It’s Really Hard To Get Bernie Sanders 988 More Delegates

[Iamaartist]

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 wouldn’t be enough to assure Sanders of the nomination because superdelegates could still swing things Hillary Clinton’s way in a close race, but put aside that not-so-small complication for now. The much bigger problem is that it isn’t easy to see where Sanders gets those 988 delegates.

[Iliyah]

1. Arithmetic

And the way they have been harassing the super delegates I doubt they will turn coat.

[CalvinballPro]

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]

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]

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]

5. Come one now

Don't you know Nate Silver has already been thrown under the Bernie bus?