Reply #43: I agree, the rules we have now are the rules we have. [View All]

[phrigndumass]

According to the DNC Rulebook, each state can decide to use either a primary or a caucus/convention to select their delegates. About a third of the states chose to use a caucus/convention to select their delegates. The party rules contend that both methods are democratic in nature. Until those rules are changed, delegates chosen in those states will count toward our party's nomination process. And the purpose of votes in a primary or caucus is to select delegates.

We nominate someone who got fewer delegates at our own peril.

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