An Election To Remember
With every national election there are winners and losers. This is a natural process that occurs every four years. However, the election of 2016 was different. Or at least most Americans think it was! So, did America witness a new type of political process, and is this a suggestion that we cannot go back to the way it was? In many ways, I think it is too soon to tell, but in a way, it was the Hollywood story that seems too good to be true. The Democratic Party had all but given its nomination to Hillary Clinton before Bernie Sanders appeared. The DNC did not know how to react to a Sanders campaign, but it had already established a formula to deal with fringe elements to deny them direct access to the nomination. The Super Delegate concept, created after George McGovern’s loss to Richard Nixon, ensured that Ms. Clinton would be the nominee, much to the disappointment of Mr. Sanders’ supporters. And as a concession to Sanders and to ...