Bernie Sanders

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:02 PM Jun 2015

Sanders Can Win the Democratic Presidential Primary — Here’s How

Principle 1: Pledged Delegates Are the Key

Hillary Clinton lost the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008 to Barack Obama by the thinnest of margins despite winning the popular vote because Obama won slightly more pledged delegates during the race than she did — 1,828.5 to her 1,726.5.

Pledged delegates are awarded to presidential contenders based on how well they do in the Democratic Party primaries and caucuses1 held in the country’s 435 Congressional districts as well as the District of Colombia and U.S. territories in a total of 57 contests. Clinton’s attempt to override the results of the process that gave Obama a slim majority of pledged delegates by appealing to current and former Democratic Party officeholders (the so-called superdelegates) failed. Superdelegates were not about to risk a fight on the convention floor with furious Obama supporters and throw the party into disarray on the eve of the general election campaign to make a winner out of a loser. As Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and superdelegate put it at the time: “If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.”

To become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee the way Obama did in 2008, Sanders needs to win approximately 1,885 pledged delegates2 — that is, 50% of all pledged delegates plus 1. The number of pledged and unpledged delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright is 2,242.

MORE: https://revolutionaryds.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/sanders-can-win-the-democratic-presidential-primary-heres-how/

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Sanders Can Win the Democratic Presidential Primary — Here’s How (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Jun 2015 OP

We need people to apply the same pressure, as they did against the TPP, it's orpupilofnature57 Jun 2015 #1

Bernie is really on fire MissDeeds Jun 2015 #2

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)

1. We need people to apply the same pressure, as they did against the TPP, it's

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:11 PM

Jun 2015

in essence the same thing, and he's the only one commited to halting the GRAB of our country .

MissDeeds

(7,499 posts)

2. Bernie is really on fire

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:36 PM

Jun 2015

It seems every day I read that a venue has to be changed because more people want to see him than had been anticipated. The more his message gets out, the more people will support him.

I really believe Hillary is vulnerable. There have been so many issues with her over the years; scandals or rumors of scandals, trust, honesty, transparency, hidden agendas, ties to Wall Street and the one percent, etc. ad nauseum. It seems she is always putting out a fire or deflecting accusations of one kind or another. She has baggage, much of it is of her own making.

Bernie is an open book - what you see is what you get. There is no hidden agenda. He doesn't have to rely on a focus group or consult with an army of advisors before taking a position. There is no position that is "evolving". He knows what he believes and is happy to tell you what it is. That kind of candor, coupled with a platform that voters have been longing for will serve him well in the months to come.

Don't count Bernie out.

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