There was almost half a point about double stabndards.

Regarding that half a point, it's not contradictory to complain about the superdelegate process early on, and also try to use that process if necessary.

If one think its wrong because it give a candidate an advantage, it is still not contradictory to at least convince some of those superdelagates to change their minds if the otehr factors change.

right under our noses. And it's constantly there, a low hum that keeps our patriarchal system alive.

And yes, it is completely hypocritical to scream about the unfairness of SD's and then sit quietly without a peep when it's YOUR candidate doing it.

It's no different from those people who believe that there's no real racism in the world anymore, because, ya know, civil rights and all!!!!!!!

Women, like other "minorities" (even though they are the majority in terms of numbers, they are the minority in terms of power distribution) have to work TWICE as hard to get HALF the credit.

If women ever come to understand their full power, there are going to be a few people (the "privileged few" quite bluntly) who are going to get a serious wake up call. Paradigms will fall.

It's past time.

Good job! +1

However there is definitely a bit of hypocrisy coming from the Sanders campaign now that they are significantly behind with the talks of trying to switch pledged delegates and appealing to the Super Delegates.

Michigan hadn't had a primary that was competitive since 1992 so every pollster didn't have a reliable model built to project who would turnout. The press had used this bad polling and had egg on their face so they played it off as some kind of come behind miracle when in reality they didn't poll the state properly to begin with. I don't view the Michigan coverage as sexism as much as I view it as the press covering their collected asses for relying on bad polls.

Or any other isms

to determine what is sexism or not.

I pretend that too when it's inconvenient to my biases.

Hillary isn't carping and whining and claiming she's being treated differently. Thank heavens for that. If a person is going to run for POTUS they have to be strong and ignore things that don't matter. I think she is strong. Stronger than most men who might run for the office. Sadly, many of her supporters are trying to diminish her, making her out to be "the poor, victimized woman." It's embarrassing. If the media, for example, doesn't treat her with great gusto, it's because it's been assumed she would be the Democratic nominee since 2008. If she wins a race, it was expected. If Bernie wins, it wasn't and that generates more excitement.

We understand your problem.

You insist on seeing Hillary as a poor, victimized woman when she is exactly the opposite. Any woman running for this office cannot be associated with the "tender flower" mindset you exhibit.

Sanders' isn't. It's therefore been uphill all the way.

The double standard in the primary isn't the one you're looking for.

Sanders' agenda is a Democratic agenda.

I think both candidates come to us via side streets, Sanders as a semi-outsider/socialist and Clinton as an insider side-stepping cultural bias agains women.

It's been a pattern with some of his supporters. It's now from the top guy himself. All is fair in politics.

People were complaining when her super delegates were even added to her totals. They didn't want them to exist at all! Now they want to take them?

'sexism'

Allow me to refresh your memory

How the DNC Helps Clinton Buy Off Superdelegates
As floodgates open to donations from special interests, the future of the party is auctioned to the highest bidder
http://observer.com/2016/02/how-the-dnc-helps-clinton-buy-off-superdelegates/


If you think anyone is going to mind Bernie pleading with superdelegates to help prevent the Clinton cash machine from further aiding the RW drift of the entire party you are dead wrong.

The winning candidate needs super delegate support on the Democratic side. Every path to victory assumes super delegates supporting the winner of the won delegates. This has to happen at some point. Bernie is just saying if it starts happening earlier, that's fine with him.

The objection that Sanders supporters have to counting the super delegates now is acting like they are cast in stone, when in fact they haven't voted yet and will vote last. There is no double standard.

Every four years a bunch of newly politically active individuals discovers, often to their horror, something called "superdelegates." It has nothing to do with the gender of the candidates.