A number of people have claimed that the Democratic delegate selection rules are rigged, so Clinton is getting more delegates than Sanders. Actually the rules are rigged this way. The candidate who receives the most votes in primaries is awarded the most pledged delegates. It’s called democracy.
Hillary Clinton has 54% of pledged delegates, which are awarded based on votes cast in primaries and caucuses. In popular vote she actually leads 56% to 42% for Sanders, so if there is unfairness, it is that Sanders is getting more pledged delegates than he would seem to based on popular votes.
For Sanders to win at this point, Clinton would have to get less than 1/3 of the votes in each of the remaining states. That has only happened on one state thus far. That was Vermont.
Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. The only question is, will Bernie Sanders realize the threat to this country and its values posed by Donald Trump. Will his followers realize that while they may not like Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump has the potential to wreck this country. We could have lived with a McCain victory or a Romney victory, but we now have an unqualified Republican candidate running for the most powerful office in the world.
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