That sounds like an interesting possibility of just what might have happened to me, GfS.

The primaries are a dog and pony show. They are intended to flummox the public and keep them hyped up and interested...but...the process can sometimes go a bit awry for the controllers and force them to make a change of plan partway through. I think that's what probably happened for the Democrats this time. I really think they originally had every intention of running Hillary for president, but it didn't work out because Obama turned out to be unusually charismatic...and then there was the problem of the Black voting bloc going almost entirely for Obama, that being a bloc which had always supported the Clintons in the past. The Clintons did not foresee that happening. They had grown to used to a sense of entitlement there, and it hurt them badly.