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rachacha

(173 posts)
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:14 PM Mar 2016

Latest 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!

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rock

(13,218 posts)
3. If you don't understand the rules
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:30 PM
Mar 2016

of a process, maybe you should try silence. Welcome to DU, enjoy your stay.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
8. Viva did read it, as did I. You simply are either not good with the language or don't understand
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:41 PM
Mar 2016

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)
9. Current Superdelegates
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:55 PM
Mar 2016

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)
11. That is a fallacious statement
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:20 PM
Mar 2016

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).

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
17. I do worry about their honesty a bit, considering how easily corrupted ppl are these days in DC $$$$
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 10:31 AM
Apr 2016

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)
6. The posters words are true, so apparently he/she understands the rules better than you
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 10:38 PM
Mar 2016

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)
10. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Bill Clinton is going to vote for Hillary.
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:00 PM
Mar 2016

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)
15. He didn't in 2008
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 10:10 AM
Apr 2016

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)
18. In 2008 Hillary dropped out 2 months before the convention.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 12:15 PM
Apr 2016

Of course he voted for Obama, he was the only one running.

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