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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Should this be the last time we have superdelegates? [View all]InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,125 posts)44. Nope... nor will I miss Hillary's establishment politics. You hear her latest lie that Bernie has not had one negative ad run against him?
DWS had only exacerbated the situation. Can't wait til she packs her bags, and hightails out outta town, once Bernie raps this thing up.
He's got a lot of cleaning up to do... can't come soon enough!
Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
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Nope... nor will I miss Hillary's establishment politics. You hear her latest lie that Bernie has not had one negative ad run against him?
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2016
#44
lol, tomorrow morning would not be soon enough! DWS has become a parody of herself and a liability to the Democratic Party.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2016
#50
Interesting viewpoint when 63% of Americans support a $15 minimum wage in 4 years
Ash_F
May 2016
#34
Not fringe at all, I agree. But it wasn't superdelegates who prevented him from winning.
randome
May 2016
#35
You just argued both sides of the argument. And you accuse others of living in fantasy land?
Exilednight
May 2016
#54
The poster I was responding to there described Bernie's campaign as a "hostile takeover attempt"
Ken Burch
May 2016
#53
In the last 25 years, it's been mostly impossible to be a progressive within this party,
Ken Burch
May 2016
#61
Meh. I like the institution having an emergency brake. We should have fewer of them, though
Recursion
May 2016
#4
You're wrong about the idea behind the superdelegates, at least according to DWS.
Scuba
May 2016
#21
DWS didn't create them; they were from a panel Jim Hunt of NC chaired in 1982
Recursion
May 2016
#23
If she gets the most votes fairly she deserves the nomination. I've never suggested differently.
Scuba
May 2016
#40
I think that there should be small number of seats reserved for party leaders. The input of people
Tal Vez
May 2016
#8
Well, since we've never come close to having anyone remotely similar to Trump as our nominee...
Ken Burch
May 2016
#24
In 2008 Obama needed 2117 delegates to win, he had 1828 1/2 pledged delegates (majority of pledged)
andym
May 2016
#58
The ONLY reason for their existence is to protect the party elite from The Proles.
cherokeeprogressive
May 2016
#19
The 2016 campaign for POTUS has raised my awareness of the issue of super-delegates.
PufPuf23
May 2016
#25
What if super delegates could not vote on the first ballot at the convention?
House of Roberts
May 2016
#29