This nation is and always has been a Jebocracy ! <| sep |> Especially post Rom 40 insight . <| sep |> So your argument string from . momentum and what coulda been . I ' d argue that Bernie had plenty of momentum and enough publicity where he could have overcome that lead if he had had enough supporyers not a disproportional percentage . after all , they ' re only primary elections , people who don ' t care that much usually just stay home , especially if they believed Hillary had it in the bag and it was a sure thing . She was still able to draw supporters to the polls to cast ballots for her . Regarding independents , it ' s a party primary , the process by which a party nominates it ' s candidates . They should be able to restrict voting to only registered Democrats , the people that generally want the party to succeed . Finally , the Debbie situation happened in the middle of a presidential campaign . You don ' t have the time to go through an entire nomination process and changing your strategy . You have to get someone in there who can keep the ship afloat . This often means getting someone within that same circle for the time being . After the elections , it ' s clear that democrats want a new direction with party leadership .