Thanks, that was worth the read.

Do you have any concerns about that process being seen as undemocratic by voters?

Absolutely not. Some of these delegates were actually elected on the same ballot that the presidential candidates ran on. Some states actually placed the names of delegates on the ballot. In the states that don’t do that, delegates were elected in open, well-publicized meetings after the primary. In other words, anybody who’s a bona fide Democrat can sign up and register to run for delegate. And then you go to a congressional district caucus or a state convention or some gathering, and you bring with you as many friends as you possibly can. That’s why these delegates tend to be local leaders of some sort or another.

Yeah, except that’s exactly how the GOP is going to spin it. You cannot say “absolutely not” when that’s going to be the tagline for every attack ad. “The candidate nobody wanted.”

Experts tend to overestimate the knowledge level of the general public. Most primary voters have no idea how delegates are selected, or how the process works. And for every book written by an expert, there will be ten morons with podcasts calling it a coronation.