Paul Ryan attacked Bernie Sanders. It backfired spectacularly.

We know that at least hundreds of thousands of people were denied their right to vote in the primaries.

Who knows how they might have voted?

We know there were many inconsistencies in the counting of ballots in the primaries, with many unlikely events taking place -- states where boxes of mail-in ballots, for instance, showed up with statistically impossible numbers for Hillary Clinton. Exit poll deviations so outside the norm, the democratic primary results would not have been certified by the U.N. if we were a third world country having a monitored election.

And, as you know, repeatedly using the "popular vote" to try to create the impression a mandate for your favored candidate, is complete nonsense when a significant number of states vote by caucus.

I'm not saying Bernie definitely would have won a fairly-rain primary. Maybe he still would have lost.

We'll never know, unfortunately, because we didn't have a fairly-rain primary. There's really no denying that.

And you might be cool with it, I don't know. But I think it's a real problem, one we must urgently address going forward.

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