the AP may have just helped ban superdelegates

[geek tragedy]

just to be clear, they reported that what put Clinton over the top for the nomination were unnamed party officials who had non-public agreements with one of the candidates to vote for her at the convention.


the existence of these agreements is something that happens with every prominent candidate in every Democratic presidential primary.

But, there's something very unseemly about putting them on the scoreboard before there's even been published notice--including the superdelegates' names--that they've made that commitment.

If they haven't even gone public with it, it doesn't count as points on the board.

So, shitty of the AP to manufacture news like this, on the other hand if they helped get rid of superdelegates, good.

[Trust Buster]

1. Banned Super delegates ? Oh the drama.....LOL

[Barack_America]

2. Where or where could the AP have gotten this information?

Which campaign could have possibly put the AP in touch with these elusive supers, unable to be reached for comment until today?

[Else You Are Mad]

3. Sadly...

It is mostly public knowledge if one digs deep enough.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. More dirty tricks... surely we can do better!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[thesquanderer]

6. Or they could have just checked wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2016

Their identities are not secret.

[Barack_America]

8. And the AP knew just the ones to call.

Just the ones that were ready to commit...today.

Uh huh.

[thesquanderer]

11. That page also tells you which ones haven't publicly committed.

It doesn't take long to have a few people call them. And they don't have to call everyone... as soon as they called enough to get 23 (or whatever the number was) new people saying Yes to Clinton, they were done.

[TriplD]

12. Some of those cite endorsements from early 2015

Some people change their minds. Did the AP poll these people or pull from that?

[msongs]

5. must be the same place the OP claims to know this information....unsourced nt

[Joe the Revelator]

9. You guys have NO loyalty.

Not even to each other.

[geek tragedy]

13. What am I claiming to know?

They're calling the race based on superdelegate commitments the campaign hasn't announced.

There aren't enough public superdelegate commitments to clinch the nomination.

QED.

[gopiscrap]

7. I sure as fucking hope so

in fact I think if you hold any office higher than a neighborhood level position you should not be allowed to be a delegate

[Maru Kitteh]

10. That would be a good thing. I don't think the D party should have "Supers"

It would be a good thing to have them gone.