Clinton won 3 million more because people saw how superdelegates were backing her. Their existence influenced people into voting for her. Simple.

Uhhh, how about CBP does the job they’ve been doing for over a century?

Border/Customs security is called U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). ICE is not at all CBP; ICE exists to terrorize people who are not committing criminal offenses, and because of their actions ICE should be eliminated.

So, the FBI’s job?

Yep definitely missed you. Sorry about that!

Yeah not at all surprised she’s turning into a run-of-the-mill Democrat, though like you said: disappointing.

Any serious defender of undocumented people in this country would look at ICE and know that it is a cancer that needs to be excised from the U.S.

Drew,

He can’t be sure which one will be the good guy with a gun.

What if, and maybe this is a stretch for you, but what if the process actually became democratic?!

So wait, your complaint isn’t that the DNC was putting their thumb on the scale, but that they were pissed at the media for letting them do it so easily? Seems like the media was reporting things just fine: what mattered in the primary was total delegate count and what the media was reporting was the total delegate…

Without superdelegates, Clinton wouldn’t be declared the candidate for 2016 in 2008 (although I’m unwilling to say it went back this far; even Clinton would have wanted to leave the 2012 table open, just in case) because there wouldn’t be a strong enough deterrent to keep other Democrats out of it, since winning the…

I don’t think an algorithm is all that scary, since we already use them to decide our current elections (yes, a majority-wins system is technically algorithmic).

Bernie wouldn’t have been a top contender in a no-superdelegates open primary and may not have even run, because he’s said his reason for running was that it was a travesty the Democratic Party was going to hold their primary without any serious challengers to Her Highness.

Superdelegates don’t follow the will of the people. They weigh the scale before the people have even had their voice(s) heard.

Why are private parties picking the candidates for president?

I can agree with this.

Let’s do cross-party runoff primaries, where the top two from the primary face off in the general.

Bernie would have won, and that isn’t even the point. Without superdelegates, Clinton wouldn’t have kept other Democrats from running.

Superdelegates are anti-democratic and any party that uses them is ultimately anti-democratic as a result.