Dispelling the Superdelegate Myth
As we've seen, there have been differing opinions about how the superdelegates should be allocated, even differing philosophies from the Sanders campaign and their followers from time to time.
Currently, they are permitted to vote the way they choose. At one point the Sanders campaign claimed that they should vote for the candidate who won their particular state. Then that changed to the claim that they should vote in proportion to the delegates earned in their particular state.
So, with this in mind, here is the way the superdelegates would vote based on all three, let's call them, theories:
Winner Take All (candidate winning a state gets them all):
Clinton - 247, Sanders - 124, Clinton +123
Proportional to delegates earned:
Clinton - 203, Sanders - 183, Clinton +20
Currently:
Clinton - 417, Sanders - 39, Clinton +345
Clinton would still have more superdelegates in each of the two proposals made by the Sanders campaign. Inasmuch as she also will have a majority of pledged delegates, there is no possible way that she would not have a majority of all delegates - pledged plus superdelegates.
The bottom line is sometime next Tuesday night Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Nominee.
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