2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: With The Maine Win Bernie Pulled In More Delegates Than HRC This Weekend = Media Silence [View all]TexasTowelie
(127,457 posts)Speaking of selective memory, you conveniently failed to mention that the reason why Obama reached the number of delegates in June to win the nomination was because his superdelegates were counted in the total (oops, we can't do that though because they aren't supposed to be counted until the convention). Obama had 1,828.5 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,726.5 pledged delegates. Without the superdelegates, Obama fell short of the 2,117 delegates necessary to win the nomination. It was only because he about a 230 superdelegate lead that Obama was able to clinch the nomination.
Do you actually believe that Clinton is going to release her superdelegates to Sanders considering that he is behind her in pledged delegates or that she would release them if Sanders only had a small lead in pledged delegates? Do you actually believe the superdelegates from states that Clinton won in the primary are going to go against the wishes of the voters in those states and switch over to Sanders? Nonsense--if they did then they probably won't be reelected the next time they appear on the ballot.
I still don't see where you addressed my question where Sanders is going to make up the 200 pledged delegate deficit either. Until you can address that question the rest of this discussion is hogwash.