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Related: About this forumIt’s Really Hard To Get Bernie Sanders 988 More Delegates
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-really-hard-to-get-bernie-sanders-988-more-delegates/After a trio of landslide wins in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii on Saturday the best single day of his campaign Bernie Sanders narrowed his delegate deficit with Hillary Clinton. But he still has a lot of work to do. Sanders trails Clinton by 228 pledged delegates and will need 988 more a bit under 57 percent of those available to finish with the majority.
That alone wouldnt be enough to assure Sanders of the nomination because superdelegates could still swing things Hillary Clintons way in a close race, but put aside that not-so-small complication for now. The much bigger problem is that it isnt easy to see where Sanders gets those 988 delegates.
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It’s Really Hard To Get Bernie Sanders 988 More Delegates (Original Post)
Iamaartist
Mar 2016
OP
Some of these required popular vote margins for Sanders are beyond ridiculous.
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#2
Don't you know, he is going to get all the Super Delegates to fly over to his side
liberal N proud
Mar 2016
#3
Eventually, Sanders will opine that the whole idea of delegates is undemocratic.
stopbush
Mar 2016
#4
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Arithmetic
And the way they have been harassing the super delegates I doubt they will turn coat.
CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)2. Some of these required popular vote margins for Sanders are beyond ridiculous.
Not a single delegate target for Sanders has gone down. With only 2 exceptions (which remained the same), they've all gone up the closer we get to the end.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)3. Don't you know, he is going to get all the Super Delegates to fly over to his side
A little birdie told him how to do it.
stopbush
(24,392 posts)4. Eventually, Sanders will opine that the whole idea of delegates is undemocratic.
We'd be much better served picking candidates based on how many re-tweets they get and how many unregistered "voters" show up at their rallies. If there's a tie, well, we then see which candidate had the most birds land on their podium during a stump speech.
It's the 21st century. We should be taking a more-scientific approach to the way we pick candidates.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,711 posts)5. Come one now
Don't you know Nate Silver has already been thrown under the Bernie bus?