The UnDemocratic Democrat Establishment
David Plouffe, who managed the 2008 Barack Obama campaign, wrote this week that, “Hillary Clinton has zero chance of not being the Democratic nominee.”
Secretary Hillary Clinton won’t be the nominee because she’s a good candidate. Unlike others who have sought the presidency multiple times, she has actually gotten worse, not better, on the trail. She recently bragged that she plans to put an entire industry out of business on national television. As the New York Times’ Nick Confessore recently observed, when pressed on uncomfortable or inconvenient topics, Secretary Clinton dodges “with all the elegance of a supertanker.
Secretary Clinton won’t be the nominee because she has racked up an impressive series of recent wins. She was absolutely blown out in the “Western Saturday” contests in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, losing by 46, 63 and 40 percentage points, respectively. That’s an average loss margin of a whopping 50 points, and just as importantly, undercuts a narrative being pushed by the Clinton campaign that Senator Bernie Sanders cannot win in diverse states.
Secretary Clinton won’t be the nominee because she has the support of grassroots activists. A recent Wall Street Journal story noted that Senator Sanders has nearly twice as many donors as Clinton, and the Vermont senator shattered then-Senator Barack Obama’s record of reaching one million donors in the shortest amount of time. Further, the Journal reported that, “82% of her [Clinton’s] funds raised through January were for more than $200, compared to 29% for Mr. Sanders.”
Secretary Clinton won’t be the nominee because she won the debates. In fact, her campaign is under increasing fire for refusing to accept Senator Sanders’ challenge for another debate in New York, one of Clinton’s three “home states.”
Secretary Clinton won’t be the nominee because of the strength of her character. She is a dishonest and unethical politician with a failed record. Over the weekend, The Washington Post published a lengthy and revealing front-page expose on the ongoing investigation into Secretary Clinton’s controversial email server. One of the key takeaways emerging from the deep dive: there are now 147 FBI agents involved in the investigation. In the words of Chris Cillizza AKA The Fix, “W-H-A-T? One hundred and forty seven agents? Doesn’t that seem like a ton for a story that Clinton has always insisted was really, at heart, a right-wing Republican creation? It sure seems that way to me.”
Simply put, Secretary Clinton is still her party’s frontrunner because of the Democrat establishment and the arcane, unfair and undemocratic process known as “superdelegates.”
Consider: among the pledged delegates allocated so far, Senator Sanders trails by approximately 12 percent. But among the superdelegates who have publicly indicated their support, he faces a gap of about 88 percentage points:
As I’ve noted in the past, the superdelegate process is not fair.
If Secretary Clinton becomes her party’s nominee, she will owe it largely to the unfair process of superdelegates. Because if grassroots voters across the country had their way, there’s a good chance the Democratic Party would be feeling the bern at their convention in Philadelphia.
But the Democrat establishment has already picked the winner of their primary: it’s Hillary Clinton.
