Sunday, April 10, 2016

American Politics has been Crooked for a long time, but never THIS Obvious.



For decades, both major parties have used a somewhat convoluted process for picking their nominees, one that involves ordinary voters in only an indirect way.  
As Americans flock this year to outsider candidates, the kind most hindered by these rules, they are suddenly waking up to this reality.  And their confusion and anger are adding another volatile element to an election being waged over questions of fairness and equality.

In Nashville a week ago, supporters of Donald J. Trump accused Republican leaders of trying to stack the state’s delegate slate with people who were anti-Trump. The Trump campaign posted the cellphone number of the state party chairman on Twitter, leading him to be inundated with calls. Several dozen people showed up at the meeting at which delegates were being named, banged on the windows and demanded to be let in.

Backers of Senator Bernie Sanders, bewildered at why he keeps winning states but cannot seem to cut into Hillary Clinton’s delegate count because of her overwhelming lead with “superdelegates,” have used Reddit and Twitter to start an aggressive pressure campaign to flip votes.




To win the nomination, Trump would have to go on a month-long winning  streak, starting in New York on April 19, that would deliver a sizable haul of delegates — including increased commitments from those who are unbound.
  

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