The Clinton machine is 1,000 times bigger than the Sanders machine. Bernie has better people campaigning for him but when it comes down to the wire, it is the machine in back that determines who gets nominated.
From Sean Illing writing at Salon (who is acting like this is the first time anything like this ever happened):
What the hell just happened in Nevada? Sanders supporters are fed up — and rightfully so
Chaos erupted at the Nevada Democratic convention on Saturday as supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over the awarding of the state’s 35 pledged delegates. Clinton edged Sanders in the Nevada caucus on Feb. 20th (52.6 percent to 47.3 percent). On April 2, however, the state party held its Clark County convention and Sanders mobilized more delegates than the Clinton campaign (1,613 to 1,298), which swung the delegate count in his favor.
At the state convention this weekend, the final step in the process, Sanders supporters hoped to secure the lion’s share of the remaining 12 delegates. Instead, the delegate allocation rules were abruptly changed and Clinton was awarded 7 of the 12 delegates. State party chair, Roberta Lange, told caucus-goers that the “ruling by the Chair is not debatable; we cannot be challenged and I move that…and I announce that the rules have been passed by the body.” Predictably, a chorus of boos followed and the convention was forced to end on a frenzied note.
What happened in Nevada is likely to happen elsewhere. The perception that the DNC has thrown its institutional support behind Clinton has only deepened the internal divide within the party. The Sanders wing is pissed off, and rightfully so.
A word of caution - do you want someone with this much political power in the White House? Consider voting for Trump instead. If Hillary gets elected, she will only grow the corruption and centralised power and this will make it even harder for someone like Bernie to get close to running.
The system is rotten on both sides of the fence and you are only perpetuating this if you vote for Hillary or do not vote at all as some kind of protest. Face it - they will not allow Sanders and they are trying like hell to knock Trump out of the ring. Trump is the only one of the two with the resources to stay in the fight. Get him in for a couple years and let him clean house. We will all be much better off for it.
These are the 1% - this is the naked face of the 1%'s operatives in Washington. They need to be brought down so that good honest people can be elected again.
It used to be about We The People - make it so again. We have that within our reach.
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