Posted on 03/22/2016 5:42:11 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Bernie Sanders is far behind Hillary Clinton in the delegate count toward the Democratic presidential nomination, but part of his strategy is to hold out hope that superdelegates will back him at the convention.
What are superdelegates? They’re roughly 700 party officials and other high-profile Democrats who get to vote on nominees at the convention. In theory, they could swing a tight race to one candidate or another.
The vast majority of superdelegates have said they will back Clinton, according to news reports. But Sanders has suggested that in states where he won by double-digit margins, superdelegates should vote according to the wishes of people in their states.
That led to Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo asking Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her take on superdelegates.
Wasserman Schultz countered that superdelegates aren’t so powerful, according to history.
"The purpose of superdelegates -- which by the way, have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since they've been in place since 1984 -- is to make sure that party activists who want to be delegates to the convention don’t have to run against much better-known and well-established people at the district level," said the South Florida congresswoman.
Have superdelegates not mattered since they were introduced in 1984? It’s clear that in elections after 1984 they were never needed to settle a nomination. However, they did play a role in 1984, although experts are conflicted about the extent of their power.
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So if super delegates just don’t really matter, then why have super delegates in the first place???
Does a designated someone email Debbie telling her to breathe? Blink her eyes so they don’t dry out? Not to stare at the sun?
Diarrhea mouth Debbie at it again.
Does Debbie remember 1968?
Just to make sure, in case people don’t believe what television tells them.
Lol, tell that to Hillary, wench.
I am confused about Bernie. I always thought he was an Independent as in Sanders, SEN VT(I). How can he run as a democrap? Maybe this is the democrap strategy. Clinton wins the nomination because all of the delegates for Sanders are null and void because he is not a democrap. Something like that would not surprise me.
From what I’ve read, Burney has met the various state requirements to be listed as a Democrat in the primary elections he’s been in.
Maybe so....but rules can change at the democrap convention just like the Republican Convention. Rules, regulations, and bylaws don't apply to crime families.
DWS lies again.
In their current form, the superdelegates determined the nominee in 1984. The vote was Mondale 2191 to Hart 1201.
1943 were needed to nominate.
There is no way Mondale would have gotten the nomination without the superdelegates.
Had the superdelegates stuck by Hillary in 2008, she would have gotten the nomination. By June 13, 2008, 463 superdelegates had declared support for Obama. Before the primaries a majority supported Hillary.
She released her delegates, so the floor vote wasn’t all that close.
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