DNC Communications Director: Superdelegates "are likely to change their minds" on who to vote for" !

[imagine2015]

Luis Miranda, Communications Director, Democratic National Committee


Luis Miranda also said CNN and other media should not include the super delegates in the vote totals before the convention because they have not voted and can change their minds before the convention.

[DrDan]

1. Nothing wrong with knowing how they are leaning

[imagine2015]

3. I agree. But, several hundred indicated their leanings before Hillary even announced her candidacy

And right now more than 150 super delegates have not indicated a preference.

So it will be a contested convention that could go either way since neither candidate will not have enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination.

[CrowCityDem]

5. A 'contested' convention is where no one wins on the first ballot. Hillary will, ergo not contested.

[tom-servo]

19. No, I think that's a brokered convention...

...[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention|

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Jeff Merkley sure sounds like he will switch:

Sanders' lone Senate backer says he should drop out before convention if he's losing

Bernie Sanders' lone supporter in the Senate said Thursday that the Vermont senator should end his presidential campaign if he's losing to Hillary Clinton after the primary season concludes in June, breaking sharply with the candidate who is vowing to take his insurgent bid to the party convention in Philadelphia.

In an interview with CNN, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley argued that the party should be united heading into the July convention. And that if Sanders has no viable path to the nomination after the final round of primaries in June, he should concede to Clinton at that point. He said that Sanders should follow the model employed by Clinton in 2008, who dropped out in June of that year and pledged her support to Barack Obama.

"Secretary Clinton, then senator, said, 'OK, I had the discussion across America. I'm ready to pivot and work together.' And Obama reached out, and she reached out, and that should be a model for us to follow," Merkley said outside of the Capitol on Thursday. "I think after California, June 7, is about the time it would be appropriate -- all states will have weighed in by then. It will then give them five weeks to work together" before the convention.

more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/bernie-sanders-jeff-merkley-endorsement/

[imagine2015]

4. He's worried about retaliation from the bureaucratic party establishment if he doesn't bow down.

The Hillary surrogates and media commentators are getting very nasty with Bernie and his supporters using "swiftboating" character assassination slanders and "dirty tricks"on behalf of their former Senator from Wall Street.

That's how they operate.

They clearly don't appreciate much less practice democratic methods and norms.

Look at how they operated at the Nevada convention.

[grasswire]

6. look how they operated in 2008

This is what she does. Clawing, scrabbling, twisting arms, threatening. And keeping an enemies list.

[SFnomad]

12. You would think you were at RedState or Free Republic, reading so many posts like this n/t

[SharonClark]

17. They're just projecting

[DrDan]

11. He's worried about the vile messages from the bros

[bahrbearian]

13. He's more worried about getting smacked around by Wendell Pierce

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. The purpose of the superdelegates were to be essentially a tiebreaker should it become necessary

Not to announce their preference a year before the convention to handicap and discourage all potential opponents.

I'm going to actively work against all elected SD's who did, which means basically every single elected official on my ballot, congressman or above.

[SFnomad]

14. Sore loser, eh? n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. You're welcome to think so. I prefer "activist" or "voter". n/t

[Wednesdays]

16. The role of the superdelegates

is also to prevent a hijacking of the nomination process by an absolute lunatic or GOP plant.
And Sanders is definitely neither.

[ucrdem]

8. LOL, he's got that right.

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. He should have said that at the beginning of the Primary.

It's good that he did it now, but he's a little late after those phony numbers have misled so many people who might've voted differently.

The ignorance of news people is shocking. They should know this on their own research.

[Uncle Joe]

10. And yet CNN always includes the Super delegates in their totals even though they have been warned

not to.

This has been a continuous propaganda ploy; by the corporate media conglomerates such as CNN particularly used on primary or caucus days/nights to influence or discourage the actual voters.

Thanks for the thread, imagine2015.

[imagine2015]

18. And also most of the other corporate media.

[imagine2015]

20. For weekend DU'ers