There’s rigging going in both parties going on like I told my wife, a Democrat for Bernie, last night at the dinner table.
The Republicans have their split the delegate rules for the many of the conservative southern states and Texas, then the winner take all formats in more liberal states.
They only ‘bind’ delegates to candidates on the first ballot, but the delegates themselves are picked at a party meeting and are mostly Republican Establishment loyalists.
In Illinois were there actual candidates Republicans voted for as delegates with their Presidential candidate listed next to them.
The Democrats unelected “Superdelegates” force Bernie to win big or lose. Sanders has to get at least 55 percent of the popular vote in each state to break even with Hillary in delegates in most states under the strict proportional rules of the Democrat Party.
Maybe not. According to the Dem Primary wiki page According to Democratic Party rules super delegates do not vote on the first ballot, they are only asked to vote in the event a deadlocked convention. They have only been used once in the history of the Democratic party, in 1984
In terms of regular delegates, Hillary is only ahead 1266 to 1038.