2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis myth - that the superdelegates can't be counted until July 25
was not followed in 2008. This was the media buying the spin from the Bernie Sanders camp. It was absolutely unfair to Hillary Clinton and has allowed Sanders to continue to unfairly disparage her when he should have conceded long ago.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The AP has ALWAYS called it when the candidate reaches the number of required delegates, Super Delegates included!
Hell, Mondale courted Super Delegates in order to be proclaimed the presumptive nominee in 1984 precisely so the AP would call it!
Gomez163
(2,039 posts)or she would have called bullshit long ago.
Mona
(135 posts)She has an indictment potentially looming, and emails about things like the TPP that she is being protected from. A number of her superdelegates committed when she was the only one in the race. As much as one year is similar to the next, they are also very dissimilar.
I'm not fooling myself, it's pretty apparent that H will be the Dem nominee. But it's bigger than that, it's about the lack of integrity of the election process that we've been going through this primary season. Knowing all that, I'll go today and proudly cast my vote for Bernie.......
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)obviously... any knucklehead knows you should never upset the apple cart with better ideas / process................ /sarcasm
HRC and her supporters make me laugh... they are the epitome of establishment and establishment thinking... reinforce the status quo