Bernie Sanders will still be the Democratic Nominee

[dreamnightwind]

40. Uh, did you understood the poster's point?

I think the popular vote point is far more complicated, and we don''t laugh at it.

With many states having caucuses (I wish they didn't), there is no real way to properly weight those in any popular vote total. You can attempt to extrapolate to the state's voting population using ratios from the caucuses, but that isn't accurate, you don't know how many would vote in a non-caucus election nor do you know if they would vote proportionately to the caucus results.

It is even less accurate to only use the caucus totals, since caucus totals are far less than popular vote totals, given the nature of caucuses, so a win in a popular vote state would get weighted far heavier than a win in a similar-sized caucus state.

It's the Democratic Party itself that laughs at the popular vote. Hence the super-delegates. The one thing the party gets right, IMO, is proportionately allocating delegates, rather than the winner-takes-all model.