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Hillary Clinton

jmowreader

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12. There are only nine left

Reply to Koinos (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 12:04 PM

Jun 2016

Earlier this week Tulsi Gabbard was talking about unelected party apparatchiks deciding our candidate...I went through the Wikipedia page on Democratic supers, and it looks like unelected party apparatchiks (not the term she used) are the majority of Bernie's superdelegates.

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