Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses but Hillary Clinton was awarded more delegates

  Much like the Republican party is trying to wrestle the potential nomination of Donald Trump from the voters at a brokered convention in an attempt to nominate either Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan as the party’s candidate in the general election the Democratic party, through the use of the superdelegates, is more stealthily trying to control the outcome of its primary season.

  The latest example of this comes from the caucuses which were held in Wyoming yesterday: Bernie Sanders won a fairly decisive 12 point victory in the state. In the post I wrote about this win I stated that because Wyoming awarded its delegates proportionally the outcome was close enough where the victory would not mean much because the Senator from Vermont would only pick up a few delegates in the overall delegate count against the former Secretary of State but I was wrong. And not in a good way for supporters of Bernie Sanders…

  It turns out that because of the superdelegates Hillary Clinton was actually awarded more delegates than Bernie Sanders even though she lost the race, here is more:

Bernie Sanders won again Saturday — and still lost.

The Vermont senator took ­Wyoming by an impressive 12 percentage-point margin in statewide caucuses, beating Clinton 56-44 percent.

But under the Democratic party’s oddball delegate system, Sanders’ winning streak — he has won seven out of the past eight contests — counts for little.

In fact, despite his win, he splits the Wyoming’s 14 pledged delegates 7 to 7 under the caucus calculus.

Clinton, meanwhile, also gets the state’s four superdelegates — who already pledged their allegiance to her in January. So despite “losing,” she triumphs 11-7 in the delegate tally.

  It is clear that both parties are trying to control the outcome of the primary elections but while the media has focused on the shenanigans of the Republican party to do so they are ignoring the Democratic party’s shenanigans. But that is to be expected and in fact the mainstream media is working in concert with the Democratic party to help Hillary Clinton by trying to dissuade Bernie Sanders supporters from heading to the polls by changing the way the superdelegates are reported in order to make it seem as if Hillary Clinton’s nomination is inevitable. And it is, the Democratic party is making sure of it…

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