Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether

[StevieM]

304. Clinton also talked about what might be called the electoral college map.

Looking at the primaries and caucuses through the prism of the electoral college and what it would do in the GE.

And she brought up the popular vote too. I thought both were reasonable points to make.

Remember, there have only been so many elections since the people started choosing the nominee in 1972. Most have been decisive wins. And when Mondale took the nomination in 1984 nobody suggested that he was automatically entitled to the nomination because of a PD victory.

So the sampling size is very small.

In any event, 2008 made it perfectly clear that HRC would not get the nomination if she didn't win the PDs. Bernie was never in danger of that happening. This was nothing but an attempt to belittle Hillary's candidacy and to cultivate a narrative that she was the choice of the establishment, rather than the choice of the voters.

And it was Bernie who tried to get SDs to give him the nomination. Can you imagine the vitriol that would have been spewed against HRC in 2008 if she had stayed in the race a month after the voting stopped and Obama had been declared the winner? She was skewered for not letting it be known that she would be suspending her campaign until 20 hours after the voting had concluded.