2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLatest superdelegate tally: Clinton 0, Sanders 0.
Everybody knows the superdelegates won't register their actual binding votes until the convention, right?
Wisconsin, Wyoming, and New York, you're up next and guess what? Your vote still counts!
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)All the kewel kidz haz superdelegates.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)of a process, maybe you should try silence. Welcome to DU, enjoy your stay.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)The op is correct.
rock
(13,218 posts)Read my post.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)the rules yourself, did you mean to say something other than what you posted? If you did, that's fine and forgivable and you have a chance now to enlighten us.
rock
(13,218 posts)Clinton: 469
Sanders: 31
By rachacha's logic we may as well say that both candidates have 0 delegates and 0 super delegates.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Clinton does not "have" any super delegates yet, nor does Sanders, they have not yet voted, the current unpledged delegate vote count is in fact zero, the same is not true of the pledged delegates, they have voted and there votes are already real. The unpledged delegates have more in common with Schrödinger's cat at this point than they do with actual voted and counted delegates. WE will not know if the "cat" is dead or alive until their actual votes are observed (or the box containing the cat is opened).
rock
(13,218 posts)Enter "primary delegate count"
Choose Democratic
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I guess you got nothing to worry about. Congrats!
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)plus so many of them are lobbyists now (weird right?) you would think that would be illegal. I guess corporations ARE people, and are even appointed delegates to vote for them now.
I only worry, that unlike it is meant to be, and has been since they were around (I was in the party before them by the way) that come convention time their support as is usual, will change to mirror the votes of the constituents in areas they represent.
It is not mandatory they do so, they can all vote Donald Duck if they want to, but if they don't, golly, everyone will know that the Democratic party isn't even democratic small "d" anymore and the party will just go crazy and many will leave it entirely, or we may possibly have another 1968 on our hands
(if you are too young to remember, that was a bad thing, lots were hurt physically and the party was badly damaged)
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Did you think they had already voted for her?
None of them actually vote until the convention, you need to brush up on those rules you incorrectly correct others on
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)So you have to admit, Hillary does have at least one super delegate locked down.
And the others that have pledged to her, and not likely to switch anytime soon.
A few might switch one way or the other, but not a few hundred.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)On the slight chance Sanders wins a majority of pledged delegates, he will not vote for her in 2016 either (I mean, possibly symbolically on the first ballot).
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Of course he voted for Obama, he was the only one running.