2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Greg Palast: How California is being stolen from Sanders right now [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)So far over 3.7 million MORE citizens have voted for her than Bernie--and unlike Bernie totals there are no spoiler conservatives in that total who actually intend to vote for Trump. They all chose her for president.
Hillary is winning because more people voted for her than Bernie.
FiveThirtyEight says that the table was actually more tilted for Bernie, not her. If all those dreadfully undemocratic caucus states had already changed to far more representative primaries, Sanders would have ended very far behind.
Both Indiana and another state actually held unbinding primaries after their caucuses. Bernie had won the caucuses, but Hillary "won" both primaries by large margins because far more people voted.
That was the Catch 22, but it was working for Bernie and against democracy.
The good news is, democracy won.