Superdelegates put Barack Obama over the top over Hillary in 2008.

[boston bean]

He had more pledged delegates. People said that was all that mattered and the superdelegates were representing the will of the voters.

Now we have some self righteous man, who wants to claim the opposite this time around. And void 3 million voters and hundreds more pledged delegates, cause he thinks he deserves it?

I sense a pattern. A double standard. Sexism.

[NurseJackie]

1. You are correct.

[Trust Buster]

2. Playing "the victim" is their comfort zone.

[CrowCityDem]

3. This whole campaign has been Bernie stomping his feet and claiming he's special.

[BobbyDrake]

4. You are wrong...

It's WAAAAAY more than 3 million voters that Bernie Sanders wants to give a middle finger. More like 13 million, in fact.

[boston bean]

5. That is another, absolutely truthful way to look at it!

Thanks!

[thesquanderer]

6. Sexism is the only possible explanation?

In a sample size of two events, there are many possible reasons for different perspectives or outcomes. If the shoe were on the other foot and Bernie was ahead with resistant opposition, would any objection to granting him the nomination automatically be evidence of anti-semitism? Could it be nothing else?

Also, the double standard you speak of only potentially applies specifically to people who took that position about super delegates for Obama in 2008--before even the last primaries had occurred--and are taking the opposite position with Bernie today.

[R B Garr]

7. The superdelegate total difference is yuuuuuge. It's not even worthy of a discussion, that's how

large the difference. Sanders only has 46 (or so) compared to her HUNDREDS. That stat was just on a CNN crawler. He barely has 10% compared to her 90%. His dancing on the head of a pin about this is just absurd, phony, and desperate.

[R B Garr]

8. Oh, and more BS from BS: Hillary had to unite the party in 2008 after Obama clinched, and

Sanders is now saying she has to do that again as the winner. So for both her loss and her win, it's HER responsibility to unite everyone. Sanders can just sit back now after all the chaos he's created and put it all on her. Double standards again!

[Gothmog]

9. It is appropriate to count super delegates

This has been done in every other race since the creation of super delegates.

?1464552977

?1464620111

?1464554531

?1464555844

?1464621209

?1464616682

History is a good thing and Sanders does not get special treatment that is different from all past contested democratic primaries