re: #3 worldknot

Pet peeve: I wish people would stop saying Clinton is ahead by 2.4 or however many million votes. The “popular vote” is not a real thing when you have a mix of primaries and caucuses, some open and some closed, and some of which don’t report raw votes at all. The closest thing we have to a fair measure of popular support is pledged delegates. That’s how we know Clinton is ahead and Sanders is behind.

I tend to agree but the thing is popular vote determines the sense of mandate in the general election so I can see why it matters to a degree in the primaries too. My opinion is that State parties that run caucuses instead of primaries are disenfranchising their own members / citizens in order to play games during the convention, and if they want to compete nationally on an equal footing the power is in their hands to do so. Dismissing the popular vote only encourages this antiquated and inherently undemocratic practice.