Remember how in 2000 all the Democrats were whining about how the electoral college wasn't fair because their guy won more popular votes and still lost? If you think the electoral college is a bit off, then you'll marvel at the Democratic party's system for allocating delegates for the presidential nomination. For a group that loudly promotes itself as fair and looking out for the little guy, it has the most nonproportional system.

For example, John Kerry won the North Dakota primary with 5,316 votes for 10 delegates while Al Sharpton came in third in South Carolina with 27,640 votes for zero delegates and Howard Dean came in third in Missouri with 36,305 votes for, again, zero delegates. In other words, every 531 North Dakotans are worth a delegate but the people of SC and MO are worth a warm bucket of spit. I could go into how superdelegates take the nomination away from the voters and give it to special interests but I think I'll save that discussion for the convention.

Fair? Proportional? If they say so, but in my humble opinion, they're hypocritical to criticize the electoral college and remain silent on their own nominating process.