If 3/4th of Hillary's superdelagates

[lancer78]

suddenly switched to Sanders, she would only lead him by 8 or so delegates (pledged and super).

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. You think that's going to happen?

[quantumjunkie]

11. it did in 2008

[NuclearDem]

2. Why exactly would 3/4 of her superdelegates do so?

[panader0]

4. The real question is why would they back her in the first place?

[NuclearDem]

5. Because she's been a member of the party for decades

and has been consistently leading in pledged delegates and popular vote.

So, again, what would make them all of a sudden ignore all of that and switch to Sanders?

[lancer78]

8. Because these folks are mostly elected officials.

If there was enough grassroots movement for Sanders, voters might pressure them enough to not support Clinton. I think everyone needs to vote before the SUPERS try to make the race look like a forgone conclusion. I think that Hillary is just getting votes because people think she is going to win anyway, so why support a loser?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. lol! math win

[TDale313]

6. That's a big if.

Bernie really needs to overtake her in Pledged delegates to make his case. I'm suspecting many of the supers who haven't declared are leaning Bernie cause the easy thing up til now would have been to go for Hillary. If he gets the majority of pledged and a number of the undeclared supers come out for him others formerly for Hillary may break ranks and come over. That's the most likely path for Bernie.

[lancer78]

7. Also, as of right now

If the Supers only went for the person who won their state instead of choosing whomever they wanted, Sanders would only trail by 417 total delegates.

[sadoldgirl]

9. The question comes up then:

How many SD are running for reelection and in which
states?

There may quite a number of them, who would be
immune from their decision to stay with HRC.

[RobertEarl]

10. I say we take them all, now

They will all be Bernie voters anyway, so let's just do it. How many does that give us?