Letters to the Editor
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The Relevance of Experience
The run for the office is a polite war under a known set of civil rules. Change the rules and people play different strategies. To say that Hillary would be ahead if there were a different set of rules is to say the rules don't affect the play. One just can't know.
That's the whole point about seating the Florida and Michigan delegates. Had those states planned to vote, the candidates would have approached those states differently. To seat them now, changing the rules after the fact, does not allow a fair fight.
And here is where experience comes in. Of all people, Hillary says her major strength is experience. She knew the system and how it works, and could have advocated change before-the-fact. So if it's not working for her now, after-the-fact, and she didn't anticipate that it would matter, that's not to her credit on what she claims is her strong suit: experience.