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Superdelegates are bad, but they used to be good, and they'll be good again if they vote for him at the Convention.
BY JACK HOLMES
Bernie Sanders doesn't like superdelegates. Neither do members of Bernie's staff, nor Bernie's legions of supporters. Superdelegates are unelected, unaccountable, undemocratic. These party elites, who get to vote however they want, shouldn't be counted in assessments of the Democratic primary race. Superdelegates "don't count until they vote, and they don't vote until we get to the convention," Bernie's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said on CNN last month.
But, as The Hill reminds us, Sanders didn't always sing the same tune. On June 5, 2008—two days after the last state voted, but before Hillary Clinton dropped out—Sanders pledged his support to then-Senator Barack Obama in an interview with The Burlington Free-Press. The Vermont senator had customarily held off endorsing anyone, the paper explained, until the party had chosen a nominee.
Except that Obama was not yet the nominee.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a45267/bernie-sanders-superdelegates/
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TwilightZone
(25,429 posts)I do suspect, however, that it will play a small role in how he handles the next couple days.
Personally, I think he's going to concede, perhaps as early as tomorrow. If not then, after DC votes next week.
If he doesn't, it's going to look rather hypocritical.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)will do anything, say anything, throw all standards and their avowed love of the sacred vote and will of the people right out the f***in window in pursuit of RAW POLITICAL POWER!
F***IN hypocrites!
TwilightZone
(25,429 posts)forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Why did the DNC protect him so long?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thinking he would run a fair campaign. A real democrat would have dropped out after NY at the latest.
But Bernie stays in to do maximum damage to Hillary and the party he has hated his whole life!
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Why did the DNC stop anyone from challenging him? Why did they actually fund his campaigns? I mean he had Hillary AND Obama campaign for him. The "Establishment" has given him a free ride for decades.
TwilightZone
(25,429 posts)He talks a big game about "both sides are bad" but does generally tend to side with the Dems most of the time, so the DNC puts up with it essentially for the numbers.
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)I think the Dems are going to have to put a lot of work into voter education, especially with my generation; we have a lot of information but most of it is trash because clickbaity outrage shit makes more money than actual civics.
TwilightZone
(25,429 posts)We've had one candidate spend half of the campaign broad-brushing all but a tiny fraction of Dems as right-wing narcissists, and his supporters hammered out the same nonsense for months. Voters have short memories, but it's still going to require some effort to remind people that there's a big difference between mainstream Dems and mainstream Republicans.
Luckily, we have Donald Trump available as a visual aid.
puffy socks
(1,473 posts)is different than a senator saying he supports a candidate.
and that it was after the primaries were over
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)puffy socks
(1,473 posts)The BoBers can justify anything. I don't see much difference between them and a cult like Scientology because this has been going on since way before anyone was upset at losing. They started this kind of hypocritical stuff and the vitriol when Bernie entered the race. 
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Its never going to end.
