democrat primary

In the 2016 Republican primary race, there were many influential republicans who did not want Donald Trump to win the primary, but since the Republican primary is set up to allow the voters total control over the selection of a candidate, they were not able to prevent Donald Trump’s victory. The Republican delegates are selected solely based on the popular vote in each state. That is the proper way to select a candidate because the selection was determined strictly by the popular vote in the individual states.

However, the Democrat’s primary race is not set up the same way. The democrat delegates are divided into two groups. One group is selected by the popular vote and the other group is selected by the leaders of the Democratic Party. The setup is intended to provide the leaders of the Democratic Party enough leverage to control who will win the primary in the vast majority of cases. Let me explain how it works.

In the 2016 democratic primary, there were a total of 4763 delegate votes available. The delegate votes were divided as follows: 4051 selected by popular vote, 712 selected by party leaders. The 712 delegates are referred to as super delegates, and their votes are not determined by or affected in any way by the popular votes cast in the state primaries. In order to win the primary, a candidate must garner more than 50% of the total delegate votes, 2382 or more delegates. So if there are two candidates, then one of them is the “party candidate”, and begins the primary process with a lead of 712 to nothing over the other candidate. Let’s see what the other candidate must accomplish to win the primary.

The “other candidate” must win at least 2382 delegates to win the primary. However, 712 delegates are not available to him. So instead of needing to win 2382 delegates out of 4763, he needs to win 2382 out of 4051 (the remaining available after the 712 super delegates are subtracted). Do the simple math, 2382/4051. That calculates out to 58.8% of the popular votes. If you are aware of history, there are very, very few political elections where one candidate garners 58.8% of the vote. Simply stated, the democratic primary is rigged so that the party leaders are able to pick their candidate virtually 100% of the time. One might even be inclined to say that the democratic primary race is a sham.

Now in all fairness, the democrats claim that the super delegates are free to vote for whoever they choose. So in theory, they do not have to vote for the “party’s candidate”. However, you know and I know that to go against the wishes of the party leaders would probably be political suicide. One merely has to ask one simple question. “Why have the democratic leaders set up their primary election in this manner”. The only answer is that they wanted to ensure that they have the power to dictate who will be the winning candidate in any primary.

I have one final question. Why would any democrat (not a powerful leader) be happy with this arrangement? Why should anyone (not just democrats) approve of a political party that sets up a system such as this for the express purpose of thwarting the will of the majority within the party? How can the democrats claim that they are the party of the “common man” when even their election process is corrupted to ensure that the will of the common people is ignored?