2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Where does a Hillary nomination lead? [View all]Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Would have to follow, no, that is not how it works. In fact the superdelegates are Democratic members of congress as well as other governors, etc. Since the super delegates has to be Democratic then states without full Democratic congressional members and states where the governor is Republican, they would lose votes. For Sanders to get the nomination he would need over 2360 delegates, it does not matter what form the delegates are. Now seriously what states do you expect him to get in order to get this number of delegates. As the polling nation wide is showing Clinton ahead of Sanders and only close in two states, and that is also changing, I hate to be ugly but it is not in the numbers. Even if the 713 super delegates voted for Sanders he would be less than 50%. So blaming or crying about the super delegates is not going to help Sanders. This is not meant to discourage Sanders and his supporters, it is just facts.