There's a number of things going on here, but the short of it is that to become the democratic nominee you need to convince a whole bunch of people, including some super delegates. Hillary Clinton did a better job of this than Bernie Sanders.

How she did it could probably be the subject of an entire book, but no one has ever come up with any particularly scandalous stories about it so far.

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hungmung 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, and the superdelegates, whose job was to make sure people didn't pick the wrong candidate (how democratic of them), picked probably the least popular politician in America at the time.

Trump likely would have lost against almost any other candidate, but he had help from the Democratic party, who treated Hil's nom as a coronation.

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wredcoll 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is such a silly hill to die on. Hillary clinton won the majority of voters both in the democratic nomination and in the national election.

	▲	hungmung 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah she was so popular they had to rig caucuses in her favor, and superdelegates had to defy their constituents.