Posted on 2/22/2016, 10:21:44 PM by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indiana Democratic primary is still more than two months away, but some supporters of Bernie Sanders are already on the attack.
They're using email to attack Hillary Clinton supporters.
Indiana will have 92 delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Eighty-three of them will be chosen in the May primary and they must support the winner.
Nine of them are super delegates who are free to support either candidate. They include Cordelia Lewis-Burks, who plans to support Hillary Clinton.
"You and the rest of the super delegates are making a huge mistake," Lewis-Burks reads from an email sent to her by a Bernie Sanders supporter.
She's received more than a dozen such emails in recent days. The messages are personal.
"Well, I've been called some terrible names and derogatory names as far as race is concerned," said Lewis-Burks, who is African American.
The Sanders supporters who are sending the emails believe their candidate could win a majority of primary votes and yet lose the Democratic nomination because of the super delegates.
Lewis-Burks shared some of the more mild messages. "I am appalled that you think you can ignore the will of the people," says one.
"You might as well be a Republican," said another. "And, yes, that is an insult," Lewis-Burks added.
"You have been bought and sold by the Democratic Party just like Hillary has been," another email reads.
Another suggests that voting for Clinton is "throwing your vote away."
Lewis-Burks, who is vice chair of the Indiana Democratic Party, says she stopped responding to the attacking emails.
"There is a way to win friends and influence people and this is certainly not the way," she said.
Some of them are coming from Indiana voters, but most are coming from outside the state.
Lewis-Burks does not believe the Sanders campaign is behind the emails.
A majority of super delegates, both here and around the country, are committed to Hillary Clinton.
The Sanders Xbox generation I guess think being loud on the internet from your mom’s sofa is all that’s required to get their candidate elected. LOL
Hillary is getting upwards of 90% of the Super Delegates
I agree with them. Super-delegates are about as democratic as an Imelda Marcos shoe closet.
But it is your party bozo-beans. You bought it!
See, Hoosiers like Razorbacks and assorted others like Mrs. Bill too.
I think their might be 2 of them in my county.
"Well, I've been called some terrible names and derogatory names as far as race is concerned," said Lewis-Burks, who is African American.My ass.
I really hope HilRod gets the nomination. The best part will be watching liberals crying and cutting themselves the day she is finally done in politics.
The fix is in for Hillary. Bernie must know that.
Are these super delegates like the NH super delegates, they are people in office who are given a vote and they are extra votes not population votes? Or at least this is how I understood the explanation regarding the extra votes in NH. Sounds like cheater votes to me, but what do I know.
if Hillary wins because of super delegates and losses the popular vote you will see the biggest revolt in the democratic party ever....I was at a party of a Kool aid drinking supporter and when I mentioned super-delegates there was an expectation on the sanders supporters that the delegates would abandon Hillary at the convention.
if Hillary wins because of super delegates and losses the popular vote you will see the biggest revolt in the democratic party ever....I was at a party of a Kool aid drinking supporter and when I mentioned super-delegates there was an expectation on the sanders supporters that the delegates would abandon Hillary at the convention.
Pretty soon now “The Bern” is going to find out that the deck is stacked and no matter how he plays his cards Hillary will have the last ace.
The appearance is that blacks are for Hillary, and Bernie is very popular among white college students. This may lead to some interesting confrontation if Bernie wins the popular vote, but appears to be about to lose the nomination at the Dem convention, due to super delegates.
Invest in popcorn futures.
I beg your pardon.
Indiana is mostly a conservative state. Sure we have dingbats. So does every other state. Some more than others.
In New Hampshire super delegates were worth about 10,450 individual voters. As a result Hillary started out with a nearly 63,000 vote advantage.
It’s like Ohio in the general election starting out over 100,000 votes down because of Cleveland.
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