When Bernie hit the ground running and won a New Hampshire, Iowa, and Nevada it really didn't come as much of a surprise that the media immediately turned on him and loads of news stories were dedicated to how he was bad for the party and bad for the country. Media allies started giving him the Trump treatment straight away.
I don't know if the media's message had much of an effect on the voters but Joe Biden ended up handily winning South Carolina by more than double the amount of votes that any other candidate received including Bernie Sanders.
Warren and Mayor Pete (I can never spell his last name correctly) did very poorly and I suspect that both of them will be dropping out in precisely 3 days.
So why am I, a conservative Libertarian, writing about this? Because I felt that Joe Biden was the chosen one long before this contest even started and the rest of it was just a show to keep us busy as a population for a while. When Bernie started strong I was thinking to myself that there is no chance the Democrat party is going to allow this, especially when Sanders isn't even a Democrat, he is an Independent who gets on the (D) ticket because he realizes a 3rd party run is a waste of time.
Now I don't want to get into conspiracy theories about the fact that perhaps the votes aren't really even tallied although there are times that I feel that even that might be true. Instead I will just focus on the truth. The establishment candidates always have an advantage and this is especially true with the Democrats because of Superdelegates.
Superdelegates are people considered "important" by the DNC and their vote is not attached to any public vote. They can endorse whoever they want and I think this is a horrible situation. These people are always going to vote for the establishment candidate because they themselves are a big part of the political machine problem.
Now, it is only 15% of the overall voting pool, so to speak, but this is more than enough to give the nomination to a preferred candidate, which is precisely what we saw happen in 2016 when it was Clinton vs. Sanders. Had the superdelegate count been reversed, Sanders would have gotten the nomination. By the way, Republicans have superdelegates as well, but substantially fewer.
I predicted a long time ago that the DNC would not allow Sanders to be the nominee and we can see the wheels moving to prevent him from getting nominated AGAIN. As soon as he does a little bit well, the media moves very quickly to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters. All sorts of stories about how he is "unelectable" and "too extreme" are released complete with polls that show him losing badly to Trump. Why anyone listens to news stations opinions with attached polls is just astounding to me since all the polls showed Trump having "no chance" of defeating Clinton..... and then he did so.
Now, I actually think that Sanders would lose to Trump, perhaps even worse than Clinton did because he is unashamed bout that dirty little word, Socialism. However, when you look at the others, especially boring Biden who makes microphone gaffes left and right and would get eaten alive by Trump in the debates,.... how are they going to fare any better?
I'm not going to vote for any of them nor do I personally know very many people that would ever consider voting Democrat but I do feel as though the primary system is rigged and that Joe Biden is going to eventually get the nomination. I feel this was decided years ago and his win in South Carolina will trigger more wins on Tuesday, and eventually the nomination, and then the loss to Trump in November.
It's going to be exciting to see though, that is for sure.