2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)that you have to be a registered Democrat to continue participating.
The Bernie delegates that participated today in NV have done the following: They caucuses for Bernie in NV and signed up to be a delegate. They participated in the first convention as a delegate. And they showed up today, continuing to be a delegate for Bernie Sanders.
These are very involved people. There are meetings, emails sent out and lots of information about the rules of participating.
I just finished being a delegate in the third round--same stage of the process as those in NV today. I really have a hard time believing that a large number of them switched back to Independent while they are still participating in the delegate process. That does not make sense that 64 did this en masse--and that this was close to the number that was needed to secure a healthy delegate win for Clinton in NV.
I want to hear from these people. I'd like to hear why these 64 had their credentials stripped and what they have to say about it.
I bet we hear plenty of stories like mine.