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randome

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3. If superdelegates are only allowed to vote for the 'winner', they are nothing but robots.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 07:11 AM
Mar 2016

The entire point of Sanders' campaign from this point forward is to sway superdelegates to vote for only him. Now you feign outrage that superdelegates will be allowed to vote for someone you don't personally accept?

Free will is a 2-way street.

Of course the majority of superdelegates will vote for the candidate that has more loyalty and connections within the Democratic Party, instead of the late-joiner who thinks poorly of them. Sanders can have a voice and help move the party back to the left but, really, he can't just join and then expect everyone to do what he says.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)
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