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You need to google something like "Democratic Primary Superdelegates." These are delegates who are party officials, not elected by popular vote in the primary.

For example, check this link: Some info on superdelegates

Counting pledged superdelegates and popular delegates, Hillary has a current lead over Bernie of 394 to 44, believe it or not.

About 1/4 of the Democratic Party delegates are unelected superdelegates. The GOP has fewer (3 in each state, per Wikipedia, and they are supposed to follow the state vote), so what happens in the primary voting is more relevant.

I'm not a major political junkie, and I'm finding this eye-opening. The Dem Party selection process has a lot in common with that of the Politburo and the Chinese Communist Party.

that’s, that’s really scary the way they pick their man/woman/thing.

i hope our 3 per do the right thing.

i have much reading to do but thanks for the head start.

No, because she wound up with more delegates

You are entirely correct, and so is the author. Hillary took a 20+ point drubbing in the popular vote and came out with 15 delegates to Bernie the Bolshevik's 13. That's how heavily the deck is stacked. She got clobbered in the popular vote and it didn't matter.