To Sanders supporters FROM a Sanders supporter: please stop saying Bernie should've got the nom.

[StevieM]

17. That never happened. She wasn't even answering a question about whether she could still win.

She was answering a question about whether it was damaging to the party for the race to still be going on in June. She gave a list of years in which the race wasn't over by June. She mentioned the 1968 election, and referenced the assassination happening in June. She accented the word "June."

Also, the notion that winning the PD count made you the rightful nominee wasn't firmly established until the Clinton/Obama race. The last election where the winner hadn't won a majority of delegates to the convention during the voting season was 1984 with Gary Hart vs. Walter Mondale vs. Jesse Jackson. That race went all the way to the convention, and Mondale was not seen as entitled to the nomination.

Clinton's position in 2008 was that winning the PD category did not make you the nominee. She talked about other categories, like the popular vote and the electoral college map that would decide the race in the GE. So she had no reason to make the insinuation that people attributed to her--that would have only contradicted the argument she had been making for months, which was that the race was still up for grabs.

Ultimately, a precedent was set in 2008. And in the very next election the same people who vilified HRC for not accepting it in 2008, and acted like it went without saying, were already prepared to throw the precedent out in order to deny HRC the nomination in 2016.