Originally Posted By: britneyspearsatemyshorts
ironic that a party named after Democracy, doesn't want to see democracy played out....


The problem for the Democrat party is that an argument can be made that, no matter who gets the nomination, democracy can't get played out since the voters (or even the state delegates) won't decide the race, the super-delegates will.

Personally, I think Obama has a better claim to a legitimate victory at this point since most of Hillary's strategies involve either changing the rules (ex: Michigan and Florida) or getting the superdelegates to vote in a manner inconsistent with the results thus far. Just winning primaries won't be enough for her at this point.

At the same time, if Hillary can convince the superdelegates to vote for her over Obama, that's her legal right. However, this is the same Hillary that was whining about how unfair the electoral college was after 2000, simply because it obeyed the law and voted for Bush over Gore. It's also the same Hillary who has been very involved in setting up these rules, going all the way back to 1972, when she was a DNC lawyer.

In short, you have two candidates whose backers have spent the last eight years whining about stolen elections that weren't and voter fraud that wasn't. They're just so conditioned to cry "fraud" that, no matter who wins, half the party is going complain.