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Until a few days ago, the Wikipedia page, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008 listedBarack Obamaas the winner ofthe popular vote in the 2008 Democratic primary. However, Obama lost the popular vote in the primary, but won the nomination by garnering moredelegates. Images below show snapshots from the Internet Archive, theWayback Machine.

In the world of fake news, why would one of our go-to fact checking resources be intentionally manipulated in such an innocuous way?

In 2016,Hillary Clinton won both the Democratic primarys popular and delegatevote counts. Whether or not you are of the opinion that the party colluded against Bernie Sanders, the delegate and popular vote counts supported her legitimacy as the nominee.

More importantly, skip forward to 2017 and both Sandersand Clinton are targeting the unfairness of the Electoral College as the reason Donald Trump got elected whereHillary Clinton received 3 million more votes nationwide.

The problem presented inthis narrative is that Democrats are almost universally in agreement that they like Barack Obama who received LESS votes than Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Primary.

So how did he win? Simple. He won the Democratic Partys version of the Electoral College the delegate count!

Hard to peddle a narrative thatwe need to embrace the popular vote when your private political party has chosen not to follow the popular vote, right?

So, for a period of three weeks, someone tried to cover this narrative by creating alternative facts on Wikipedia. Fortunately, realitys watchdog has since reverted the information back to correct the record.

Regardless, next time a member of the Democratic Party says to get rid of the Electoral College ask them when the Democratic Party is getting rid of their delegate process.

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