2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: No, I don't think Hillary and the dem establishment can put the party back together again [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)There was blatant rule-changing at the Nevada convention, for starters, and it wasn't in Bernie's favor.
Then there was the debate schedule-- there were 26 debates in 2008, but only 6 were scheduled for the 2015-16 primaries, and none of them were held before the deadline for changing party affiliation in New York had passed. And most of those debates were scheduled during major national or local sporting events.
Then there were the discrepancies between official tallies and exit polling, which were almost always several points in Hillary's favor.
And DWS preventing Bernie from accessing his own data for a couple of days, but backed down after Bernie had threatened legal action.
And the Iowa caucuses which were so loaded in Hillary's favor (the results were even being tallied by a Hillary supporter with an HRC 2016 vanity license plate) that even the Des Moines Register, which had endorsed Hillary, conceded that something was rotten with the process.
Then there was "Bullhorn Bill" Clinton and his entourage in Massachusetts blocking voters from reaching the polls in New Bedford and elsewhere.
And of course, all of the bullshit accusations that the Clinton team has leveled against Bernie and his supporters, the most recent of which was out-and-out lies about Bernie supporters becoming "violent" at the Nevada convention.