2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Blew It [View all]LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)"But Sanders struck a different tone in 2008, when he told his hometown newspaper, the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, that he planned to play a very active role in supporting Obama.
I will do everything I can to see that he is elected president, he said at the time.
That interview was published on June 5, 2008, two days after the last Democratic contests but two days before Clinton suspended her campaign.
The story also noted that Sanders said he held off supporting either of the Democrats because he has made it a custom not to support any Democrat for the presidential nomination until the party had chosen its nominee.
At that point, however, Obama had 1,766.5 pledged delegates and Clinton had 1,639.5, according to data from RealClearPolitics. In 2008, 2,118 total delegates were required to secure the nomination. "
Sanders takes different position on superdelegates than he did in 2008
Now that it's his ox being gored, his position is "we don't have a nominee until the convention".