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[–] MaunaLoona 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Bernie supporters who think he has a chance over Clinton in the Democratic part are delusional. He has as much chance as Ron Paul did with the Republicans: None.

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[–] epsilona01 ago 

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[–] TFP191 ago 

BYAAAA

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[–] TFP191 ago 

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[–] Somali 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Why are people losing their shit? He's stating the obvious. The fact that superdelegates are private citizens who can vote for whoever they want hasn't exactly been a secret.

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[–] nomenimion 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Bernie: run as an independent.

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[–] Pylote 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

As vp for trump

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[–] RedditIsPropaganda23 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

Taxation without representation.

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[–] MaunaLoona 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago  (edited ago)

What you said makes no sense at all in this context. Do you even know what a superdelegate is?

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[–] RedditIsPropaganda23 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

a person whose vote counts 8000x as much as mine.

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[–] jeffwingersballs 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I used to feel bad for him the way the media fucked him over back in 2004, but now that he's decided to be a cog in the machine he should be reviled.

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[–] Men13 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Just one more of the "The DNC is telling it how it is. Not even trying to sugar coat it. You've got to give them that." quote.

I mean, you can't say they're lying or even misleading anyone. First the "The whole point of superdelegates is to protect the candidate we want to win from the vote of the people" (paraphrasing slightly), and here's just more of the same.

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[–] McBitches ago 

I don't get how that just happens. What the fuck is the point then?

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[–] Men13 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

The DNC is a private organization. They can do whatever the fuck they want - if you don't like it just vote for some other party. I mean, legally you can have a political party that just tells you "this is who we're running for president. If you don't like it - vote for someone else".

That's more or less what the DNC does. The problem is - the two party system (or "first past the pole") guarantees you don't have a third option. What we need is something like proportional representation - where you don't vote for individuals (congressmen / president) but rather for parties, and the parties "fill the seats" with an amount of people proportional to the number of votes they got.

That way if, say, 5% of people vote for a small, little known, party for a single little cared about issue - that party will still get ~5 congressmen which is nothing to sneeze at. Right now, if 5% of the population thinks an issue is important - no one cares at all.

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