Interesting. Thanks for the report. We do this same Delphi process here at work. It is excruciating to set through. Us peons usually don't have the opportunity to sway the decisions, so we have to go along.
That is the entire purpose of this technique, to reach a predetermined conclusion with the appearance of consensus.
Do you recognize it as such when the MSM runs a series of slanted articles for a week or two, then conduct a slanted poll to confirm it, then declare it the consensus of the "American people" for another week or two. As a result, the pols are swayed to support it and it then becomes policy .