I didn't realize this until now: In the 2008 Democrat primaries between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Clinton actually won more of the total popular vote:
Clinton: 17,822,145
Obama: 17,535,458
But near the end, the "Superdelegates" (party regulars) turned on Clinton and gave their votes to Obama, giving him the victory. She, not wanting to appear "racist," caved, despite her greater popular vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2008
In 2016, Clinton made sure the Superdelegates were hers. AND she also won the final popular vote:
Clinton: 16,914,722
Sanders: 13,206,428
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
In 2008, she actually won fair and square in the primaries, yet in the end gave in to her Superdelegate colleagues who crossed over to Obama, deeming him the "Golden Child" that she would just look petty if she opposed.
In 2016, she, ironically, legitimately won the popular vote against Sanders... yet still got crap for somehow being "an insider who STOLE the vote."
In fact, in 2008, Clinton bowed to the leftists in her party and LET her Dem nomination be stolen via Superdelegate lest she be decried as "racist." While in 2016, she legitimately won the nomination but was STILL denigrated by her party's Bernie Bros/Gals.
In the 2016 Presidential election, Clinton also won the popular vote. HOWEVER, the US system has always, since its founding, been based on Electoral College votes, not on popular votes. Trump won legitimately.
Trump: Popular: 62,984,828 Electoral College: 304
Clinton: Popular: 65,853,514 Electoral College: 227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016
I understand that Hillary is disturbed by how things have gone. But what I think she should be most disturbed about is the 2008 Democrat primary contest. In which she won the most votes and initially had the most Superdelegates, yet her party "encouraged" her to hand over Superdelegates to Obama... because it was (ha!) the "right thing to do." THAT is where the screwing occurred.
Hillary's loss in the primary of 2008 reminds me of the one time I have been called to appear on a jury. In San Francisco in '94 or so. A new mailman was bitten by a dog at a home. And he was subsequently suing the people at the home. But, as it turned out, San Fran had a coding system in their headquarters for houses with dogs. A red flag indicated not to go up to the door but just to leave mail outside a gate. On this particular day, headquarters messed up and didn't leave a flag. So the new mailman walked on up to the house... and got bit. Now, I saw this as the post office's fault for failing to flag the address, as they always had, for the new mailman. But what was the guy going to do, sue his employer?
What was Hillary supposed to do in 2008? She'd been screwed but couldn't say anything.
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