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Old 02-20-2016, 03:13 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
@paul: search 'super delegates'

super delegates - Google Search

The USA is not a parliamentary system so there is no head of the party's ticket who becomes PM that is selected by the party.

The primaries are not a ''real'' election. They are a party nominating ''selection''. The parties can make their own rules more or less.

Superdelegate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia => more detail

Our primaries in the USA are popularity contests designed to give the party supporters some voice in the selection process and not a real binding election.
So the UK has a "House of Lords" which is mostly people selected by Governments to double check laws. You have similar to make sure the country gets the President they want.

And they call that democracy? And Trump is fucked whatever the people want, probably Sanders as well.
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