"I don’t think superdelegates ought to sway the election.”
I’m still waiting for someone to show when that’s ever been the case.
Yeah they would be swaying the election if the sd flipped to Bernie, since he’s behind in pledged delegates
Right. Bernie peeps, do you hear the message?
She is right, but sonsofares you are too. Until now Superdelegates have had the good sense to fall in line with the pledged delegates. To do otherwise would be a disaster for the party.
Superdelegates are a bad solution to a perceived problem that arose back in the fight between Kennedy and Carter that could be better dealt with in other ways.
Well Elizabeth … Here comes Bernie anyway —
If superdelegates are not intended to sway elections, then why do they exist at all? Of course they are.
Even if you allocate the super delegates in accordance with combined popular vote in all primaries and caucuses, Hillary wins enough overall delegates with California vote. So the kerfuffle over SD’s is Bernie’s much ado about nothing.
No they’re not … They were created to prevent a fiasco… . a person like Truimp from getting nominated —
I have no words…as usual he just saying things but no idea how to do it.
That line reads to me as a direct poke at Sanders, who’s been “courting” superdelegates to overturn the delegate count that is, hugely, against him.
A little late to the revolution don’t ya think Liz?
SD are to make sure people like Sanders don’t steal the nomination. DWS has said as much. They (SD) have no history or purpose as they relate to American politics other than to protect the favorable position of the status quo.
Don’t forget that Hillary spent the better part of 2 years courting them too. The game requires any candidate to court superdelegates. Sanders problems are 1) he got in to the game late and 2) the perception that he is courting the very insiders he seems to oppose.
Don’t forget his biggest problem, he lost the primaries.
And if Edwards had manged to win the pledged delegates in 2008, then before the convention his affair while his wife was dying of cancer came to light and he was rendered unelectable (and yes it was after the last primary and before the convention that actual news broke) we should have been forced to stick with him as our nominee regardless?
And the fact that’s he’s been trashing them doesn’t help his cause either…this is a set up when they don’t flip to him he’s going to run around saying how it’s rigged and that he’s been treated unfairly… Sound familiar
And that is exactly the perception that makes the entire rule suspect. Who would Sanders be stealing the election from? The elected Democrats on the inside who have apparently lost control of their constituencies. In short superdelegates are designed to keep entrenched politicians in power when they haven’t done a good job.
Sanders problem is that Clinton received millions more votes than him. It wouldn’t matter how early either candidate started lobbying super delegates. In the end, they will support whoever won the most pledged delegates.
In some big states like Florida, Texas,and ny…by alot
From the voters who chose Clinton over Sanders…