I have to agree with PJ. And I say that as someone who loves Bernie and would happily support him were he the nominee.
Look, there's no doubt that Hillary is the "establishment" candidate, and as such had and continues to have institutional advantages that Sanders never has, but - let's be honest - that's actually been good for Bernie's message as an insurgent candidate. But I also think it's a bit far fetched to suggest that there's some machiavellian conspiracy that Hillary's surrogates have devised to purposefully defraud and disenfranchise Bernie voters. Hillary wants this nomination, she wants it bad, but I think it's a bit insulting to suggest that her team and her supporters are willing to engage in, endorse or willfully ignore outright voter fraud. Yeah, sometimes things Hillary or her surrogates do or say piss me royally off, but I don't think anything in her legacy suggests she would go so far.
What happened in AZ is an outrage and AZ voters - all of them - have a right to be very angry about it and AZ officials should be held accountable for that appalling mess, but let's not turn on each other. This is as much a case of a lazy and inept bureaucracy being asleep on the job as it is some grand conspiracy to stop Bernie. This should be an opportunity for every state election official across the country to recognize the intense voter interest on both sides of the aisle this year and to ensure that they have built the systems and processes to appropriately accommodate their citizens' right to vote in a timely manner.
Updated On: 3/31/16 at 04:30 PM