So the party has struck again, to piss the people off. They are NOT helping their cause one bit by underhanding against Sanders and they've been doing that all along. I don't blame his supporters for fighting back. And this is just within the Democratic Party itself, just imagine how ugly isn't going to get when it gets down to Hillary vs Trump. I'm telling ya, I keep praying for a miracle.......or we could be facing some serious issues of a nation imploding on itself. The people are fed up on both sides of the aisle
what were the sander supporters upset with? what rule or rules upset them enough to get violent? Didn't Hillary win Nevada? Or did Bernie win it?
Here, this is why they were so angry.......
Clinton edges Sanders in chaotic Nevada convention - CNNPolitics.com
.......From there, the state chairwoman Roberta Lange accepted a motion to adopt the delegate slates submitted by the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns, the state party said.
Sanders' supporters had hoped that winning county conventions would give them more delegates than Clinton -- and therefore would help the Vermont senator secure an advantage in Nevada, even though Clinton had won the state's Democratic caucuses in February.
But the state party's count gave Clinton a 33-delegate advantage out of the 3,400 who attended Saturday.
The results of the convention mean Nevada will send 20 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for Clinton, plus 15 for Sanders. Another eight, many of whom have committed to backing Clinton, will go as superdelegates.
Sanders' supporters booed and protested the count, according to local media reports. They'd also produced a "minority report" of 64 Sanders supporters who they said were wrongly denied delegate status -- which the state party explained by saying those individuals' records couldn't be located or they weren't registered as Democrats by the May 1 deadline.
I don't truly know how it all works, but why would Bernie supporters believe they should get MORE delegates than Clinton if they LOST the primary?
Is this normal? The candidate that lost the primary getting more pledged delegates than the person that won the primary? I am clueless on this....?? Are pledged delegates allotted by county and not by overall votes?
The entire process is a rig up. The delegates can give their votes to whoever they want to.
Yes and no
Asclepias as an active Democrat who has been to precinct, senate district, and state conventions, during election season when the higher ups decide either Kerry or whoever is the only electable candidate with the ability to win, they will RESTRICT the convention to just THOSE delegates.
You HAVE to pledge "Kerry" and you HAVE to agree to vote that way to even get into the convention.
So the process works democratically up to around the senate district level.
And the people handling the resolutions being submitted up to that point are responsive to all members.
But after that level it is sold out to higher politics.
You can't get anything done during an election year as all they will focus on is getting the top candidate elected.
Given that last time Clinton had to take a backseat to Obama, it's pretty much assumed this is her turn to get the nomination since she conceded last time. If Sanders runs again or seeks a different position to organize support for his economic reforms, the sympathy and support will go there.
I think a factor in nominating candidates is whether they CAN work with the equivalent leaders of the other parties. So we only elect people who CAN represent the entire nation, and not just their one party interests.
That's like Hindus and Muslims running against each other to make policy that all temples and mosques have to be under. Or Protestants and Catholics campaigning to see who gets to be Pope and issue decrees that all members of all denominations are bound by. Good luck with that.
There are reasons we have separate religions for people to organize under their own principles, beliefs and ways of expressing them.
Also we have distinct states with respective sovereignty, all under one Constitution.
So why can't we have separate representation by party and recognize distinct jurisdiction of
those elected leaders over their OWN members and programs.
States don't agree to have other States impose their agenda across state lines onto their citizens who didn't vote on something. Why this business of abusing federal govt to do that? Makes no sense.
If we wouldn't allow religious creeds to be pushed through govt by one group onto the entire public,
why are we allowing political agenda and beliefs to be mandated for the public this way?
Big fat duh!