Originally Posted by
The Batman
On top of this sort of collusion not even happening, assuming you were correct, this sort of thing is hilariously small in its effectiveness. See: The general election.
The pre-primary polling was showing that Bernie was going to lose. The news agencies weren't reporting a Bernie loss early on because the DNC/Clintons told them to, they were reporting it because the numbers for Bernie simply weren't there. Bernie was surprisingly popular as a socialist candidate who had basically come out of nowhere to challenge a political titan, but he was almost always double digits behind in the polls. Again, I'm telling you this as someone who followed and supported the Bernie campaign. We were all hopeful that Bernie would pull a miracle out of his ass, because many of us wanted to see Bernie win. He had a lot of good ideas but he also had a lot of blank space where ideas should have been when it came to things like foreign policy. His campaign lacked energy and drive to get people up and out to vote for him.
It certainly is a good thing that Clinton didn't need them, then.
People kept crying that if people "voted how they wanted" then Bernie would have won. But not only did they poll the super delegates and find out that only a tiny handful even wanted to vote for Bernie, this also held true for the general Democrat caucus. Bernie still would have lost even if people had "voted how they wanted". The polling numbers when people were asked who they "truly" wanted to see win the primary weren't far off from the results of the primary, and certainly wouldn't have bagged Bernie a win.
That major players in the DNC didn't want Bernie to win isn't cheating honey, and unless you're claiming that every single poll about Bernie vs Clinton was made up, including independent online polls, predicting a Bernie loss wasn't any kind of collusion or corruption. It was simple numbers.
So maybe the rabid Bernie Bros can just drop the hysterics about cheating already? Or are you going to carry a grudge with you for the rest of your life over it?