If recent polls showing Bernie's strengths against Trump...

[Joe the Revelator]

....and Hillary's inherent weakness don't sway super delegates, what is the point of having them?

Furthermore, if Bernie wins California and the convention isn't contested, what's the point of even having a convention?

[CrowCityDem]

1. Because those polls don't tell the whole story. There's no way those #s hold up under attack.

[Joe the Revelator]

4. I'd rather take the wildcard with the 15 point lead, then the known quantity who is losing to

Trump

[griffi94]

6. It's a good thing it's not up to you then.

Hillary wins because more voters voted for her.
Millions more.

[Joe the Revelator]

8. So nothing matters when it comes to nominating the strongest candidate? I refer you back..

....to my original question. If that is the case, why even have Super Delegates or a convention?

[griffi94]

9. What matters is who has the most delegates

If Bernie had the most pledged delegates...the SDs would vote for him.

As to why the party has them.
You'll have to ask the party.

In this instance they're only going to confirm what the
primaries and pledged delegates already show.

That Hillary was the preferred candidate of the majority.

[Joe the Revelator]

14. You're so shortsited

Do you want to win the GE or not? That's the only question that matters.

And again, if the SD's can't protect against a weak GE candidate, what purpose do they serve??

[yourpaljoey]

2. Now THOSE are some good questions

[Exilednight]

3. Debbie answered that. I paraphrase, but it went something like this

Super Delegates are part of the system to ensure a outside candidate doesn't win against the establishment.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. What a leader she is.

[pdsimdars]

12. There are so many other nouns that could be used instead of "leader" . . . . .

[Rex]

7. I cannot believe she is so stupid, as to admit that...and yet she did.

She also loves predatory capitalism and the system in which it is used to keep the working poor from any kind of upward mobility.

[workinclasszero]

10. They know its HS, we know its HS and you know its HS

Plus the supers have been harassed for months by berners callin them whores and a menace to democracy, not to mention the death threats.

I just don't think they are ready to unite with those folks, call me crazy I guess.

Bernie's done.

Put a fork in him.

[Joe the Revelator]

15. so they would rather make it personal then to stay in power?

What good are they?

Also, what is HS?

[workinclasszero]

17. HS equals Horsepoo

I would have used BS but....

[pdsimdars]

11. And as Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out in that video someone posted last week

He looked over Hillary's entire election history. . .all the polls for every race and pointed out that she starts out high in the polls and when she starts to sink, she has NEVER been able to turn that around. In the races she won, it was because her opponent didn't have time to catch up, they were going up and she was coming down and the election was over before they got ahead.

But Trump is already ahead of her and we aren't even at the GE yet.

Do people REALLY want a Dem in the WH? If so, you better start feeling the Bern and make him the nominee or it will be President Trump.

[Waiting For Everyman]

16. That did shock me, I never knew that about HRC before.

I saw the same program.

The supers exist to make sure that the Primary process doesn't choose a nominee who can't win the General Election -- exactly the situation we have now. They had better do their job this time, or there will be a problem -- Trump will win the WH. We will find out who is really concerned about Trump, and who is just trying to use fear of him to corral votes.

Her polls will probably continue to slip as O'Donnell showed, until the convention (when the supers vote), so the issue should be pretty clear to the SDs by then. Add to that, whenever the FBI chooses to weigh in, that will cause a further drop. If the FBI doesn't speak up beforehand, Trump will inform the public about it all, after we no longer have Bernie as a safety net.

Although it's a rough way to do it, we're about to find out if any of the Supers have character.

[pdsimdars]

18. I agree and I also had the idea that the FBI should be motivated to do it BEFORE the convention

Because at the convention Hillary may become the nominee, that means she could become the president. And, as president, she could get vengence on them for doing what they did and knowing what they know. She'd want to re-shuffle that whole deck of cards. So they need to do it to squelch her nomination. Let's hope.

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. Turn that around. The fact that superdelegates are supporting the weaker candidate...

... proves that the real point of them is something other than assuring we nominate an electable one.