged.  It's smoke and mirrors.  Considering superPACs and "superdelegates", voting machine "glitches", and everything else you know, including the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United and its snatch of the Bush-Gore election, if you still think your vote counts, you are deluded.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.