Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:47 AM

quickesst (6,207 posts)

Super delegates- the irony

Got to go into work now, but just thought I would drop this off here.

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Ironically, Tad Devine, Sanders' top adviser, who was instrumental in the creation of the superdelegate process, defended their existance.

"It's pretty hard to win a nomination in a contested race and almost impossible to win without the superdelegeates," Devine said in 2008 in an interview on NPR.

Now, Devine's boss, who is running on an anti-establishment message is losing the superdelegate race.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/super-delegates-center-democratic-nomination-fight-again-n516891

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6 replies	Author	Time	Post
Super delegates- the irony (Original post)	quickesst	Feb 2016	OP
K&R!	stonecutter357	Feb 2016	#1
Got time for one more	quickesst	Feb 2016	#2
There is no conspiracy theory so ridiculous	72DejaVu	Feb 2016	#4
We are Bern.	kjones	Feb 2016	#6
It isn't the existence of the SDs that most object to	FBaggins	Feb 2016	#3
Something to bookmark and bring out again at the appropriate time.	Cha	Feb 2016	#5

Response to quickesst (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:49 AM

stonecutter357 (12,401 posts)

1. K&R!

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Response to stonecutter357 (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:55 AM

quickesst (6,207 posts)

2. Got time for one more

"Fun fact: Tad Devine, a key Sanders advisor, is credited as the person who helped create the superdelegate system. So, that in and of itself sort of nullifies the idiocy of this “conspiracy.” It’s rather ridiculous to claim a “conspiracy against Sanders” based upon a system that one of his top advisors created and defended."

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Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:58 AM

72DejaVu (1,545 posts)

4. There is no conspiracy theory so ridiculous

That the Bern Borg won't believe it.

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Response to 72DejaVu (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 01:13 PM

kjones (1,051 posts)

6. We are Bern.

Your conspiratorial distinctiveness will be added to our own.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

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Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:57 AM

FBaggins (24,796 posts)

3. It isn't the existence of the SDs that most object to

It's the claim that their votes can be apportioned now - before most actual voting occurs.

Their real value comes at a brokered convention, not early in the primary season.

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Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:39 AM

Cha (277,620 posts)

5. Something to bookmark and bring out again at the appropriate time.

Thanks quickesst!

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