Arianrhod
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Even though the DNC is suppose to be neutral, we learned in 2008, when they worked back handed and back room deals to make Obama the nominee over Clinton even though they were virtually tied, that they were NOT neutral.... I dropped my registered Democratic Party membership and became registered Independent after that fiasco of the DNC...
In 1968, Eugene McCarthy won six primaries (there weren't as many in those days as there are now) and Hubert Humphrey won zero. McCarthy had the majority of the popular vote; with Lyndon Johnson second and Humphrey third. Johnson dropped out, and the back-room deals at that convention gave the nomination to Humphrey. A lot of McCarthy supporters stayed home.
The result was Nixon and the covert expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia.