2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]Gothmog
(154,590 posts)I was there. I was in the delegation where 20+ of the younger sander delegates came to the delegation breakfast marching with locked arms to demand that the Clinton delegates change their votes to sanders and agree to condemn Hillary Clinton. These idiots were told that if they yelled loud enough, they could win. The Sanders young delegates were listening to the Sanders campaign up until the week before the convention.
The Sanders campaign did not vet their delegates and these delegates were poorly informed as to the process. In addition, according to the Clinton whipping infrastructure, Sanders refused to condemn these efforts and all he would do is send a text to his delegates. That worked very well. Sanders delegates bought his lies about the process being fixed and there were a number of attempts to ruin the convention that were mainly stopped because the Sanders people plotted there demonstrations on an unsecured web list. According to the Clinton whips, Sanders did not want to be too hard on his delegates because he wanted their support later. The Clinton whips let us know about each Sanders attempted disruption ten or so minutes before they occurred.
Your facts are again wrong. Facts are good things and you may want to use actual facts in your posts. I was actually at the convention and to deal with these Sanders delegates.