This insistence that people who don't belong to a party should be permitted to choose its candidates is odd.

If you want to select a party's candidates, then the answer is simple: Join that party.

Incidentally, I'm an independent, so I don't participate in the Democratic primary, either.

I don't "insist", but given that the Californian Democratic Party gives me that option as an independent, I do participate in their primary.

STOP IT!
You consistently misconstrue my posts and then construct an argument against a point I've never made - either explicitly or by inference.

Enough

Perhaps you should stop insisting that Sanders is the rightful nominee, when the guy is well behind the front runner.

There you go again

Sadly you are wasting your time.

What the heck? Did you read my post that you replied too, or the post from MMcD which was part of the discussion? Who is insisting what? Do you have NO concept of a civil discussion about an interesting topic??

Bernie Sanders is in second place, and the comments made about Clinton here have been intended to attack her legitimacy. Let's not pretend that this agenda has been absent from the remarks about the New York primary (in which the polls favor Clinton by a wide margin) or about the Wyoming caucus.

If you want to prefer Sanders, then that's your right. But it's tedious to see all of this revisionism re: his alleged popularity.

Clearly



Road Warrior's road rage and the road kill it leaves in the wake of his bizarre compulsion to distort the posts to which he's supposedly 'replying' is bizarrre - if not pathological.

Facts can be so inconvenient, not very impressive with the amount of money she has behind her and the support of the Machine.

National polls are kind of moot at this point in the primary game, with so many states already voting. Really, the polls that matter for the Democrats with their proportional delegate distribution are those in the bigger states that still have to vote.

What's tedious is your continued attempts to set the agenda about what should and should not be discussed in a thread about the election.

Hillary Clinton has received 2.4 million more votes than Bernie Sanders.

He's not only in second place, but he's well behind in terms of regular delegates, superdelegates and the popular vote.

And something else to bear in mind is (I think) there are States which carry the booty of a big delegate basket - and therefore really important in securing the nomination - but in the General Election - may be reliably red States - unlikely to matter for the Dems.

Ironic

So what? Doesn't mean there isn't anything to discuss. If it's all too tedious for you, then don't bother commenting.