Bernie Sanders supporters push for Wisconsin superdelegates to be 'neutralized'

[portlander23]

Bernie Sanders supporters push for Wisconsin superdelegates to be 'neutralized'
Jessie Opoien
The Capital Times

Members of the state's Better With Bernie group said Wednesday they plan to push for a vote at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin convention this weekend to direct superdelegates to give six votes to the Vermont senator and four votes to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sanders earned 57 percent of the vote in Wisconsin's April 5 primary to Clinton's 43 percent.

Even if such a resolution were to pass, the party's 10 superdelegates would not be bound to follow it.

Davis acknowledged that, but said superdelegates would be smart to follow the will of the voters.

Of Wisconsin's 10 superdelegates, six have pledged their votes to Clinton. Three remain unpledged, and one — state Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee — is pledged to Sanders.

We passed something similar to this in Maine, though there was no attempt to make it binding in 2016 because that's just not how it works. I think it will be telling how the Democratic Party choses to respond to the Sanders campaign and the progressive movement - will they make the process more democratic, or will Sanders' success cause them to lock things down even more?

[NurseJackie]

1. This won't matter much, will it? I remember seeing ...

... some data that showed Hillary easily and soundly winning the nomination even IF the supers were allocated based on the ratio of each state's win/loss numbers.

[msongs]

2. blatant power grab, Hillary should 4.3 of delegates and bernie 5.7 delegates or it is fraud :-)

[CrowCityDem]

3. More sore losing, trying to change the rules in the middle. Sad.