2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"It’s preposterous — these 473 people basically have the same power as 2,926,000 actual voters."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-superdelegates-corrupt-tool-party-establishments-article-1.2555210
<snip>
If 473 people in a developing country were somehow responsible for 2.9 million votes in an election, wed call that fraud. Our government would refuse to recognize such a leader particularly if those 473 people didnt represent anything remotely similar to the actual will of the people. Wed call the election a sham and demand they do it over in a free and fair manner.
This system we have right now is anything but fair.
If 7 million people have voted and Sanders has won 42% of the states, its borderline criminal that he has only received 4.7% of these superdelegates.
If were not going to have a one person-one vote system, delegates have to be fully representative of the true will of the people.
Otherwise, our democracy isn't as true as we make it out to be.
(Thread was locked and GD and requested to be moved to GDP)
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Hillary does have 4.2million votes though.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Faux pas
(14,672 posts)anyone is free to set up their own party with their own rules
Coincidence
(98 posts)The two parties have teamed up in a rare bipartisan effort to set the deck, guaranteeing only R's & D's are allowed to participate in American Style Democracy.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)anyone on any part of the Democratic Party, Liberal or Progressive spectrum would vote to do away with if given the opportunity. The problem is that it would fail as a constitutional amendment in the small states who get representation from it beyond their fair share.
If no one gets one more than half of the electoral college votes, the House of Representatives picks the President. So if we had more than two viable parties getting electoral college votes, the House would pick the President on a semi regular basis.
Coincidence
(98 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)And only one...
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)all the money, and the government? That seems to be the way our entire society is set up.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Hillary is winning the pledged delegates by a wide margin and judging from the polls its going to stay that way.
The Superdelegates wont be deciding the nomination.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)And at this point most of them are backing the pledged delegate leader, so it's not like they are usurping the will of the votes.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)a very messy, ugly and contentious brokered convention. The GOP has its own method of trying to prevent this from happening, the winner take all states, but I think that will fail to prevent it this time.