I hope they get very uncomfortable with their capitulation to DNC coercion. Seems the plan to short circuit the people's candidate rather blew up in their faces. It's going to be difficult to walk back their premature pledge, but eventually, they will be forced to represent...or leave office.

when it overpowers the monied interests of our corporate overseers, it is a beautiful thing. Kind of like supply and demand, but with real values and ideas. No threat, just the will of the people. You ride the tide, or are awash in it. Your choice.

Which brings us to Martin Longman's piece at Washington Monthly about the "disconnect between the system as it exists and the people’s expectations for how things ought to be in a sensible and fair world." In "Want a Revolution? Join a Party," he writes:

Longman concludes:

In a general election, the principle of one-person one-vote is vitally important, but that principle doesn’t apply to parties picking their nominees, nor should it. If you want to be an independent, you really shouldn’t complain about what some party you don’t even belong to wants to do. If you want to have a real say, you should do the things that will give you some say, not just sit around bitching that people win nominations in a way that displeases you]....

It’s not corrupt that committed party members tend to be the people who run to be delegates, nor that committed party members have a preference for candidates who support their party, work to make it stronger, and generally share its priorities and goals.

If you want a revolution, you have to do it on the ground within the party system, and you have to know how it works....

Sen. Bernie Sanders is from Vermont which gets one U.S. Senator for every 300,000 people. I live in North Carolina where we get one U.S. Senator for every 5,000,000 people. Is that unfair? Perhaps. Is it corrupt?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/those-corrupt-delegates-by-bloggersrus.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

of more than 2 million votes. That's a lot of people.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html

I don't see totals for Iowa, Alaska or Washington.


on edit: and Maine too.

Or Lobbyists.

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/6/1511462/-CORRUPTION-How-Hundreds-of-Superdelegates-were-Literally-bought-by-the-Clinton-Campaign

And next election cycle, they shouldn't even exist. Not in the so-called "Democratic Party," anyway.

Just look at this OP, all worried about whether or not the courtiers are "amused" by the ruckus outside the palace walls. How eager some are to roll over for a plum spot in the peonage.

The popular votes should directly elect the president. People should have a second and third choice on the ballot to prevent voting anomalies.