How Elections Work: A Few Helpful Hints for Bernie Sanders And His Less Earthbound Enthusiasts
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When you are down by
13 points,
three million votes,
five contests and
about 275 pledged delegates, you can’t really
blame your loss on the superdelegates, who had nothing to do with any of those things.
Nor can you rightly lay blame at the feet of the
DNC chair, even if the mean lady won’t just hand you the nomination and you want it so bad.
Saying that you have actually won more votes, more contests or more pledged delegates will not, in fact, make any of those things true. Even if you say it a lot, or in the form of angry tweets and Internet comments.
When your opponent has
won more open primaries than you, it will strike informed people as rather absurd if you
insist or imply that you would really be winning if there weren’t so many closed ones. Also know that 100% of people are fully aware that if you were over-performing in closed primaries, instead, you would claim without compunction that outsiders in open primaries were hijacking the Democratic Party and ignoring the overwhelming wishes of the liberal base.
Generally speaking, it’s just a good idea to remember that rules written years, sometimes decades before you entered the race, were not drafted just to
screw you.
more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/hints-for-sanders-and-less-earthbound-enthusiasts_b_10057430.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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